Billees - Releases

What's new in Billees Business

^{12 October 2021}
Version 1005 for Windows
Download Billees Business V1005

Operating system supported: Windows7SP2, Windows10 (recommended)

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of V1005, It's been 3 months since the V1004 release, but in that short time we've added a couple of interesting new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

New Features

Stock query
Scan barcode / Search a product for complete product transaction details along with current stock status and also allows to drill down till respective transaction details. (Supports all inventory product types -- Standard, Variant, Serialized, Batch-Expiry, Best Before etc.,)
Serialized Inventory Tracking
This release brings you 100% Serialized unit inventory count and history tracking of each serial number.
Matrix / Variants
Now, you can delete unwanted variant combinations.
Example: In: Color : Red, Size XXL.
Barcode Label Printing
a) Select any inward transaction and print Barcode labels.
b) Printing Barcode labels right from the production entry.
Price Level | Price List
You get great flexibility in applying price levels, Simply choose a price list just before invoicing to customer.
Purge data
Delete unwanted transactional data permaninently from database.
Weighing Scale integration
Enable weight scale option works with all inventory product types.
List Price and QOH.
Display price and QOH option added to Sales settings.
When enabled, system pops price list along with available quantity while adding a product to cart.
Notifications
While invoicing to customer, system notifies if you have
a) Prepayment balance from customer.
b) Pending credit notes available for adjustment.
Clone a Product
Quickly create a new product from a similar product.
how to: In the product search page, hit Alt + C to clone the focused record.

Enhancements & Fixes

Invoice : Cart list is not scrolling properly and cursor is not visible when the cart list is long. Noticed when batch / best before inventory products are added to cart.
-- Fixed
Usability issues in Image mapping screen for variant items. -- Fixed.
Barcode Label Printing : Printing wrong price while barcode labels are printed from Purchase transaction.
-- Fixed.
Barcode Label Design: Product Shelf Life in days and Product description data attributes added.
-- Enhancement
System not showing MRP list to user for rate selection, when a product contains multiple MRPs.
-- Fixed.
Average cost calculating wrongly in a specific case.
-- Fixed.
Service Item HSN Codes are not capturing in transactions.
-- Fixed.
Customer | Supplier Statements : These statements are now formated for better usability. It also allows you to drill down to transaction details.
-- Enhancement
Expense Entry : Supplier selection is now optional.
-- Enhancement

Download Billees Business V1005

Operating system supported: Windows7SP2, Windows10 (recommended)

^{19 July 2021}
Version 1004 for Windows

Billees Busines APP - Billees Online Store(mobile commerce)

This release brings you the convenience of managing the online store configurations, including template design from any computer (server/client)
Upload product images to the online store from any computer (server/client).

Billees Business APP

Introducing two new editions of Billees

In addition to the smart-cloud edition, we are introducing two new editions for small businesses.

Basic Edition : Limited to single Computer
This edition is best suitable for small businesses that need only one computer to manage entire store operations.

Standard Edition : Unlimited multi-users | computers
This edition is best suitable for businesses that need more than one computer to manage store operations. This edition requires a local area network (LAN) at your business premise.
Access transaction details
Now, it's super easy to know the details of each transaction with a single click from reports, customer & supplier ledgers, bank ledger, Accounts receivables & payables, and payment history. In addition to that, it also allows you to edit, delete, print the transaction.
GST Returns filing (update).
Export GSTR-1, GSTR-3B data to Excel format and process your GST returns filing through GST offline tool.
Accounts Receivables & Payables
Now you can adjust post-sale discounts, prepaid balances, credit notes, and write-off dues.
Chart of Accounts
Define sub-groups of your choice for ledgers.
Expences | Receipts
The user experience got better and simplified.
Prepayments | Credit Note | Debit Note Balance Notification
When you select a customer/supplier on any transaction, the system will notify on screen if any balance left
Quick keys
Quick keys allow you to Create:[Alt+A] and Edit:[Alt+Enter] a Product, Customer, Supplier right from the search screen.
Fixes
1. Barcode Design template files missing in v1003 setup

2. Customer/Supplier/Product master: Copy & Paste text was not working.

3. Bulk-Update: The user experience got better and simplified.

4. Sales order to Invoice: System calculating sale price from current inventory rather than committed price in sales order

^{07 April 2021}
Version 1003

Billees Busines APP - Billees Online Store

Introducing Real-time Online order notifications in Billees Business APP, which helps you to get attention to new orders and process them quickly.
Customers get Real-time mobile notifications about their order status.
Online Store performance tuned to support huge product catalogue (3,00,000+ products). Now, we proudly announce that product search is fluid and superfast.

Billees Insights APP

Now, you get online order notifications in your mobile! It helps store owners/dispatch managers to track and manage pending orders from anywhere.

Billees Business APP

Bulk update Product catalogue using Excel
Now, you can export product catalogue to Excel format, update data in excel and import back to Billees. It's a Time saver feature and super simple to manage large product catalogue.
Electronic Weighing Scale device integration
How it works?
a. Enable Weighing Scale option in your product master for products that you weigh and sell.
b. Select a product in sell screen, System pops a small screen, here you can enter weight manually. To read weight from weighing scale, click on settings icon, choose a COM PORT weighing scale which is attached to it. Save settings, power on the weighing scale, put some weight on it and see the weight appears on screen. When the reading stops ticking, press enter to accept the weight and continue to next item.
Weighing Scale with Lable printing device Integration
How it works?
To support various models of such label weighing scales, Billees proposes a predefined generic format which contains 10 digits. First 5 digits are the unique product code and rest of the 5 digits are weight.
Example: suppose if the unique product code is '00100' and weight is '150grams' then the printed barcode would be '0010000150'

How to configure?
a. Label weighing scale vendor to configure the device to print barcodes in the 10 digit format as proposed above.
b. In Billees APP you need to define a unique product code for each product that requires this integration and share the product catalogue with the scale vendor to configure the same in the device.
Price Books | Price Levels
In addition to existing formulas, a new option is added to set flat price for a product.
Free Billees Email Service
Now, with a click, you can send invoices, statements and payment reminders to your customers. Purchase orders to your suppliers and share reports with your team and more.

How to setup?
It requires no setup. This feature is in-built and available by default to all users.

Can I configure my email account?
Yes! This feature is already available from V1002. Go to Organization > Settings, click on Setup Email and follow the instructions as shown on the screen.
Audit Trail | Activity Log
The Corporate Affairs Ministry (MCA) has mandated every company that uses accounting software to maintain its books of accounts to only use software that has the feature to record audit trail of each and every transaction put through after April 1. Also, companies have now been mandated to create edit log of each change made in account books with the proper dates. As per the amendments, companies must ensure that the audit trail is not disabled.

Billees has this feature from day one. It logs each and every activity of the user.
Now the Reporting tool comes with zoom-in feature, which helps you to know the details of each and every activity of the user (or) a transaction.

How to access this report?
Go to Reports >> User Activity Log
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts has been unified to give better user experience.

How to know shortcut keys?
Click on Main Menu, and then click on keyboard icon which you can find in the left bottom of the Main Menu.

^{11 January 2021}
Version 1002

Billees Online Shop
We are excited to introduce built-in Online Shop platform for your business.

Covid-19 is affecting businesses globally. It is utmost important than ever to have a multi-channel business strategy. Let's prepare for the resurgence with Billees-Business.

Hybrid: digital-physical seamless experiences will be the future
We are bridging this gap by introducing one box solution to manage in-store operations using full featured (Invoicing, Inventory, Accounting and Taxation) beautifully designed cloud enabled Windows APP. With no other efforts seamlessly sell online through your own online shop (Billees Online Store Platform)

Works for any size of business. Whether you run single store (or) chain of stores.

^{24 July 2020}
Version 1001

We are delighted to announce The all-in-one software platform to start, run, and grow a business.
We are bringing one platform to sell products to anyone, anywhere, in person with Billees Business and online through Billees Online Shop.