Core Books Features
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Easy-to-Use Multi-Window Interface:
Experience how easy and efficient it is to
work with Books. You can work on an
arbitrary number of different things at the
same time.
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Professional Form Design Tools:
Design your own invoices and give them a
special touch with your company logo.
Besides that, you can customize all other
documents that Books prints out for
you.
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Invoicing and Receiving Payments:
Create invoices easily, keep track of your
receivables and register incoming
payments.
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Managing Expenses and Sending
Payments:
Register your expenses, keep track of your
payables and register payments.
Automatic
General Ledger Transactions:
When you create an invoice or register a
payment, Books will automatically generate the
necessary transactions in the general ledger
Advanced
Reporting:
Use Books reports to get useful insights on
your sales figures, your purchases and the
profitability of your business. You can print
the results, save them as PDF or export it for
further analysis to Excel.
Easy
to extend and very scalable:
Books grows with your business and can easily
be extended with additional functionality. If
your business becomes an enterprise, it is very
easy to upgrade to HansaWorld's product for big
businesses, HansaWorld Enterprise.
Contact
management with Skype
integration:
Manage your business contacts with Books and
use its possibility to easily keep track of the
whole communication with your customers and
suppliers.

Job Costing-specific Features
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Project Management:
Books brings you a compact best of breed
Project Management tool, helping you and
your team to be on top of your projects.
Every step in the business process from
lead generation to invoicing and follow-up
is handled in a single integrated
application.
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Quotation:
Adjust quotations for projects by quickly
entering corresponding information or
simply using drag and drop of relevant
items. Books lets you mix and match time,
materials, expenses and inventory
items.
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Budgets:
Budgets in Books can be adjusted
automatically from quotations, or entered
manually. These can be allocated to
individuals, so that reporting can pick up
overruns at the person level as well as by
type of work.
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Scheduling With Graphical Planner:
Assign your employees and team members by
entering their person codes on the project
record. Books integrated Resource Planning
module can schedule each piece of work on
the project.
Time
Billing And Costing:
Use Books to set up your employees with their
individual hourly rate and cost per hour for
gross profit calculations. Streamline the data
entry and reporting by grouping employees with
the same rates. With Books you can even
associate groups with price lists, so that
different customers are charged at different
rates for the same person’s time
Cost
control:
Keep track of all your costs in Books. All of
your costs will be directly connected to the
project regardless if it's time, items or even
expenses.
Reporting:
Books gives you a variety of standard reports
such as: Employee statistics, Project invoicing
and Project profit/loss.
Invoicing:
Books handles any schedule of invoicing, based
on budgets, costs or any number of pre-set
amounts at any date. It also allows you to set
up a default presentation for an invoice, which
can be changed to fit any project. This
determines the level of detail independently
for entries from time sheets and for purchases.
Detail varies from every transaction to one
line per project, yet still allowing listing by
item or by item group.