Accounts Payable puts you in charge of the entire payable process - from the minute invoices come in your door, through the approval process, payment selection and cheque printing.
Accounts Receivable gives you the tools to stay in touch with clients and on top of receivables to proactively manage your cash position.
Billing can accommodate all your customer invoicing needs. Use it to automatically produce time-and-material, cost plus, lump sum progress billing and easily create free-form invoices independent of your contracts at any time.
Cash Management is an easy-to-use tool that lets you view and track cash transactions generated in Accounting's Accounts Payable, Payroll, Accounts Receivable, Job Cost and Property Management applications and reconcile them with your companies bank statements and general ledger.
Accounting's fully integrated Equipment Cost module tracks ownership, maintenance, cost, revenue, location and profitability for every piece of equipment in your fleet.
Included as a component of Accounting's General Ledger application, the Financial Statement Designer allows you to quickly and efficiently modify Accounting's predefined financial statements or create your own custom statements from scratch.
General Ledger is Accounting's storehouse for financial activity and history. Accounting information generated in other Accounting modules flows seamlessly to General Ledger where it's stored in an account format that you customise to fit your business.
Information Assistant provides quick push-button direct access to Accounting reports and inquiries without requiring access to one of the core accounting applications, making it the perfect tool for your employees who need Accounting data, but don't want to use accounting software to get it.
A complete Accounting package contains more than 500 standard reports. Report Designer gives you the ability to quickly and easily modify them or create your own.
Provided with the Accounts Receivable application, Contracts tracks the details of your customer agreements in one convenient location.
Accounting accounting applications come with more than 100 standard inquiries, each of which provides instant onscreen access to business and accounting information.
Accounting inventory is a complete stock control application designed to keep you on top of all aspects of material management.
Job Cost collects all project-related information and stores it in a format you customise to fit your business.
Service Management helps you to communicate more effectively with customers by giving you quick, ready access to vital service information.
These days access to information means everything. That's why Sage Timberline offers you the flexibility to extend your reach through Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).
Accounting Payroll processes even the most complex construction payrolls automatically. Through Accounting's integration, information generated in Payroll flows seamlessly throughout the software to help you monitor and control labour costs.
Sage Timberline Accounting Property Management software does more than just generate rent charges and print statements. It integrates your accounting and lease management into one, complete system - designed to work on your terms.
Accounting Purchasing gives you the tools to stay on top of material acquisition while keeping an eye on the bottom line.
Remote time entry is an efficient tool designed to enhance payroll productivity and labour cost management.
Sage Timberline Project Management will simplify the way you manage projects, by allowing total integration of your accounting, estimating and project management teams.
WMS allows easy integration between your estimating and accounting products. Includes sending purchase orders.
Estimating provides the tools you need to streamline your entire estimating process from designing an estimate to final bill of quantities.
Document Mangager provides a repository for documents your company's documents.
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Provided with the Accounts Receivable application, Contracts tracks the details of your customer agreements in one convenient location. Through Sage Timberline Accounting's integration, information stored in Contracts can be used to drive billings, coordinate receivables processing and enhance management of variations.
For each of your customer agreements, Contracts stores scope of work, terms project contracts and more. Contracts also tracks billing requirements and variation information Sage Timberline Accounting Billing can use information stored in Contracts to produce your customer invoices automatically. Job Cost can work with Contracts to manage every step of the variation process - from request through approval.
Sage Timberline Accounting automation makes setting up new contracts easy. You can set up predefined templates to quickly enter new contacts. And with the interface to Accounts Receivable, you can automatically enter customer information already stored in Sage Timberline Accounting.
Using Sage Timberline Accounting's access tools, your contractual information is always immediately available. Interactive inquiries let you view stored information in seconds for quick lookups and over-the-phone answers. And customisable reports let you calculate and print information in any format you choose for in-depth analysis.
Following is a detailed list of all the features Contracts offers to help you track your customer agreement.

Contract tracking

  • Identify contracts and contract items with up to 10-characters containing up to three section.
  • Use predefined templates to quickly set up new contracts and to maintain consistency among your contracts.
  • Use information from your Accounts Receivable customer records to enter contracts.
  • Record and track scope of work for each contract and contract item.
  • Track contract status (for example, proposed, pending, approved, closes, paid-in-full).
  • Define unique billing methods (for example, progress, progress bill, lump-sum, unit priced, time and materials, cost plus) for each contract item.
  • Track all the individuals involved with a contract. 
  • Track all documents and functions for each contract item.
  • Assign GL accounts to each contract item (for example, AR, retention AR, revenue).
  • Assign GL account prefixes (for example, divisions, departments, companies) to each contract item.
  • Identify GL revenue account exceptions for each contract item (for example, track different types of work separately in your GL).
  • Add up to 250 user defined fields to track additional contracts information.
  • Use customised checklists to track contract action items.
  • Assign different customer or billing contracts, invoice formats, rate and mark-up tables and retention percentages to each contract and contract item.
  • Define the billing frequency for each contract.
  • Control invoice numbering by contract.
  • Automatically maintain last invoice amounts and dates, and last payment amounts and dates.
  • Link a contract to one or more jobs or extras.
  • Link a job or extra to one or more contracts or contract items.
  • Link each contract item to one or more cost codes.
  • Optionally accumulate billed totals for month-to-date, next month, year-to-date, next year and contract-to-date periods.
  • Access retention held, billed and balance amounts by contract item.

Variation tracking

  • Tie variations to contracts or contract items.
  • Automatically change contract amounts and contract item amounts based on approved variations.
  • Track original contract units and amounts, approved variations and revised units or amounts contracted.
  • Record the reason for the variation, the scope of the variation, the dollar amount of the variation, and units.
  • Record multiple items per variation.
  • Create Contracts variations based on variation requests logged in Job Cost.
  • Revise Job Cost variation requests to minimise data entry (for example, change the status of "denied" or reduce the amount prior to approving).
  • Track variations by cost type.
  • Track the estimate cost of the variation along with the contract variation amount for profitable analysis.

Inquiry

  • Choose from eight pre-designed Contracts inquiries (for example, Derived Totals).
  • Drill down on summary information to view supporting detail (for example, click on a contract to view detail by contract item).
  • Apply conditions to display only the information you need to see.
  • View and insert electronic notes and file attachments.
  • Insert additional columns of information on-the-fly.
  • Modify any of the more than 100 inquiries contained in a complete Sage Timberline Accounting Extended system, or create new inquiries using the Sage Timberline Accounting Inquiry Designer.

Reporting

  • Choose from 13 pre-designed Contracts reports to calculate and print information at any time (for example, Contract Schedule of WIP, Contract Item Billing Summary).
  • Apply conditions and ranges to print exactly the information you need.
  • Modify nearly all of the more than 500 reports contained in a complete Sage Timberline Accounting Extended system, or create new reports using the Sage Timberline Accounting Report Designer.

Additional features

  • Enter electronic notes to contracts, contract items, variations and variation items to document additional information.
  • Attach electronic files (for example, job photos, scanned images of a contract) to contracts, contact items, variations, and variation items.
  • Customise the toolbar for quick push-button direct access to specific reports, inquiries and tasks.
  • Change onscreen descriptions to match your companies standard terminology.
  • Set up macros for unattended processing of predefined tasks.
  • Define security rights by user or group.

Contracts is one of many applications offered by the Sage Timberline Accounting Suite, Sage Timberline's fully integrated accounting software system for construction and property management firms. Designed for the 32-bit multitasking environments of Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, and featuring Client/Server SQL database technology. Sage Timberline Accounting gives you the tools to make better decisions, increase productivity and, ultimately, build profits.

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