HortBase - An Overview

Inventory Management

• Utilises easy to remember coding systems based on the botanical name of plants. 
• Has a flexible and easy to use plant labeling system. 
• Ability to produce trade and price lists, catalogues and order forms. 
  
• Horticultural Database
• Stores botanical and common names along with descriptive information.
• Uses a Query-by-Form facility to quickly retrieve information based on any word or words in the ame or description.

Production

• Tracks production of plants from planning to saleable stock.
• Preparation of sales plans with projected monthly sales figures in dollars and units.
• Generation of production schedules for propagation, growing-on and potting stages.
• Monitoring of production by comparing actual plants produced with the number of plants required to meet the production plan.
• Calculation of material requirements for each production stage and budgeting of available space.

Costing

• Provides a method of accurately predicting the cost of growing plants.
• Assists growers in answering the question, do you cover costs and make a profit from plants sold?

Sales Orders / Invoicing

• Manages the filling and dispatch of customer orders and facilitates tracking of forward and back orders.
• Picking slips can be printed for orders to be assembled by dispatch staff.
• Confirmation slips can be printed for confirmed orders.  Plant labels and packing slips can be included with dispatched goods.
• Invoices can be printed at any time (not necessarily as goods are dispatched) and reprinted on demand.

Purchase Orders

• Manages ordering and receipt of purchases.
• Prints purchase orders and reports on current status of unfilled or partly filled orders.

Debtors

• Monitors customer current balances and maintains information on overdue accounts.
• Produces invoices, statements and mailing labels.

Creditors

• Maintains an accurate picture of current expenses enabling you to make the most of your resources.
• Provides a detailed analysis of purchases.

Cashbook

• Accurately track your cash flow and control your finances.
• Produce a detailed breakdown of income and expenditure and generate GST returns.
• On screen bank reconciliation facility allows you to easily reconcile your accounts.
• Budgeted figures for income and expenditure can be compared with actual monthly income and expenditure.

Point Of Sale

• Replaces cash register equipment at the counter and updates stock on hand levels as goods are sold.
• Supports customer accounts and barcode scanning.
  

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