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Argon Business Solutions (PTY) Limited

What differentiates us?

• Top Quality South African Accounting Software.
• The highest quality product backed up by amazing support
• Configurable 'Boutique' Software
• Inexpensive Bespoke Changes to fit your company like a glove.
• Our Product is our passion
• 23 years in the industry and getting stronger by the day.

Argon supplies a wide range of software solutions aimed at the building and allied industries with a specific focus on the needs of the South African market.

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E-Maestro Mobile

• You're away from the office. The CEO phones to ask what stock value you have over seven months... No Problem! Just log into the E-Maestro Mobile menu. Type the following address into your cellphone for a demo :
• Use a user "mobile" and password "mobile01"
• http://www.argon.co.za/em/login_mobile.html
• OR
• View it in this browser.

EMaestro

Latest Modifications:

• PDF Documents : Invoices,Quotes, Statements, Purchase Orders, Pro Formas... All run in configurable PDF documents.
• Active Graphs in KPI and Browses
• Personalised menus : Add your own reports to each section of your menus.
• KPI : Added Supply Details plus BoM and MOWO(Multiple Output Works Orders) detaiols to KPI schedule.
• Balancing Routines : SL, PL, ST and PO balancing routines added to make your life easier.
• Statements : Run your Maestro statements from E-Maestro, and print them including your logo's to Plain paper.
• Invoices : Run your Invoices from E-Maestro, and print/Email them to your customers.
• Quotations : Run your Quotations from E-Maestro, and print/Email them to your customers.
• Time and Motion Study : Examine exactly how long your counter staff are taking from the second a customer walks in to your business, until their order is despatched/invoiced.
• Key Performance Indicators : Also know as a 'dashboard' display. Pick the key indicators you would like to see for your business. Display them in graphical, tabular or plain text format, plaintext is for cellphones, and can be viewed in E-Maestro Mobile.
• Paperless Office : With the strides made in E-Maestro, it has become possible to run a paperless office. All generated documents may be stored on harddisk for later review, mailing.

Maestro V9/Finance

Latest Modifications:

• New Project Tracking module.
• New Warehouse Management module.
• Counter Sales module.
• Full Field Validation added for All fields in system, including browse of valid values.
• Negative GRV fucntionality.
• PO GRV vs Invoice Cost automation.
• Alternate Browse. We have implemented a new browse routine that allows browse selection by user. The Alternate browse can be set up for instance, to use suppliers Stock codes, thus easing the capture of purchase orders.
• OP Recipes and Associated Products was implemented. A table of recipes and a seperate table of associated products can be maintained. A recipe can be expanded, while an associated product will pop up a list of products the customer may want with the main purchased item. These features have often been talked about. But never actually put into practice. Now they are here. It is time to make sure you are running Version 6!
• PO/ST/NL Integration implemented to fully integrate the last of the modules.
• Changed to allow switching of Financial Rounding On specific customers. eg: In the past if rounding was switched on, and configured to round 1.18 down to the nrearest 5 cents, the amount calculated would always be 1.15. In this version, depending on the customer, it can be 1.15, OR 1.18.
• Use dispatch date on order header record as Invoice date when spooling invoices.
• Display Discount Matrix details in Customer Price Enquiry.
• Allow Manual order number entry depending on System key/Special user function.
• Allow Queue Maintenance with journal posting.
• Use specific printer parameters for PO Label printing.
• Copy 'Dropped closed items' to a dropped closed items history file, which may be reviewed from 'Open Item Enquiry'.

General Updates

CONNX ODBC implemented to allow system enquiries from Windows based products.