IN THIS ISSUE:

Ø	Feature Story: Season's Greetings
Ø	Tech Tips: Take your year-end count with ACCTivate!
Ø	Featured Add-on: Shopping Cart Interface Module
Ø	Doings@ACCTivate!: Happy Holidays from the ACCTivate! Team
Ø	Releases & Updates: ACCTivate! 6.3.1 update

Alterity, Inc. wishes you, your staff and families a safe and

wonderful holiday. On the brink of a new year, we look forward to continuing business with those of you who are our customers and hopefully starting new business with those of you who are our prospects.

We will continue to improve upon and enhance ACCTivate! in 2008 and in the years to follow as technology continues to evolve and we continue to do our best to meet the needs of the most important part of our business - you our customers and prospects.

This past year marked many milestones for ACCTivate!. ACCTivate! 6.2 was released in the beginning of 2007 as one of the largest ACCTivate! releases ever in terms of the dozens of new features, enhancements and technical corrections.

Then in the middle of the year, we had another successful users conference with ACCTivation! 2007. There were some new training classes introduced and a great turnout.

We ended the year with another release in late October - ACCTivate! 6.3, which has already introduced updates in ACCTivate! 6.3.1.

Thank you for all your feedback and comments this year and we look forward to starting another year with your business.

Sincerely,

Ron Souder
Alterity, Inc. CEO, President

Holiday schedule for the Alterity offices

In observance of the holiday season, the Alterity offices will be closed for the following periods:

Customer Service Requests
Customers that require technical assistance during one of the days listed below may fill out an online support request form (follow the instructions) or leave a voice message on the ACCTivate! support line at 1-866-877-1311.  Requests submitted during this time will be reviewed when our offices reopen.

Take your year-end count with ACCTivate!

Inventory Count feature helps you take control of your warehouse operations

With 2007 coming to an end, it's time for annual inventory counts and ACCTivate! is by your side to help you with this task. ACCTivate! provides you with a printable count sheet of your inventory within minutes. After you count your inventory enter it in the system and ACCTivate! will adjust your inventory accordingly and provide a variance report.

The procedure flow for performing inventory counts in ACCTivate!

Doing inventory counts the ACCTivate! mobile way
If you have the ACCTivate! Mobile Inventory Management module running on your mobile device, inventory counts are a breeze.

There is no need for paper printouts, when you have your count sheet on your mobile device and if you have a built-in or plug-in barcode scanner your time-savings will skyrocket and your count will less likely be affected by human error.

How do I perform inventory counts?

ACCTivate! is here to help.

Just CLICK HERE for the steps on how to perform inventory counts.

Follow the instructions and you will feel some of the burdens of year-end counting lifting off your shoulders.

For steps on performing inventory counts on your mobile device refer to the help files in in the Inventory Management Module > Inventory Count feature from your mobile device.

ACCTivate! is here to help during the season of year-end inventory counts

Now you can start 2008 with an accurate inventory count in the system. The above steps can also be followed for cycle-counting during the year.

We look forward to starting a new year with you and having ACCTivate! be a part of your business for 2008 and years to come.

Shopping Cart Interface Module

Import orders from your shopping cart

It is clear that allowing customers to place orders via the Internet can save you time and expense compared to traditional methods of order placement.

However, because of the differences between a website (even a database driven website) and a full inventory and distribution system, moving information between your website and your business management system has always proved to be difficult.

ACCTivate! Shopping Cart Interface Module

However, ACCTivate! has a solution for this problem. Our Shopping Cart Interface module has been designed to work with just about any website shopping cart with an order export option and a general import option. This allows you to run both systems as you currently are (or develop a new website) and transfer information back and forth when needed.

How does it work?

The process is actually very simple.

1. Your customer enters an order on your existing website shopping cart.
2. You export those orders into a file that you move into ACCTivate!.
3. ACCTivate! reads that file and automatically turns your web orders into full sales orders.

The procedure flow for importing orders from your website's shopping cart and turning each into a new sales order in ACCTivate!.

The amount of information that is contained in the order is determined by the amount of information that exists in your website shopping cart. You can then process these orders with your distribution and order fulfillment procedures.

Moreover, our Shopping Cart Interface module also provides you with the ability to export customer and product information from ACCTivate! that you can import back into your shopping cart system.

The benefit of this is clear. Your website shopping cart system can be developed with customer login and password information (stored in ACCTivate!), product information, prices, and just about any information that exists in ACCTivate!.

Season's Greetings from the ACCTivate! staff

The entire ACCTivate! team would like to thank you for your business in 2007 and wish you and your staff and families a festive holiday season and a happy 2008.

ACCTivate! 6.3.1 update

ACCTivate! 6.3.1 update is now available to download

The ACCTivate! 6.3.1 update was recently released early this month for QuickBooks and CYMA users. It includes a few new features, improvements and technical corrections since ACCTivate! 6.3 that are designed to provide a better user experience.

For CYMA users, the update is compatible with the newly released CYMA 10.

For QuickBooks users, the update includes new features that allow credit card information to be stored in ACCTivate! (see details below).

Store credit card information in ACCTivate! 6.3.1 (QuickBooks users only)
With the release of QuickBooks 2008/8.0, Intuit no longer allows third party applications, such as ACCTivate!, access to credit card information stored in QuickBooks (This issue does not affect earlier versions of QuickBooks.).
Click here to read the full story

Therefore to resolve this issue, ACCTivate! 6.3.1 allows all QuickBooks users to store and maintain credit card information in ACCTivate! within the Customer Information window. Also, QuickBooks 2008/8.0 users have the option to synchronize credit card information from ACCTivate! to QuickBooks. Click here for more information

Don't Forget to download ACCTivate! 6.3.1

Not sure how to download an update? Download Instructions

Please read these instructions regarding the installation of this update.

For more information on specific enhancements, features and corrections, please see the release notes inside the Downloads & Updates Center.

Alterity, Inc.
2012 East Randol Mill, Suite 219
Arlington, TX 76011
Phone: 817-870-1311
Fax: 817-338-1855
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