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Pharmaceutical Distributors

Pharmaceutical Distributors
Acme’s Insight software installed in medicine distribution business, handles medicine producers, medical representatives, actual distribution business, FDA compliance (rules & laws) and above all handling large pool (network) of medical retailers in far easy way & it is beyond imagination. Acme’s Insight helps medicine distributor to have tight control on receivables, on payables, interest on receivables plus on payables, interest on bank FD’s, bank reconciliation, cash collection, cash tally, route monitoring plus accounting, remote order collection, etc. and this is in addition to have tight control on medicine stock, expiry products, near to expiry products, sales return, purchase return, etc. Acme’s Insight is the best software suite that helps medicine distribution business to grow year after year.

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Sales/Counter

  • Create and print multiple bills on multiple PC’s connected with multiple printers or with one printer
    Acme’s Insight works on single Windows based PC as well as on multiple PC’s having Windows operating system. If Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler is having large staff handling multiple activities within the business, then Acme’s Insight is the best software product. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can use Acme’s Insight for predefined and pre designated business functions like one or two users handling counter sales, one or two users handling telephonic purchase orders coming from medical retailers, one user handling purchase bill entry, one or two users keeping medicines in various racks, one user handling actual delivery of drugs at counter, one user handling delivery of drugs for outstation retailers, one user handling sales return, one user handling purchase return, owner handling cash or cheque collection, etc.
  • Print Bill Immediately After Entry
    This feature in the form of settings allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user to print the bill as soon as it is created & saved
  • Auto Select Batch In Sales Bill
    This feature automatically selects the batch number of the selected drug in sales bill.
  • Select Sales Return Batch First While Auto Selecting Batch
    This feature helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user to select that drug which arrived back in shop under sales return document. In turn, this feature helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to reduce saleable stock immediately by reselling it again.
  • Round Sales Bill and rounding method
    This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler, accountant or billing user to decide how rounding to be done when sales final bill is prepared and rounding method to be used for rounding purpose. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Default Memo Type In Sales Bill
    This function helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user to decide what type of sales bill to be prepared as default. Choices are cash bill, credit card bill, credit bill or multiple. This feature is available via settings.
  • Cashier module
    This feature is useful when more than one person is handling cash. Cashier module track opening balance, closing balance and generate reports cashier wise. This module can be ordered by Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler when handling cash by single person is beyond control & beyond management.
  • Add Multiple Batches Automatically For Entered Quantity
    This feature is useful when buyer order for large quantity of same drug. Since medical business runs on batch number, batch date & expiry date! This function automatically select multiple batches of selected drug. E.g. Assume medical retailer wants to buy 10 strips of Crocin tablets. Stock is available in ample quantity but there are two batches. One batch is having 4 strips and other batch is having 50 strips. Acme’s  Insight automatically takes 4 strips first and then 6 strips from other batch.
  • Flash message for drug, medical retailer and medical retail details
    This feature is available in the form of settings. Insight software alert & flash message when drug is out of stock, expired and reached to minimum stock level. This feature is linked with medical retailer name database and sales billing feature. Whenever medical retailer (having pending balance) visit the shop to buy more drugs? While making sales bill, as soon as medical retailer name is selected from Insight? Insight software alert billing user about payment due from selected medical retailer. This feature helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to keep tight control on outstanding.
  • Pending cash module
    This is another useful function for medical distribution or medical wholesaling business. This feature is useful and used for outstation medical retailers
  • Use Itemcode and medical retailer code while creating sales bill
    In medical distribution or medical wholesaling business, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesalers do business only with pre defined suppliers, with pre defined manufacturers, with pre defined medicines and with pre defined medical retailers. In normal business, billing user remembers medicine names by code and medical retailer names by code. Selecting medical item and medical retailer by code, helps billing user to create quick bill. This feature also helps to that user who handles and enters purchase bills in Acme’s  Insight software. This feature also helps Insight users who are handling cash collection.
  • Show medical retailer balance in pick list
    This feature helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user to get accurate information about outstanding payment when credit medical retailer visit (again) to buy more medical drugs. More over, when billing user click on each visible outstanding amount! User can get more information about bills raised on that medical retailer and medical drugs bought by that medical retailer in each bill.
  • Facility to take net sales rate for sales return process
    This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing staff to take direct net sales rate in sales return document.
  • Alert on Sales Bill UI (User interface) for shortage of medical drugs near to expire and expired drugs
    This alert automatically appears as soon as billing user create new sales bill on medical retailer. This alert empower and educate Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user about medical drugs that are not available in stock as well as medical drugs in stock whose expiry is already over. This alert allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to take a decision about ordering medical drugs that are in short supply and to return drugs that are already expired. This feature is the need of medical retail business. Acme’s Insight also uses different and important colors for this alert. Acme’s Insight use different colors for showing these alerts like Red color for expiry products, Orange color for block products, Purple color for ban products, Khaki color for unpassed batched products and Yellow color for near to expiry products.
  • Show Stock (rack wise) when sales bill is printed
    This function helps delivery staff while drugs are removed for dispatch from various racks.
  • Display Composition (important chemical Ingredients available within medicine) on Item pick list entry window
    This function is helpful where medical retailer ask counter sales bill person (and/or person handling orders over the phone) about the chemical composition that is being used in ordered drugs.
  • Take Different Series According To Memo Type In Sales Bill
    In Acme’s Insight software there is a provision to create different series of sales bills for cash payment and on credit. This function helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user to select accurate and appropriate billing series when sales bill is generated.
  • Lock sales rate greater than MRP
    Acme’s Insight allows medical distributor or wholesaler owner to lock the rates while selling medical drugs to medical retailers.
  • Sales bill printing sequence
    This is another unique feature of Acme’s  Insight. This feature allows billing user to define how sales bill will be printed that will benefit office staff to take out drugs from various racks. Here Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or user can define manufacture wise printing or rack wise printing. In rack wise printing, sequence can be maintained in such a way that office staff work smartly by visiting racks one by one than running from pillar to pillar. This is one of most powerful function of Acme’s Insight that brings true smartness for business, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and staff.
  • Select debit note or credit note automatically while generating sales bill
    This is another useful feature for counter staff. This feature helps counter staff or billing staff to pick up credit notes or debit notes in sales bill.
  • Take confirmation from retailers for additional drugs for scheme
    Medicine business works on various schemes offered by the producers directly and by medical distributors or by medical wholesalers to increase top line (turn over figure) and bottom line (profits) and to reduce stock pressure. This feature allows billing user to take confirmation over the phone before billing. This feature also helps both the parties i.e. medical distributor or medical wholesaler and medical retailer not to get in to conflict and spoil the business relation. This feature is available via settings.
  • Adjust pending advances manually in sales bill
    This is another useful feature of Acme’s Insight software. This feature is available via settings. This feature helps billing user if he/she finds credit balance available against medical retailer. This credit balance could be there in software because of sales return and retailer is yet to raise debit note on medical distributor or medical wholesaler. By this function, it helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and billing user of medical distribution or medical wholesaling business to keep the business slate of medical retailer neat, clean and with no due or receivables from each other.
  • Check for minimum allowed balance
    This is another useful feature when sales bill is generated on medical retailer. This feature allows billing user to check whether retailer is under control or not as regards to allowed credit balance. In case not? Insight software don’t allow user to bill it to the medical retailer. This feature is available in the form settings. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can decide what process or discipline they wish to follow for such medical retailers.
  • Warning alert for credit bill pending
    This is another useful feature that is available via settings. If this setting is enabled! Billing user and Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler will get warning while sales bill is generated on medical retailer. This alert helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to keep outstanding amount under tight control. Keeping outstanding to the minimum is the need of medical distribution or medical wholesale business.
  • Lock the scheme for Batch if percentage of stock goes lower than above specified percentage.
    This feature is available in the form of settings. If enabled! This feature doesn’t allow billing user to offer scheme price or free gifts for the selected batch. This feature helps business and Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler from creating losses.
  • Change Tax type by pressing hot key
    This is another useful feature when medical distributor or medical wholesaler is buying drugs out of the state where tax percentage is different. Purchase bill entry user can use this function to change the tax rates wherever applicable. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Check last purchase rate and last sales rate for selected item
    This function allows sales bill creator to check last purchase rate and last sales rate given for designated retailer who want to buy medical drugs.
  • Create Sales Order For Shortage Quantity During Sale Bill
    This is another useful feature when medical distributor or medical wholesaler is buying drugs out of the state where tax percentage is different. Purchase bill entry user can use this function to change the tax rates wherever applicable. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Select salesman name or code in sales bill
    This feature helps sales bill creator, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler, accountant and actual salesman. This feature keeps a track of business won by respective salesman from medical retailers working under him/her. This feature also allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or accountant to calculate incentives payable to sales staff.
  • Billing from : From fixed location and/or from choice of location when raising sales bill
    This feature is useful when medical distributor or medical wholesaler is having more than one billing location. By using this feature sales bill creator can generate sales bill for that location from where medical drugs will be moved and sold to medical retailers. This feature is useful for all those medical distributors and to medical wholesalers whose main office is located within Octroi or LBT boundary. This feature is most useful for urban cities of State of Maharashtra and Gujarat where Octroi and/or LBT is collected by Local Municipal Corporation.
  • Email sales bill as soon as generated
    This function allows sales bill creator to send email in PDF format directly to medical retailer email ID.
  • Sales bill checking
    Acme’s Insight software highly recommend medical distributors or medical wholesalers to follow sales bill checking module. This module and process recheck the sales bill and actual stock from MRP perspective, from quantity perspective and from batch perspective. This module and process avoids future confusion & ambiguity. This module and process saves time, effort and resources if not used and if not followed.
  • View sales history of medical retailer
    Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to view sales history of every medical retailer while sales bill is generated..

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Stock and Inventory

  • Import purchase bill
    Entering purchase bill consumes huge time of Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff. To save time, efforts, avoiding mistakes & errors, Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to import supplier’s bill generated in Acme’s Insight software, Dava Software or Medivision software. Acme’s Insight software also allows importing purchase bills received by stockiest in CSV format. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partner to get this feature enabled. Importing purchase bill saves time, avoids mistakes & errors, save money and save efforts too.
  • Batch Wise Inventory
    Acme’s Insight software maintain medicine drug data batch wise means allowing entry of medicine data with batch number, batch date and expiry date. This process helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and billing user while making sales bill, while taking sales return and while returning medical drugs to stockiest or actual producing company.
  • Expiry Warning Start Before “N” number of Days from the date Of Expiry and Lock Batch Before “N” number of Days from the date Of Expiry
    This is another powerful feature of Acme’s Insight. This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to decide when Acme’s Insight should warn Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and billing owner about expiry of drugs. “N” number can be entered by Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or by staff. This function is available via settings. Second feature will help Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to lock the batch of medical drugs. This function is also available in the form of settings.
  • Raise Expired Product Warning While Starting Program
    This is another powerful feature of Acme’s Insight. This feature enables to display report of all those medical drugs that are already expired or near to expire. This alert appears on computer screen as soon as Acme’s Insight software is started. This alert helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to take quick action on expired goods to return it to stockiest or producing company.
  • Special Series and different color codification for Scheduled H1 drugs
    Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user to create different sales bills for Schedule drugs. More over, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and billing user can define customised color for Scheduled drugs on their own. This helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or billing user while creating sales bill for medical retailer.
  • Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
    Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to validate purchase price and sale price while entering medical drug master data. This feature empower & educate Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to validate accuracy of price factor that is utmost important to business.
  • Multiple stocking point within business premises
    Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to stock medicines in multiple locations (racks) within business premises. Each location can be given unique number or naming convention. By doing this, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can actually get accurate information about stock available in respective locations (racks) where medical drugs are kept.
  • Minimum level quantity and reordering quantity
    Acme’s Insight software got this feature for Item Master entry module where Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff can enter minimum level quantity and reorder quantity. This feature helps to find out fast selling drugs and in turn, it helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler while reordering. Alert function is also available where by Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and staff are alerted as soon as stock level reaches to minimum level quantity. Automatic reordering feature is available in Acme’s Insight if activated (and used too) by Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff.
  • Formula function for Item Master Entry
    This feature helps medical distributor or medical wholesaler to define sale price for each item. Once the formula is set by Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler (by accountant or by staff)! Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight. This function saves times, efforts and avoid manual mistakes or errors.
  • Add multiple attributes or properties to each item (Substitute)
    Acme’s Insight software is completely driven by stock data. Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to add multiple attributes or properties for each medical drug. E.g., There are many generic drugs where chemical composition is same and relief to patient is also same. These medicines are produced by many companies. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff can add chemical composition properties in master item data. By adding these properties, Acme’s Insight allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to offer substitute product similar to the product asked by medical retailer and if medical retailer agrees to buy. This function helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler not to lose medical retailer (customers of medical retailer) who wants to buy it.
  • Maintaining stock in multiple units and in multiple packaging.
    This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to maintain stock in multiple units and in multiple packaging. E.g., Strips can be stored in boxes and sold as single strip to medical retailer. Liquid medicines can be stored in packs or in boxes and sold to medical retailer as single bottle. Cotton can be stored in boxes and sold as individual packet. Sanitary napkins can be stored in boxes and sold to retailer in peaces.
  • Add free quantity while purchase bill entered
    This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to enter free quantity scheme that is being offered by the original producer. E.g. Buy 10 strips and get 1 strip free as a scheme.
  • Display previous batch details (batch, scheme, purchase rate, sales rate, MRP, purchase date, expiry and GP percentage) while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to see whether items are already available in stock or not. This function is available via settings.
  • Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows Acme’s Insight to calculate purchase rate, sales rate and MRP rate when stock is entered. This feature allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff to define the formula for purchase price, sale price and MRP. If medical distributor or wholesaler is dealing in medical surgical equipments or in generic medical drugs! Medical distributor or wholesaler can enter different sales rates for every retailer.
  • Define default rates and user definable rates
    Setting default rates for medical retailers can help sales billing user to create quick bill. User definable rates helps sales billing user to type different rates for walk in retailers who are not regular buyers. They are one-off buyers.
  • Lock sales rates in sales bill
    This function is available in the form of settings. This function helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler not to allow certain billing users to play with sales rates. This function is utmost important where Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler is having more than one billing counters.
  • Allow free items
    This feature allows purchase bill entry user to add free items if they are being offered by the original supplier and/or by Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler. This feature also helps sales bill creator.
  • Allow replacement items
    This feature allows purchase bill entry user to allow sales bill user and sales return creator user to give replacement items.
  • Scheme module
    This feature allows medical distributor or wholesaler to run the scheme for retailers offered by principal producers. e.g. 10+1 scheme. Net rate scheme. Half rate scheme.
  • Sale order module on Android
    This is a dedicated Smartphone software developed on Android operating system. This module is sold separately and it is not a part of Acme’s Insight software. This Android based software module communicate with Windows based Acme’s Insight software seamlessly. This software helps medical distributors and wholesalers who got moveable sales staff promoting medical drug business by visiting each retail counter connected with distributor or wholesaler. Android based software allows movable sales person to pick up orders on Smartphone on the spot and while they are standing in medical retail shop. These orders are sent via Internet using simple texting method.
  • Display wholesale and retail margin on each item.
    This is another useful function when stock items are entered using supplier bill. This feature display retailer margin and wholesaler margin
  • Lock the batch
    Acme’s Insight software allows medical distributor or wholesaler to lock a particular batch of medical drugs. This feature is useful whenever FDA officer or Health officer from District Collector informs medical distributors or medical wholesalers not to sale a particular drug (complete batch) manufactured by respected producer.
  • To check margin after entry of purchase bill
    Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor and Wholesaler to check margin on every item for the entered purchase bill.

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Barcode Labeling

  • Multinational medical distribution or wholesaling business firms realized this problem long back than India.
    Now-a-days getting skill, low cost & low overheads worker for distribution or wholesaling business is becoming difficult day by day. Multinational medical distribution or wholesaling business firms realized this problem long back than India. Most of the multinational medicine distribution or wholesaling business firms introduced barcode labeling system in their business. Each product with barcode label helps to raise sales bill within less time.
  • In India, some medical distributors or wholesalers understood this concept and started working towards it.
    In India, some medical distributors or wholesalers understood this concept and started working towards it. Acme offers barcode software module as an option working tightly with Insight software. Using this module, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can use company owned barcode for billing. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can also design, create & print owned barcode label for speeding up sales bill process.

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CRM

  • Send transactional messages on mobile phone
    Using this function medical distributor or wholesaler can send text messages as soon as sales bill on credit with material is dispatched. Using this function medical distributor or wholesaler can send text messages as soon as payment collection is received for pending invoices. Using this function distributor or wholesaler can send thank you message when Android based order is arrived in Acme’s Insight software via text message.
  • Send personal greeting messages
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages for entire medical retail database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

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Accounting

  • VAT accounting
    Every month, every Medical Distributor is forced by government to submit VAT reports. VAT accounting is an important business task. Acme’s Insight software handles this part very systematically. When supplier’s bills are entered in to Insight? VAT paid on purchase bills is automatically added in to VAT paid register. When sales bill is printed on Medical retailers? VAT collected from retailers is automatically added in to VAT collection register. When expired medicines or damaged (package) medicines are returned to stockiest using purchase return document? Difference of VAT is automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight and posted in to VAT register for purchase return. Whenever Medical retailers returns medicines for damaged packaging or for expiry of medicines? Acme’s Insight automatically calculates VAT on sales return and posts it in to VAT register on sales return.
  • Bank reconciliation
    Bank reconciliation is one of the most tedious tasks for every Medical business owner. Acme’s Insight software offers a feature by which bank reconciliation happens in lesser time. Kindly contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners office to see how this feature helps Medical business owner and save owners time.
  • Interest calculation
    In Medical distribution business, stockiest charge interest when bills are not paid in time. This feature calculates the interest charged by the supplier. Many Medical Distributors keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by Medical Distributor using this feature available in Acme’s Insight.
  • View and print Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Creditor’s list and Debater’s list are the important documents that display health of Medical distribution business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is! Medical Distributor, accountant or staff does not have to have accounting knowledge to generate these reports. Acme’s Insight is developed in such a way that if Medical Distributor, accountant and staff enter every purchase bill, sale every product via Insight, enter every payment + receipt + expenses in Acme’s Insight software, enter every sales return and purchase return using Acme’s Insight! These reports will be automatically updated as soon as these entries are recorded in Acme’s Insight.
  • Create Daily/Monthly Series For Cash And Bank Vouchers
    This feature allows Medical Distributor to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available via settings.
  • Export financial accounting data to Tally including tax data
    Many Medical Distributors in India still avail or prefer the services of CA and/or professional tax consultant. In India, many CA’s and/or professional tax consultant use Tally software tool in their office. Insight's export accounting (only financial) data to Tally feature allows Medical Distributor to share accounting data with such professionals. Having said this, Medical Distributor can also generate accounting reports on their own namely balance sheet, P&L statement, trial balance sheet, creditor’s report, debater’s report, etc. on their own. In addition, Medical Distributor can also print various accounting registers like sales register, purchase register, stock register, bankbook, cashbook, customer register, receipt register, expense register, payment register, credit register, debit register, etc. on click of mouse button.
  • Report - Salesman wise sales and incentive calculation
    Using this function, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and/or accountant (working in business as staff) can easily disburse payable incentives with accurate data to each sales staff. This function saves time, efforts & money too.
  • Mark every sales bill as undelivered
    This feature is useful for those Medical distributors where delivery person or sales person actually deliver sales bill in person to every retailer. This feature makes great sense when sales bills are not delivered because Medical retailer is not available, Medical retailer shop is closed or Medical retailer refused to accept sales bill. This feature keeps the track of each sales bill and in turn Medical Distributor is empowered and educated about total receivables from the market, total number of sales bills under dispute, etc.
  • Operate Customized Scheme
    This feature is useful to Medical distributors who want to run their own scheme for selected or all retailers working under them. Typically, these schemes are launched by Medical distributors to reduce stock burden and to allow fresh stock of medicine or new medicine to get introduced in the market.
  • Lock or warn when GP (gross profit) is below predefined percentage
    This is an alert function. This function helps Medical Distributor or sales bill creator while saving the bill. If locking option is selected? Sales bill creator is unable to bill. If warning is selected? Sales bill creator is empowered via alert message on computer monitor. Medical Distributor or accountant need to decide how to use this function in their business.
  • Payment collection module
    This is useful feature for medicine distribution and wholesaling business. There are many delivery staff or sales staff visit multiple retailers for designated and defined daily work. One of the daily task is to collect payment for pending invoices. Delivery staff is given cash receipt book. These cash receipt books are allocated to staff and given to staff by keeping the record of each book in Acme’s Insight. Whenever delivery staff comes back in the evening! They handover cash and receipt book to the accountant. Accountant can enter receipt numbers in to Acme’s Insight and Insight automatically gives credit effect for the collected amount to respective staff as well as to medical retailer from whom this payment is collected.
  • Take receipt book number and receipt number in payment collection report
    This feature helps accountant, Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or cashier to account for cash receipt book and actual cash receipt delivered to retailer. This feature helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler and accountant to complete the sales cycle of sales bill generated on retailer.
  • Processing of cheques received from Medical retailers
    Acme’s Insight software completely track all the cheques received from Medical retailers namely when the cheque arrived in the office, when the cheque was deposited in the bank, when the cheque was credited in bank account, etc. are processed by this feature.
  • Credit note adjustment against suppliers invoice or item
    Acme’s Insight software got another needy feature where by credit notes generated & released by Medical distributors against the invoices or against item. This is very unique when credit notes are generated for schemes separately and credit notes generated for sales return and for overall sales bill.

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Sales and Purchase Return

  • Accept Expired Goods Only in Months After Expiry
    This function allows Medical Distributor to define the process and the discipline when to accept sales return Medical products arriving from Medical retailers. This function is available in the form settings
  • Maximum Items In One Credit Note
    This function allows Medical Distributor to define and to decide number of items to be taken back in one credit note. This feature is available in the form of settings
  • Define sales return rate for expired items in sales return
    This function is available in the form of settings and in the form of formula. Medical Distributor can define how much of percentage to be followed on MRP when sales return happens.
  • Allow more sales return rate in sales return as compared to already defined formula
    This function is available in the form of settings. This function allows exceptional cases where sales return needs to be taken back at higher price than defined formula earlier. This feature works manually provided authority is enabled and given.
  • Define number of days for sales return process
    This feature is available in the form of settings. This function allows Medical Distributor to define number of days from the date of expiry date for sales return activity.
  • Allow credit note with reason for sales return
    This function is available in the form of settings. This function pushes Medical distributor or staff to write reason to link credit note with sales return document. This feature helps Medical Distributor, accountant, CA or tax practitioner to trail credit note and sales return document.
  • Sales return passing module
    This feature is needed where physical sales return is undertaken by counter staff but sales return is passed by authority person only since counter staff is not domain knowledge person and having authority.

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Report

  • Schedule H1 and other schedule drug Report
    This report comprises of schedule H1 drug (including other schedule drugs) stock available in shop, purchase of schedule H1 drugs (and other schedule drugs) year to date and schedule H1 drugs sold to various medical retailers year to date. This report is FDA’s compliance.
  • Stock report
    Medical representative working with producing firms requires this data daily from authorised medical distributors or medical wholesalers. Acme’s Insight generates this report automatically at predefined time and email it to the concerned medical representative via email. If medical distributor or medical wholesaler is having his/her own web site for his/her own business! This report can be made available on the web site too. Medical representatives can be given secured log-in user ID and password to see the report and to download the reports. By this feature distributor can save valuable business time in meeting medical representatives. Pending dead stock report is also available in Acme’s Insight software.
  • Accounting Reports
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debtor’s Registers, General Ledger, Bank Statement, Profitability Report, Cheque Book Maintenance, Suppliers Cheque Book Report, Bank Reconciliation report, etc.Acme’s Insight also generate automatic credit and debit note report, rate difference credit and debit notes and interest on pending bills for late payment report.
  • VAT report
    Acme’s Insight generates 4 types of VAT reports namely VAT paid via suppliers bill, VAT collected via sales bill generated on retailers, VAT difference on sales return and VAT difference on purchase return.
  • Print Date & Time on each report
    Acme’s Insight print date & time on each report so that trailing on each reports becomes easy. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Expired drug report item wise, manufacture wise or storage location wise.
    This report helps the Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler when purchase return activity to be conducted and when quick business analysis to be done.

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Back Office

  • Business Analysis and Intelligence
    Acme’s Insight got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. E.g. Supplier wise sales, product sales, counter sales, salesperson wise sales, profitability of the business, etc. These reports are instantly available and they are updated as and when actual transaction happens in Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling drugs to customer, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, etc.
  • Multiple firms
    Insight allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler to use this function in case Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler wants to maintain drug business separately and other healthcare product business plus cosmetic product business separately from tax (turnover and income) perspective. This feature reduces tax burden. This feature helps Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler on how to grow business, when, where, etc. Switching from one firm to another business firm happens only by pressing one key on computer keyboard. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can also keep last year and last to last year data in computer. Switching to earlier financial year data is also smooth, seamless and easy.
  • Supplier data entry linked with manufacturing firms
    Acme’s Insight allows Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler can add manufacturing company names while creating supplier database. Efforts invested in data entry actually help Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff when purchase order is created on these suppliers. Acme’s Insight software shows only those medicine names that are linked with supplier produced by concerned producers. This feature speed up the computer performance by showing limited medicine names than show entire medicine names produced by countless firms.
  • Scheduler & task manger
    Acme’s Insight software offers another powerful feature that can be used before or after transaction hours. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff can record patient name and their standard prescription details if Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff knows these medicines are needed by patient on regular interval. Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff can call the patient and remind the patient about it or Medical Distributor or Medical Wholesaler or staff can actually deliver the medicines. Usage of scheduler and task manager can be utilized to increase the business. Medical Distributor and Medical Wholesaler can also add various important business task like VAT return date, IT return date, VAT payment date, IT payment date, Medical Retailer License Expiry date, etc. in Acme’s scheduling software. Acme’s scheduling software sends an alert text message on mobile phones used by Medical Distributor and by Medical Wholesalers.
  • Auto email stock reports to Medical representatives
    Acme’s Insight software got this another unique and needy feature. This feature send stock reports to MR’s using their email ID’s. These reports can be also uploaded on Medical Distributor or Wholesaler’s web site. Medical Distributor or Wholesaler can give user log-in ID and password to MR’s to directly access these reports than MR visiting Medical Distributor and Medical Wholesaler.
  • Lock Medical retailer
    Acme’s Insight software allows Medical Distributor and Medical Wholesaler to lock the medical retailer in case medical retailers business reputation is spoiled because of wrong business practices followed by medical retailer.
  • Automatic back-up of Insight
    Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated via Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in automobile spare part shop. 

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Automobile Spare Parts Retailers

Automobile Spare Parts Retailers

Acme’s Insight software allows Automobile Spare Part owner to handle actual end customers, individual mechanics and service garage owners more efficiently and in lesser time. Acme’s Insight software allows Automobile Spare Part business owner to keep tight control on saleable products, non saleable products, outdated products, damaged products, etc. and in turn allows business owner to reduce stock pressure and finance pressure on non saleable goods, damaged goods & outdated goods, etc. Acme’s Insight software is the best software suite that is customised (made to order) for Automobile Spare Part business.

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Sales/Counter

Sales counter in automobile spare part store is the most dynamic area or happening area of the business. Over here, direct end customers (who own the vehicle), individual service mechanics and service garage owners are the customers who arrive to buy spare part. In addition, sales representatives representing spare part manufacturers and their transporters also visit the spare part store. Acme’s Insight software is developed for those automobile spare part stores who offer spare parts for multiple automobile vehicles (than exclusive automobile vehicle). These spare parts are produced by those spare part manufacturers who directly compete with actual OEM spare part producers associated with principle automobile manufacturing firms. Acme’s  Insight offers various features and those are:-

  • Create 10 sales bills at a time
    Acme’s Insight software allows business owner (or staff) to create 10 sales at a time with multiple memo types E.g., Customer owning the vehicle buys the spare part in cash. Garage owners (or their staff) buy the spare part in cash or on credit or on approval basis. Individual mechanics buy the part on approval basis, on credit or in cash.
  • Number of spare part names to be printed in single sales bill
    This function is available in the form of settings. This function allows automobile business owner to decide number of spare part names to be printed in single sales bill.
  • Number of copies to be printed of one sales bill
    This function allows business owner to print single sales bill more than one copy if they are using Deskjet or Laser or Thermal printer. If automobile business owner use carbon inserted paper stationary and decides to use dot matrix printer! Then this feature is not useful.
  • Save and Print Bill Immediately After Entry
    This feature in the form of settings allows billing user to save & to print bill instantly or only to save the bill without printing.
  • Rounding sales bill and its method
    This feature allows automobile business owner (or staff) to decide how rounding to be done for the final sales bill and the method to be used for rounding. Formula function is available for this feature. This feature is available via settings.
  • Use barcode or item code while generating sales bill.
    Billing user can use barcode gun to scan the barcode and create sales bill and/or user can enter item code number (name) and create sales bill. Billing user can use both methods in case some of the products are without barcode and/or barcode label fixed on the spare part is spoiled.
  • Enter cash received from customer
    This feature allows sales bill user to enter cash received from customer. Billing software capture the total sales bill amount, cash received from customer and exchange cash returned to the customer
  • Multiple taxing
    Acme’s Insight handles multiple tax rates in single sales bill namely 5% or 5.5% VAT, 12% or 14% VAT and CST. Acme’s  Insight software allows billing user to bill various types of taxing products in one sales bill. Billing user can also define whether tax to be shown in sales bill or not and/or sales rate to be shown inclusive of tax. Whatever process is followed by the automobile business owner! Acme’s Insight will configure billing module accordingly.
  • Multiple payment collection
    Acme’s Insight allows automobile business owner to collect multiple payment collection for single sales bill namely cash, credit card and cheque.
  • Sales return / exchange in same sales bill
    Sales return or exchange is unavoidable attribute of automobile spare part business. Acme’s Insight offers sales return in same sales bill and/or sales return by separate document. Automobile business owner can decide the process.

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Stock and Inventory

Maintaining stock, tracking stock, updating stock, etc. are the key needs of automobile spare part business as number of spare parts are huge. Acme’s Insight offers useful features in this category that helps automobile spare part business owner to control the stock and helps him/her to have tight control on non-saleable parts, out dated spare parts and dead/damaged spare parts.

  • Import purchase bill
    Acme’s Insight software allows automobile business owner to import purchase bill if supplier is using computer for generating invoice. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partner on how to import purchase bill.
  • Import price list
    It is being observed that today many original automobile spare part producers keep their price list on their web sites in MS Excel format. Acme’s Insight software allows automobile business owner to import this file by downloading it from respective web sites. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partner on how to import MS Excel price list.
  • Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan
    Using this feature automobile spare part business owner can enter item master records using supplier’s bill or using delivery challan.
  • Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
    Acme’s Insight software allows validating purchase price and sale price while entering product master data. This feature validate accuracy of price factor that is utmost important to business.
  • Multiple stocking point (location or racks) within outlet or outside outlet
    Using this feature, automobile spare part business owner can record rack numbers and parts stored in each rack. This feature helps automobile spare part business owner to find the part quickly when part is asked by the customer.
  • Minimum stock level quantity and reordering quantity
    Acme’s Insight allows automobile business owner to enter minimum stock level quantity and reorder quantity for those spare parts that are fast selling. Using this feature, reordering spare part becomes easy. E.g. Electrical fuses. Spark plugs. Silicon Greece. Clutch cable. Etc.
  • Formula function for Item Master Entry
    Formula function allows automobile business owner to define purchase price, sale price and MRP price for each item.
  • Add multiple attributes or properties to each item
    Using this feature, automobile business owner (or staff) can define all those properties by which they can search part in Acme’s Insight in lesser time, they can deliver the part to the customer in lesser time, they can bill the spare part to the customer in lesser time and above all, they can reorder the spare part in lesser time.
  • Maintaining stock in multiple units and packs
    This feature allows automobile business owner to purchase spare parts in one measure of units and packing and sale the spare part in different measure of units & packing. E.g., Buy electrical fuse in packs of 100 and sale each fuse in peace. Buy Silicon Greece in kilograms and sale it in grams. Buy spark plugs in dozens or in boxes and sale it in peaces. Buy rubber belts in dozens/boxes and sale it in peaces. Buy selected assemblies of 4 wheeler or higher and sale individual part in peace.
  • Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows automobile business owner to enter stock with multiple delivery challans and these challans can be linked to single invoice at later stage.
  • Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows Acme’s Insight to calculate purchase rate, sales rate and MRP rate when stock is entered. This feature allows automobile business owner ( or staff) to define the formula for purchase price, sale price and MRP. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Define default rates and user definable rates
    Both these options are available in the form of settings. Setting default rates for customers can help sales billing user to create quick bill. User definable rates helps sales billing user to type different rates for mechanics or garage owners (or their staff).
  • Lock sales rates in sales bill
    This function is available in the form of settings. This function helps automobile business owner not to allow billing users to play with sales rates. This function is utmost important where automobile business owner is having more than one billing counters.
  • Create group wise category while entering items
    Automobile spare part business user can create multiple categories like electrical items, mechanical items, lubricants, after market products, etc. and then enter items in respective categories. This feature generate reports for trading account.
  • Allow replacement items
    This feature allows purchase bill entry user to allow sales bill user and sales return document creator user to give replacement items.
  • Run scheme
    This feature allows automobile business owner to run scheme for customers. Customers could be end customer, individual mechanics or garage owners.
  • Show item balance while creating sales bill
    This feature empowers & educate sales bill user about the stock of billable items.
  • Assembly stock management
    Acme’s Insight software offers this feature for all those items that falls under assembly category. In this feature, Automobile Spare Part automobile business owner can enter assembly name as top line heading as well as individual components, their quantity and applicable rate of each component that falls under top line assembly.

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Barcode Labeling

  • In India most of the original part producing companies use barcode label for each of the part that they produce.
    Barcode label is not new concept for automobile industry. Acme’s  Barcode software module allows automobile business owners to use company owned barcode labels for billing process. Shop-owners can also generate their own design of barcode labels for those spare parts which are not having barcode labels. These barcode labels can be printed when master stock item entry is done while entering purchase bills in to Acme’s Insight software.

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CRM

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an important business function since competition across board is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR (Public Relation) activities to be done with actual buyers (like end customers, individual mechanics or garage owners & their staff) and for actual buyers to keep the brand alive, to increase business and to keep the trust level of business alive. Those features are as follows:-

  • Send transactional messages on mobile phones
    Acme’s Insight software allows automobile spare part shop owner to capture customer data. Here customer is actual buyer of the spare part and spare part is bought by individual mechanic or by service garage owner. Using this function, automobile spare part business can send text messages on buyer’s mobile phone. E.g. “Thank you very much for visiting our shop”, “Share your today’s buying experience with your friends”, etc. These types of inspirational messages create an emotional bonding for these buyers. They might or they will spread the brand of automobile shop to their other friends if this activity is consistent, accurate, in time and on time.
  • Send personal greeting text messages on mobile phone
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages to every mechanic and to every garage owners plus staff working in garage. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

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Accounting

Accounting is an integral part of every automobile spare part business. Acme’s Insight offers complete accounting on click of mouse button. Read below about features alias functions that are available under accounting feature group namely:-

  • VAT accounting
    Every month, every automobile business owner is forced to submit VAT report to respective government. VAT accounting is an important business task. Acme’s Insight software handles this part very systematically. When supplier’s bill is entered in to Insight? VAT paid on purchase bills is automatically added in to VAT paid register. When sales bill is printed on customers? VAT collected from customers is automatically added in to VAT collection register. When damaged spare parts are returned to stockiest using purchase return document? Difference of VAT is automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight and posted in to VAT register for purchase return. Whenever customer returns defective spare part or damage spare part? Acme’s Insight automatically calculates VAT on sales return and posts VAT difference amount in to VAT register on sales return.
  • Bank reconciliation
    Bank reconciliation is one of the most tedious tasks for every automobile business owner. Acme’s Insight software offers a feature by which bank reconciliation happens in lesser time. Kindly contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners office to see how this feature helps automobile business owner and save owners time.
  • Interest calculation
    In spar part business when bills are not paid in time, supplier or stockiest charge interest. This feature calculates the interest charged by the stockiest or by producer. Many automobile business owner keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by automobile business owner using this feature.
  • View and print Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Creditors report, Debtors report, etc. are the important documents that display health of automobile spare part business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, automobile business owner, accountant or staff does not have to have accounting knowledge to generate these reports. Acme’s Insight is developed in such a way that if automobile business owner (or staff) enter every purchase bill via Insight, sale every product via Insight, enter every receipt + payment + expenses via Insight, enter every sales return or purchase return via Insight! Reports will be automatically updated as soon as these entries are made in to Acme’s Insight software.
  • Create Daily/Monthly Series For Cash And Bank Vouchers
    This feature allows automobile business owner to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available via settings.
  • Export accounting data to Tally
    Many automobile business owners in India still avail or prefer the services of CA and/or professional tax consultant. In India, many CA’s and/or professional tax consultant use Tally software tool in their office. Insight's export accounting (only financial) data to Tally allows automobile business owner to share accounting data with tax professionals such as CA and Tax Practitioners. Having said this, automobile business owner can also generate accounting reports on their own. In addition, automobile business owner can also print various accounting registers using Insight like sales register, purchase register, credit register, debit register, cash payment register, cheque receipt register, expense register, bankbook, chequebook, etc. on click of mouse button.

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Sales and Purchase Return

Sales return and purchase return in automobile spare business. These are most unpleasant activities in automobile spare part business. No one likes it. They are unavoidable. These activities if controlled tightly & systematically from day one, it finally helps business to grow, to sustain and to make less losses. Acme’s Insight software understand these aspects correctly and offers great value for money in the form of features that helps business to grow, business to sustain and helps automobile business owner to make less losses or nil losses.

  • Sales return passing module
    Sales return is available in sales bill itself as well as sales return is also available via separate document. Sales return passing module is needed when sales return is undertaken by counter staff and sales return document is passed by the authority person. Authority person can decide how to reimburse customer for sales return. It could be product-to-product replacement in case sales return product is defective. It could be one product to another product exchange of same price or lower price or higher price in case sale return product is bought wrongly. It could be cash return to end customer in case sales return product is bought by the customer because it is already available with the customer. Choice completely resides on automobile business owner, customer and actual situation.
  • Purchase return passing module
    This feature also works like sales return. Here purchase return could be product is damaged or package is broken or wrong product delivered or product delivered without order.
  • Generation of debit note on instance of purchase return
    This feature allows purchase return document user to create debit not instantly to close the transactions.

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Report

Printed reports give an opportunity to shop-owner to work out various business strategies in terms of how to increase sale, how to add more products, how to discontinue with some suppliers, etc. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact on Indian mind that is emotional to every shop-owner than seeing the same report on computer monitor (screen). Acme’s Insight provides some standard printing reports. Moreover, Acme’s Insight also provide Report Writing module feature. Using this feature, shop-owner can generate customized reports as per the need of business. Following reports are available in Acme’s Insight namely

  • Stock report
    Stock report item wise, category wise, supplier wise, manufacture wise and price grouping wise. Reports are also available for fast selling items, dead or non saleable items, slow moving items, etc. Sales report product wise, category wise, value wise, quantity wise, etc. is available.
  • Accounting Reports
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debtor’s Registers, General Ledger, Profitability report, etc.
  • VAT report
    VAT paid report, VAT collected report, VAT difference report on purchase return and VAT difference report on sales return.
  • Print Date & Time on each report
    Acme’s Insight print date & time on each report so that trailing on each reports becomes easy. This function is available via settings.

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Back Office

There are many things (task in hand) that happen in automobile spare part business before automobile shop is opened for customers and after automobile shop is closed for customers. These activities (task in hand) fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down few features of Acme’s Insight that falls under Back-office category namely:-

  • Business Analysis and Intelligence
    Acme’s Insight software got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. E.g. Supplier wise sales, product wise sales, counter wise sales, product category wise sales, price group wise sales, etc. These reports are instantly available on computer monitor. They are updated as and when actual transaction happens within Insight software like entering purchase bill, selling items to customer, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, entering expenses, taking sales return, returning goods to supplier, etc.
  • Multiple firms
    Insight allows shop-owner to use this function in case shop-owner wants to maintain automobile business separately for various category of products. E.g., Two-wheeler part business under one firm, 4-wheeler auto part business in other firm, Oils + lubricants in another firm and after market products for 2-wheeler automobiles + 4-wheeler automobile under different firm. This feature allows shop-owner to reduce tax burden. This feature helps shop-owner to work out strategy on how to grow business, when, where, etc. This feature also helps shop-owner to decide whether to continue with loss making product lines or not.
  • Automatic back-up of Insight
    Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated via Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in automobile spare part shop.

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Super Shoppe & Bazar Retailers

Super Shoppe & Bazar Retailers
Acme’s Insight software handles multiple customers (buyers) on multiple counters with multiple needs with multiple schemes handled by multiple staff working in super market. Acme’s Insight software generates instant business intelligence alias business analysis about suppliers, about customers, about products, about schemes, about discounts, about gifts, etc. in shortest period helping Super Market business to grow. Acme’s Insight allows Super Market to introduce more local products (with high profit margins) attached with barcode label and in turn allows Super Market business to grow and earn more.

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Sales/Counter

In every super market entire day is divided in to two parts namely business hours and non business hours. In business hours product selling, creation of sales bill, sales return and receipt of items happens. In business hours one action that happens (at one or more billing counters) continuously and i.e. number of buyers (customers ) are standing in line to pay their bills so as to collect items or goods and take exit from the super market. Keeping billing counter neat, clean, and presentable is the need of super market. Keeping billing machine (at billing counter) ready for all the time is the need of business. Acme’s Insight offers many features. Acme’s Insight software product is the best buying bet for Super Market. Read each feature.

  • Type 10 sales bills at a time from single window
    Acme’s Insight allows to type 10 sales bills at a time from single window visible on computer screen or monitor.
  • Print sales bill immediately
    As soon as bill is typed by the user, user can print the sales bill on printer (thermal or dot matrix) using function keys support provided in Acme’s Insight.
  • Cashier module
    This software module keeps a track of impress amount given it to each cashier (daily) and cash collected across the day by each cashier. Cashier wise collection report is the outcome of this software module. Cashier module is useful wherever multiple billing users are appointed by super market business owner.
  • Use barcode or item code while generating sales bill.
    Some users working in Super Market prefer to use barcode. Some prefer to use item code. Acme’s Insight handles both the requirements.
  • Enter cash received from the customer
    This feature allows billing user to enter cash received from the customer. It keeps the record of sales bill amount, cash received from the customer and exchange or remaining cash paid back to the customer.
  • Automatically select free item or free gift item
    This function automatically alert billing user in case customer is offered some gift product or discount. Acme’s Insight software handles both. Free gift item as well as discount.
  • Loyalty card
    This feature allows Super Market owner to run loyalty card scheme to increase customer base for consistent purchase. This module helps Super Market owner to increase the business and to spread Super Market brand.
  • Multiple payment mode in sales bill
    Using this feature, sales bill creating user can accept multiple mode payment against single bill. E.g. customer pay some payment in cash and some via credit card.
  • Link the weight of bulk product purchase from weighing scale machine
    This feature allows sales bill user to capture the weight of bulk products purchased by the consumer. E.g. Consumer wants to purchase grocery items above 100 kilograms. In this case; first grocery items will be kept on weighing scale machine. Weighing scale machine will be connected to Windows based PC via serial port. Acme’s Insight software will capture the weight via serial port and captured weight will directly appear in sales bill.
  • Print sales bill in regional language
    This feature print sales bill in regional languages. This feature helps those consumers who do not read and understand English language sales bill. For such customers, printed sales bill in regional languages create more comfort and understanding.
  • Create Yadi (standard monthly grocery item template) for those customers who prefer to buy grocery and other essential products on month to month basis
    This feature allows sales billing user to copy complete list of purchased items (from the last bill) to create new sales bill. Customer and sales bill user can add more items or delete existing items.
  • Print sales bill without touching keyboard & mouse
    As soon as all the items are entered by the sales user in sales bill? User can use barcode machine gun and user can enter a unique barcode number in sales bill window and automatically that sales bill saves and printing starts immediately.
  • Print how much money is saved by consumer
    Acme’s Insight software automatically calculate MRP rate v/s actual sales rate and print the total amount saved by the customer in that sales bill. This feature gives emotional pride to the customer. It is being observed that such customers actually talk about this with pride to their friends.

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Stock and Inventory

Maintaining stock, tracking stock, updating stock, etc. are the key needs of Super Market business. Acme’s Insight offers multiple features in this category that helps business to grow, sustain and scalable.

  • Import purchase bill
    Entering purchase bill consumes lot of time. Acme’s offers import of purchase bill (computerized) from supplier. Kindly contact Acme’s office or partner’s office to know how to import purchase bill.
  • Enter and maintain batch wise Inventory
    Acme’s Insight software store item data with batch wise, date wise, etc. This feature is useful to super market business for all the eating products, for all grocery products, for all milk based products, and for all fast moving consumer products where batch number, manufacturing date and expiry date is mentioned. e.g. Milk and by products of milk. Fruit pulps & fruit juices. Tooth paste & Tooth powder. etc.
  • Alert for expired products and display alert as soon as Acme’s Insight is started
    This function alert Insight on daily basis and as & when product expires. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan
    Super Market can enter product master entry via delivery challan or via invoice.
  • Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
    Acme’s Insight software allows Insight users to validate purchase price and sale price while entering product master data. This feature validate accuracy of price factor.
  • Multiple storage locations (godown) within market premises and outside too.
    Using this feature, super market owner can maintain stock at various locations like stock available in godown and stock available in super market. In super market business premises, super market owner can name each rack with unique numbering system so that it becomes easy to keep the stock and to remove the stock.
  • Reorder level and Minimum order level quantity
    This feature allows super market staff to record minimum order level quantity and reorder level quantity for each item. This feature alert super market staff as soon as stock item reaches to minimum level. This feature allows super market owner to reorder items on respective suppliers.
  • Formula function for Item Master Entry
    Once the formula is set by super market business owner! Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight.
  • Add multiple attributes and properties to each item
    Acme’s Insight software is completely driven by stock data. Acme’s Insight software allows super market business owner to add multiple attributes or properties for each item.
  • Maintaining stock in multiple units and multiple packaging
    This feature allows super market staff to convert units of purchase items in to saleable items. E.g. grocery items are purchased in tons where as they are packed & sold in kilograms or in grams. Beauty products like soap, shampoo, hair oil, skin cream, etc. are purchased in boxes where as they are sold in peaces. Stationary items like notebooks and diary are purchased in dozens and sold as peaces.
  • Add free quantity while purchase bill is entered
    This feature allows super market business owner (or staff) to enter free quantity scheme offered by the original producer. Super Market owner can also introduce own scheme of free items. Added free quantity or product appears automatically in sales bill when typed.
  • Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows super market business owner (or staff) to enter multiple challans (received from supplier) for entering purchase details.
  • Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows Acme’s Insight to calculate purchase rate, sales rate and MRP rate when stock is entered in to Acme’s Insight software. This feature allows super market business owner (or staff) to define the formula for purchase price, sale price and MRP. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Lock sales rates in sales bill
    This function helps super market owner not to allow billing users to play with sales rates.
  • Create item wise category for entering items
    This function is useful to super market while entering grocery stocks and few selected FMCG products. E.g Grains can be defined as main category and under grains various types of grains (various names that are popular in grains) can be entered
  • Scheme module
    This feature allows super market business owner to run schemes for end customers. e.g. Monthly purchase schemes. Monthly savings schemes. Free gift scheme. Value purchase scheme. Buy 2 get 1 free scheme. Buy 3 get 1 free scheme, etc.
  • Show item balance while creating sales bill
    This feature display number of items available in stock while creating sales bill.
  • Production module/packaging module
    In super market business, number of grocery items are bought in bulk. These items are repacked in smaller packets. e.g., Wheat, Rice, Pulses, etc. are purchased in bags of 50 kilograms or 100 kilograms. These products are repacked in 500 grams packet or 1 kg packet or 5 kg packet in godown. Second E.g., Besan floor, Rice floor, Wheat floor, Sorghum floor, Bazari floor, Corn floor, Maida, Jad Pohe, Patal Pohe, Jad Rawa, Patal Rawa, etc. are purchased in 25 kg or 50 kg bags. These products are repacked in 250 gm packet, 500 gm packet and 1 kg packet in godown. These packets are labeled and then kept in super market for sale purpose. Acme’s Insight production module keeps the track of purchase as well as sales. Acme’s Barcode software module allow super market owner to create own brand of barcode labels.
  • Purchase bill module with approving authority
    Super Market staff can prepare purchase orders on suppliers. These purchase orders will appear on Super Market owner’s PC and/or on authorised person’s PC to approve. Authority person can recheck the purchase order, validate it with current stock and then approve the purchase order for further processing.
  • Ratio exception report
    This feature shows if there are discrepancies as regards to purchase rates for the products ordered by Super Market. This report educate & empower Super Market owner about the prices received from the supplier in earlier purchase bills and in current purchase bills.
  • Print barcode labels instantly as soon as stock items are entered
    This feature is useful since number of items in Super Market are more. This feature allows Super Market staff to print barcode labels for all those items where barcode label is not provided by the producing company. Super market business can also use company barcode label wherever supplied.

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Barcode Labeling

  •  Barcode label (on each product) is the soul of super market business.

Barcode label (on each product) is the soul of super market business. Acme has developed barcode software module.  Using this feature, Super Market can generate their own branded labels that can spread market brand. This feature also takes care of company’s barcode labels that are pre fixed on various products bought by Super Market. This function saves time, efforts, resources, barcode printer, barcode stationary, etc. Regeneration & reprinting of barcode labels.  This feature allows Super Market owner to redefine sales prices of those items which slow selling items. Using this feature, Smart Market owner can reduce the prices and reprint barcode labels once again.

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CRM

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for Super Market since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR activities to be done with actual buyers. Those are as follows:-

  • Send transactional messages on mobile
    Using this function market can send text messages as soon as sales bill is created. e.g. “Thank you very much for visiting our Market and giving us an opportunity to service your product need” or “Thank you for visiting our Market. We appreciate your time investment” or “Thank you very much for visiting our market and look forward to see you tomorrow”. These messages inspire buyers. These messages emotionally connect market with buyers mind. These messages helps buyer to spread good brand in their friend circle.
  • Send personal greeting messages
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages or emails for entire customer database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

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Accounting

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for Super Market since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR activities to be done with actual buyers. Those are as follows:-

  • Send transactional messages on mobile
    Using this function market can send text messages as soon as sales bill is created. e.g. “Thank you very much for visiting our Market and giving us an opportunity to service your product need” or “Thank you for visiting our Market. We appreciate your time investment” or “Thank you very much for visiting our market and look forward to see you tomorrow”. These messages inspire buyers. These messages emotionally connect market with buyers mind. These messages helps buyer to spread good brand in their friend circle.
  • Send personal greeting messages
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages or emails for entire customer database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

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Sales and Purchase Return

Sales return and purchase return, these are the two utmost unpleasant activities that happens in super market business. No one likes it. However, they are non-avoidable. These two activities if controlled tightly & systematically, it helps super market business to grow, to sustain and to make less losses. Acme’s Insight software understand these aspects correctly and offers value for money features that helps business to grow, business to sustain and helps super market business owner to make less losses.

  • Sales return passing module
    This feature is needed where physical sales return is undertaken by counter staff but sales return document is passed by the authority person. Authority person can decide how to reimburse end customer for sales return. It could be product to product replacement in case sales return product is defective. It could be one product to another product exchange of same price or lower price or higher price. It could be cash return to end customer. Choice completely resides on market authority and end consumer
  • Capture non moving or non saleable barcode label items and create purchase return document automatically on respective suppliers
    Acme’s Insight software offers this powerful feature. This feature allows Super Market staff to capture all those items that are getting sold for long time. Using barcode gun, staff can capture the barcode label and then Acme’s Insight will create purchase return document automatically created for respective suppliers within less time. This feature saves time, efforts, resources and money too. This feature helps to avoid mistakes & errors.

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Report

Printed reports give an opportunity to business owner, accountant or staff to work out various strategies. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional on every humankind than seeing same report electronically on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides some standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight also provide Report Writing module. Using this module, business owner or accountant or CA or tax consultant or staff can generate customized reports as per the need of business. Acme’s call center staff is available from 10.00 AM to 06.00 PM daily to help business owner on creating these reports. Business owner can use Phone, Internet Connectivity and Teamviewer tool for availing this help from Acme. Following reports are available in Acme’s Insight namely

  • Stock report
    Stock report item wise, category wise, supplier wise and producer wise. Fast selling items, dead items, slow moving items, etc. Sales report product wise, category wise, value wise, quantity wise, profit wise, etc.
  • Accounting Reports
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debtor’s Registers, General Ledger, Interest Calculation, Bank Reconciliation, Cheque book maintenance, Supplier wise blank cheque maintenance, etc.
  • VAT report
    VAT paid report, VAT collected report, VAT difference report on purchase return and VAT difference report on sales return, if any.
  • Print Date & Time on each report
    Acme’s Insight print date & time on each report so that trailing on each reports becomes easy. This function is available via settings.
  • Expired product report
    Daily report of products being expired.

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Back Office

There are many things (task in hand) that happen in market business before market is opened for consumers and market is closed for consumers. These activities (task in hand) fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down features of Acme’s Insight that falls under Back-office category namely:-

  • Business Analysis and Intelligence
    Acme’s Insight got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. e.g. Supplier wise sales, product wise sales, counter wise sales, product category wise sales, price group wise sales, etc. These reports are instantly available on computer monitor and they are updated as and when actual transaction happens in Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling items to customer, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, etc.
  • Multiple firms
    Acme’s Insight allows Super Market owner to create multiple firms in single premises. Using this feature, Super Market owner can reduce tax liability of the business. Acme’s Insight also allows Super Market owner to create single sales bill from multiple companies or multiple bills from multiple companies.
  • View customer ledger for multiple firms
    Acme’s Insight allows Smart Market owner or staff to view customer ledger from multiple firms. This feature is unique when Smart Market owner deploy Acme’s Insight for multiple firms.
  • Supplier data entry linked with manufacturing firms
    Acme’s Insight allows business owner can add manufacturing company names while creating supplier database. Efforts invested in data entry actually help business owner or staff when purchase order is created on these suppliers .Acme’s Insight software shows only those product names that are directly linked with supplier plus produced by concerned producers. This feature speed up the computer performance by showing limited product names than showing entire product names produced by countless firms.
  • Scheduler & task manger
    Acme’s Insight software offers another powerful feature that can be used before or after transaction hours. Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to add all those tasks that are also equally important like selling goods to customers or buying goods from suppliers like Renew various licenses, Submit VAT report, Submit VAT Challan, Pay VAT Submit IT Returns, etc. All these tasks can be added in to scheduler software by mentioning due date and advance date. Acme’s Insight will automatically send mobile message on advance date as well as on due date on business owner’s mobile phone.
  • Multiple on-line or off-line branch module
    Acme’s Insight offers this unique feature. It allows Super Market owner to open up multiple outlets within city or outside city too. These branches can be on-line or off-line. On-line branches will generate data in local machine but data will always get store on HO server PC. For on-line branches effective broad band connectivity is needed. Off-line branches will generate data in local machine. Data will be stored on local machine only. Once in a day or two times a day, off-line branch will push the data in HO server PC. For off-line branches, dial up and/or low band connectivity is needed.
  • Automatic back-up of Insight
    Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated via Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in automobile spare part shop. This is must activity. Do or die activity.

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Grocery Retailers

Grocery Retailers
Acme’s Insight software handles multiple customers (buyers) on multiple counters with multiple needs with multiple schemes handled by multiple staff working in super market. Acme’s Insight software allows grocery store alias Kirana Bhusar store to increase number of consistent by offering each customer value added service that is enchanting & inspiring. Acme’s Insight allows Grocery store alias Kirana Bhusar store to introduce more local products (with high profit margins) attached with barcode label and in turn allows Super Market business to grow and earn more.

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Sales/Counter

Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar counter is the most dynamic counter where countless actions happens across the day and year after year.  Keeping the counter pleasant, neat, clean, smiley, presentable and automated is the need of time. Using computer (one or two or multiple), printer (one or two or multiple), UPS, Inverter, etc. is the need of business. Using computer with Acme’s Insight software BAP (Business Application Processing) software add sugar in milk. Acme’s Insight BAP (Business Application Processing) software in 8 in 1. Acme’s Insight runs on single Windows based PC as well as on multiple Windows based PC’s connected on Windows Server or on Linux Server. Acme’s Insight saves huge time, efforts and money of Grocery or Kirana Bhusar owner and working staff. Acme’s Insight software helps and avoid mistakes or errors that happens because of ignorance, over confidence and (good or bad) habits. Acme’s Insight software helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business to grow by providing accurate business intelligence to the business owner through various features and functions. Let us read about each feature and read out how each feature benefit the business, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar shop owner, staff associated with the business and above all customers who buy countless grocery products.

  • Type 10 sales bills at a time
    This feature allows user working in Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar store to type ten sales bills at a time. This feature is needy since buyers at counters are always more and in numbers.
  • Create list of grocery items needed by the customer, then collect the cash, then print the sales bill and then deliver items to consumers.
    There are many Grocery or Kirana Bhusar owners in State of Maharashtra who follows this process. According to them this well tested & well proven process to avoid mistakes, errors, complaints & stealing.  Acme’s Insight software handles this process seamlessly and smoothly. This process do not allow buyer (customer alias consumer) to take undue advantage of the business.
  • Number of item names to be printed in single sales bill
    This feature allows business owner to decide number of item names to be printed on single sales bill. This feature is useful to the business since number of items asked by the customers are unknown. They could one or more. More is not fixed and it is unpredictable.
  • Number of copies to be printed of single sales bill
    This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to decide number of copies to be printed for each sales bill.  This feature is useful when billing counter and delivery counter is kept separately.  One copy can be retained by the billing user and one copy by the customer after products are delivered by the delivery person standing on delivery counter.  Acme’s Insight software also provide printing of gate pass feature wherever consumer is asked to take the delivery of goods from a different location.  This location could be at the backside of Grocery or Kirana Bhusar store.  This feature is applicable wherever billing location and delivery location is different.
  • Save + Print Bill Immediately After Entry
    This feature in the form of settings allows billing user to print the bill as soon as it is created & saved.
  • Round Sales Bill and method
    This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to decide how rounding to be done when final sales bill is prepared and rounding method to be used for rounding purpose. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Default Memo Type In Sales Bill
    This function allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to decide what type of sales bill to be prepared as default. Choices are cash bill, credit card bill, credit bill or combination of all three. This feature is available via settings.
  • Use Itemcode and Customer code while creating sales bill
    In grocery business, many customers are regular buyers. They prefer to buy grocery products on monthly basis or weekly basis or once in fifteen days.  In India, these consumers prefers to settle their bills on monthly basis.  Acme’s Insight allows billing user to create sales bill by selecting customer name by code and then item name by code too. These codes can be decided by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner or by staff on their comfort level.
  • Show customer balance in pick list
    This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or billing user to get accurate information about outstanding payment when credit customer visit (again) to buy more products. More over, when Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or billing user click on each visible outstanding amount, they can also get more information about each bill and items bought in each bill.
  • Pick list by letters in sales bill
    This is customizable feature available for settings. By this feature, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or billing user can decide how pick list of items to be selected in sales bill. Here they got 3 choices, first character of the product, first two characters of the product or first three characters of the product. Once the setting is selected, UI (user interface) of sales bill will act accordingly. User’s comfort is addressed accurately in Acme’s Insight since definition of users comfort changes from city to city and from state to state.
  • Allow Multiple Payment Details In Sales Bill
    This function helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or cash counter staff to accept multiple payments for single sales bill namely collect some payment in cash, collect some payment by cheque, collect some payment by credit card, some payment by electronic transfer and/or keep some payment as credit.
  • Show and print items location/rack wise
    When sales bill is printed! Printed bill can display location of item. This function helps delivery staff to take out products quickly than searching for the products across the shop.
  • Enter received cash from customer in sales bill
    This feature force billing user to enter received amount from the customer. As soon as received amount from customer is entered in sales bill. Acme’s Insight automatically calculate amount to be returned (if any) to the customer. Sales bill amount, received cash from customer and exchange returned to the customer, all three records are stored by Acme’s Insight software in sales bill as well as they are printed on sales bill too.
  • Yadi (List of monthly grocery items) function. Copy previous sales bill of customer and create new sales bill by copying all the items purchased in last sales bill
    Using this feature, billing user can copy previous monthly grocery sales bill. Billing user can copy all the items from previous bill and can create fresh sales bill. Billing user can add more items or can delete items too if customer insist. This feature saves huge time and efforts of billing staff and customer too.
  • Print sales bill in regional languages
    Acme’s Insight software offers this feature by which English language entered sales bill is automatically printed in regional language. This feature is required by all those businesses where English sales bill is not read and understood by the buyers.
  • Operate Customized Scheme
    This feature is useful when business owner wants to create his/her own defined schemes for regular customers who buy grocery items in bulk.

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Stock and Inventory

Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business is completely driven by number of saleable products available in the outlet. Let us repeat. Saleable products. Keeping tight control on saleable (as well as non saleable & dead) items is the need of business. Regular update of stocks, regular checking and physical checking of stock helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to grow the business, to sustain in business with profits and to make less losses. Acme’s Insight software offers following features:-

  • Import computerized purchase bill received from supplier
    Entering purchase bill consumes huge time of Insight user and Acme understand this very well. To save time, efforts, avoiding mistakes & errors while entering purchase bill (suppliers), Acme’s Insight software allows Insight user to import supplier’s bill generated on computer. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partner’s office on how to import computerized bill in Acme’s Insight software.
  • Batch wise and category wise Inventory
    Acme’s Insight software allows user working in Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business to store grocery products batch wise and category wise. Here batch could be actual batch number printed on grocery bags, it could challan number & date from supplier.
    Entering grocery products and other FMCG products batch wise (or category wise) helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to understand age wise stock. This is very important feature and it must be used by every owner.
  • Warning of expiry date for grocery and FMCG products
    This is another feature that can be used for some of the grocery items, some of the eating products and some of the products from FMCG.e.g. Items like toothpaste, tooth powder, etc. carry expiry dates.  Items like Rawa, Besan aata, Gahu Aata, etc. also carry expiry dates etc. Various sauce’s carry expiry dates. All these items must be entered with batch wise and with expiry date.  Acme’s Insight alert billing user as soon as these products are out expiry date. Expiry alert can be set in advance for number of days.
  • Raise Expired Product Warning Alert While Starting Program
    This feature must be used by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner. This feature alert Insight user about expiry of products as soon as Insight software is started.                                       
  • Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan            
    There are many Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar suppliers who raise the bill once in a month or once in fifteen days. Why? We don’t know. But we know they don’t raise the bills when they delivery goods. These suppliers supply their products only with delivery challan. Acme’s Insight software allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to enter product details using delivery challan and invoice too.
  • Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
    Acme’s Insight software allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to validate purchase rate and sale rate while entering product data. This feature empower & educate Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to validate accuracy of purchase rate + sales rate that is utmost important to every business including Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar.
  • Multiple stocking (store) locations
    Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can keep and maintain stock at multiple locations within business premises. These locations can be numbered or names can be given for each location or rack. By following this process, delivery staff can remove those items when delivery of these items takes place. This process also help delivery staff when goods arrive from suppliers office. Delivery staff can keep fresh goods in respective locations or racks.
  • Enter minimum level quantity and reordering quantity
    Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can set minimum quantity level and reorder quantity level for all those products that are fast moving (fast selling) in business. This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to reorder these items quickly.
  • Formula function for product master entry
    This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to follow and to adopt about sale price to be defined for each item. Once the formula is set by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner, Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight by entering purchase rate picked up from suppliers bill.
  • Add multiple attributes for grocery products
    Acme’s Insight is completely driven by stocking features. This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to keep a track of each supplier and products coming from respective supplier.
  • Maintaining stock in multiple units and multiple packing’s
    This feature keeps the track of what is purchased and how is sold?
    e.g. Grocery items are bought in bags of 25 kg or 50 kg. They are repacked and sold to consumer in 500 gm pack, 1 kg pack and in 5 kg pack. Same process can be adopted for Gehu (Grains) Aata, Jwari (Sorghum) Aata, Bajari Aata, Besan Aata, etc. Same process can be applied for stationary items. Notebooks are purchased in dozens or in boxes and sold to consumers in peace, peaces, number or numbers. Same process can be applied for FMCG products like soap, shampoo, hair oil, etc.
  • Add free quantity while purchase bill entered
    This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to enter free quantity scheme offered by the original producer or by the stockiest. This function helps for stock as well as when sales bill is generated on customers.
  • Display batch details while entering master item
    This feature allows business owner or staff to see about items already having in stock. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows business owner and staff to enter various delivery challan numbers. This is need of time since generating purchase bill and delivery challan is under control of original producers. Normally producer generates delivery challan batch wise and invoices are printed only when complete delivery is ready for for a particular batch. It is being found that one invoice comprises of one or more delivery challan and that’s how this feature helps the business. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
    This feature allows Acme’s Insight to calculate purchase rate, sales rate and MRP rate when stock is entered. This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to define the formula for purchase price, sale price and MRP. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Define default rates and user definable rates
    Both these options (Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill and define default rates plus user definable rates) are available in the form of settings. Setting default rates helps sales billing user to create quick bill. User definable rates helps sales billing user to type different rates for regular customers who buy grocery in bulk.
  • Lock sales rates in sales bill
    This function is available in the form of settings. This function helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner not to allow billing users to play with sales rates.
  • Create batch wise or group wise category for entering batch wise or group wise products.
    This function is useful specifically for grocery items. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can keep the track of supplier and grocery goods arriving from respective supplier.
    e.g. Create Gehu (Grains) as a category and then enter various categories of Gehu (Grain) bags received from the supplier. e.g. In Indian market, Gehu (grains) are available in categories like Lokwan, Makhanmalai, etc.
  • Allow free items
    This feature allows purchase bill entry user to add free items if they are offered by the original supplier or by stockiest. This feature also helps sales bill creator while generating sales bill.
  • Scheme module and Loyalty card
    This feature allows business owner to run scheme for customers so that they are inspired to buy more products from Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar store. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner can also run loyalty card for those consumers who buy only monthly grocery items from the shop.
  • Show item balance while creating sales bill
    This function is linked with stock data. Here Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can decide how balance to be shown after item is selected in sales bill namely after entry of every item or after entry of 20 items. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar Business owner can decide as per their comfort and as per their business process. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Facility to change sales rate for selected grocery items
    Like Gold or silver business, there are many grocery items where buying and selling rates are changed every day. These rates can be changed for bulk quantity too.  e.g. Rice, Sugar, Pulses, Jiggery, etc. Acme’s Insight software allows to change the sales rates of these items daily.
  • Production module (BOM)
    Acme’s Insight software allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to create own packs of grocery items under their business brand or name.  e.g. Buy pulses in bags (25 kg or 50 kg) and then repack pulse in 500 gm pack or 1 kg. pack.  Buy grains in bags (50 kg or 100 kg) and then repack grains in 500 gm, 1 kg. and in 5 kg. packs. Buy spices in kilograms and then repack them in 25 grams, 50 grams and 100 gms packets.

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Barcode Labeling

  • Getting skill, low cost & low overheads worker for grocery business is becoming difficult.
    Now-a-days getting skill, low cost & low overheads worker for grocery business is becoming difficult day by day. Multinational and multi city or multi state Indian Retail stores realized this problem long back. Most of them introduced barcode labeling system in their business. Each product with barcode label helps to raise sales bill within less time. Look at Reliance Mart, D Mart, Big Bazaar, More, etc.  In India very few grocery outlets opted for this system. Acme’s Insight software is already geared up for this business need long back. Acme offers barcode software module as an optional module. Using barcode software module, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can design, create, generate & print own barcode labels. Acme’s Insight software also allow Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner to use company printed barcode labels.

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CRM

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for every Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR (public relation) activities to be done with actual buyers of grocery items. Those are as follows:-

  • Send transactional messages on mobile phones
    Using this function, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can send transactional messages to regular buyers reminding them to order more grocery items. Message can be also sent when goods are delivered to customer’s home on credit. Message can be also sent to remind consumer about payment.
  • Send personal greeting messages
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages to entire existing customer database of bulk grocery buyers. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

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Accounting

Accounting is an integral part of every business. Acme’s Insight offers complete accounting on click of mouse button. Read below about features alias functions that are available under Accounting feature group namely:-

  • VAT accounting
    Every month, every Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner is forced to submit VAT report to respective government. VAT accounting is an important business task. Acme’s Insight software handles this part very systematically. When suppliers bills are entered in to Insight? VAT paid on purchase is automatically added in to VAT paid register. When sales bill is printed on customer, VAT collected from customer is automatically added in to VAT collection register. When expired FMCG/Grocery products or damaged FMCG/Grocery products are returned to suppliers using purchase return document? Difference of VAT is automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight and posted in to VAT register for purchase return. Whenever customer return FMCG products for damaged packaging? Acme’s Insight automatically calculate VAT on sales return and post it in to VAT report on sales return.
  • Bank reconciliation
    Bank reconciliation is one of the most tedious task for every Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner. Acme’s Insight software offers a feature by which bank reconciliation happens in lesser time. Kindly contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners office to see how this feature helps business owner and save owners time.
  • Interest calculation
    In Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business, supplier charge interest when bills are not paid in time. This feature calculate the interest being charged by the supplier. Many Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner using this feature available in Acme’s Insight.
  • View and print Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Creditors, Debtors, etc. are the important documents that display health of retail business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner, accountant or staff does not have to have accounting knowledge to generate these reports. Acme’s Insight is developed in such a way that if Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner, accountant and staff enter every purchase bill, enter every receipt, every payment, sale every product, enter every payment + expenses, enter every sales or purchase return using Acme’s Insight! These reports will automatically be updated as soon as these entries are made in to Acme’s Insight.
  • Create Daily / Monthly Series For Cash And Bank Vouchers
    This feature allows business owner to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available in the form settings.
  • Export accounting data to Tally
    Many business owners in India still avail or prefer the services of CA or professional tax consultant. In India, many CA’s or professional tax consultant use Tally software tool in their office. Insight's export accounting data to Tally feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to share accounting data with such tax professionals. Having said this, business Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can also generate accounting reports like balance sheet, P&L statement, trial balance sheet, creditor’s list, debater’s list, etc. on his or her own. In addition, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can also print various business registers like sales register, purchase register, bank book, cashbook, creditors list, debtors list, receipts, expenses, payment, etc. on click of mouse button.
  • Alerts & budgeting for suppliers
    Acme’s Insight offers alert for the payment due to various suppliers as well as payment to be received from consumers.

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Sales and Purchase Return

Sales return and purchase return, both the words, activities associated with these two words and task associated with these two words, no one likes it. They are unavoidable. Acme’s Insight offers some unique and value for money features namely:-

  • Sales return in sales bill itself
    Acme’s Insight offers sales return in sales bill itself if sales return happens same day. Other wise, sales return by separate document is also available.
  • Purchase return for expired items
    Acme’s Insight automatically create purchase return for the stocks that are expired and located in product racks as well as stocks arrived via sales return. Purchase return document is automatically created on respective suppliers.

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Report

Printed reports give an opportunity to Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to work out various strategies on how to grow business. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional on every Indian business owner than seeing the same report on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides some standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight also provide Report Writing module. Using this module, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or accountant or CA or tax consultant or staff can generate customized reports as per the need of business.

  • Stock report
    Stock report item wise, category wise, bag (packing wise) wise, supplier wise, price group wise, etc. are available.
  • Accounting Reports
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debater’s Registers, General Ledger, etc.
  • VAT report
    Acme’s Insight generates VAT reports namely VAT paid, VAT collected, VAT report on purchase return and VAT report on sales return. All these are crucial reports needed by the business.
  • Print Date & Time on each report
    Acme’s Insight print date & time on each report so that trailing on each report becomes easy. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Expired grocery items & FMCG items supplier wise
    This report helps business owner to decide what to do with expired items. Keeping expired items in retail outlet can be danger, unhealthy and may be against FDA or Government laws and rules.

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Back Office

There are many things (task in hand) that happen before business starts and after business is closed. These activities (task in hand) fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down features of Acme’s Insight that falls under Back-office category namely:-

  • Business Analysis and Intelligence
    Acme’s Insight got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. E.g. Supplier wise sales, product sales, counter sales, salesperson wise sales, profitability of the business, etc. These reports are instantly available and they are updated as and when actual transaction happens in Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling products to customers, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, entering expenses, etc.
  • Multiple firms with single sales bill or with multiple sales bills
    Using this feature business owner can divide grocery business in multiple business firms so as to reduce tax burden & liability. The best thing about this feature is like this. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can print single sales bills for multiple companies or can print multiple sales bills for multiple firms. As soon as sales bill is saved & printed, Accounting effect to multiple firms is seamlessly handled by Acme’s Insight.
  • Scheduler and task manager
    Acme’s Insight software offers this another useful feature. Using this feature, grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can enter all other important business tasks like renewal of shop act license, payment for utility bills, payment for insurance premium, payment for mobile + land line + Internet, vehicle insurance premium, vehicle maintenance, etc. Acme’s Insight will send an alert text message on mobile phone owned by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner.
  • Security system
    Acme’s Insight software provides user based accessing and security system. By this system, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can create one or more users within the system. These users can be defined as per the role of that user. e.g. Create sales bill user. This user will get access to all the features that are linked to sales bill. But this user will not get access to use accounting features, view or print reports, see business intelligence data, use purchase functions, etc.
  • Automatic back-up of Insight
    Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated via Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in automobile spare part shop. This is must activity.

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Pharmaceutical Retailers

Pharmaceutical Retailers
 
Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to handle multiple customers, suppliers and local FDA officer needs alias requirements in shortest period. Acme’s Insight helps medicine retailer to increase profits and to make less losses by having tight control on medicine stock available in shop. Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to follow FDA (Food & Drug Authority of India) compliance (rules and laws) by investing lesser time.

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Sales/Counter

In medical retail business, sales counter is the most dynamic and happening area. Many people with different needs visit the sales counter namely customers, sales staff from medical distributors office, delivery staff from medical distributors office, payment collection staff from medical distributors office, FDA (Food & Drug Authority of India) officer. Each visitor wants something. Customer wants to buy medicine or want to replace medicine or want to return medicine. Sales staff wants purchase order or wants to inform medical retailer about scheme available on bulk purchase. Delivery staff wants to deliver medicines and want medical retailer’s signature on delivery challan. Payment collection staff wants to deliver invoice for the supplied medicines and want payment against pending invoices. Local FDA (Food & Medicine Authority of India) officer wants to know Scheduled medicine stock like nrx or schedule h. Officer wants to know how much stock is purchased and from whom, officer wants to when, how many and sold to whom, when and on which doctor’s recommendation, etc. All listed demands happens daily. Keeping the counter pleasant, neat, clean, smiley, presentable and automated is the need of time. Keeping Windows based PC adds more aesthetics to medical retailing business. Using PC daily is medical retail business need. Using PC with Acme’s Insight BAP (Business Application Processing) software add sugar in milk. Acme’s Insight BAP (Business Application Processing) software in 8 in 1. Acme’s Insight can save huge time, efforts and money of medical retailer and working staff. Acme’s Insight BAP software helps business to grow by providing accurate business intelligence data to medical retailer through various features that are developed to help the business and owner. Let us read about each feature and read how each feature benefit the business, medical retailer, customers, suppliers and FDA officer,

  • Handle 10 customers at a time via typing 10 sales bills at a time
    Acme’s Insight allows medical retailer to create 10 sales bills at a time. This feature benefit medical retailer to handle multiple customers standing at counter.
  • Number of copies to be printed of single sales bill
    This feature is useful when medical retailer is using Deskjet or Laser printer or thermal printer to print sales bill. If medical retailer is using carbon inserted paper stationary and dot matrix printer! This feature is not needed.
  • Print sales bill as soon as sales bill entry is over
    This feature in the form of settings allows to print sales bill as soon as it is created & saved.
  • Auto Select Batch In Sales Bill and add multiple batches
    This feature automatically selects the batch number of the selected medicine in sales bill. User can select near expiry batch medicine over long expiry batch medicine. e.g. Customer asks for 4 strips of Crocin tablet. Medical retailer is having Crocin strip stocks in 2 batches. 2 strips with A particular batch and 10 strips with B particular batch. Acme’s Insight automatically pick up 2 strips from A batch and 2 strips from B batch.
  • Select Sales Return Batch First While Auto Selecting Batch
    This feature helps user to select that medicine which arrived in shop under sales return. This feature helps medical retail to reduce saleable stock (first) by reselling it immediately than touching other stock kept in racks.
  • Default Memo Type In Sales Bill
    This function helps medical retailer to decide what type of sales bill to be prepared as default. Choices are cash bill, credit card bill, credit bill or multiple. This feature is available in form of settings.
  • Flash message for medicines and customers having outstanding
    Acme’s Insight alert & flash message when medicine is out of stock, expired, near to expire and reached to minimum quantity. Flash message feature is linked with customer database and sales billing. Whenever pending cash customer visit shop to buy more medicines, While making sales bill, as soon as customer name is selected, Acme’s Insight software alert billing user about payment due from selected customer. This feature helps medical retailer to keep tight control on outstanding.This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Reference person (Doctor) entry in sales bill
    This feature helps medical retailer to add doctor’s name in sales bill in reference space. This feature helps medical retailer to find out total amount of business collected by each reference person name. Here medical retailer can add doctor’s name, medical laboratory name and medical consultant name.
  • Use Itemcode and Customer code while creating sales bill
    There are many users who prefer to create sales bill by remembering item code (than item name) and using customer code (than customer name). This feature helps user to use code than searching item or customer by name. This feature is available in the form of settings.
  • Alert on Sales Bill UI (User interface) for shortage of medicines and expiry of medicines
    This alert automatically appears as soon as create new sales bill function is used by user. This alert empower and educate user about medicines that are not available in stock as well as medicines in stock whose expiry is already over. This alert allows medical retailer to take a decision about reordering medicines that are in short supply and to return medicines that are already expired. This feature is the need of medical retail business. Acme’s Insight use different colors for showcasing these alerts namely Red color for expiry products, Orange color for block products, Purple color for ban batch products, Khaki color for unpassed batched products and Yellow color for near to expiry products.
  • Allow Multiple Payment collection Details In Sales Bill
    This function allows medical retailer to select multiple payment modes while creating sales bill. Here multiple payment modes mean cash, credit card, cheque and credit too. For each mode, medical retailer can enter required details like for credit card, Credit card owner name, credit card number, type of credit card and amount to be collected via credit card. For cheque, cheque number, cheque date, bank name, branch name and amount.
  • Show Stock Of Default Location Only For Retail Item Pick List
    This function is important and helpful when medical retailer is having more than one location for the stock of medicines. When sales bill is created. Acme’s software will show case medicine database from default location and i.e. shop. Medical retailer can also give different naming convention or numbering for each rack so that storing of medicines, removing medicines, replacing medicines, etc. can happen smoothly. More over, giving names or number to each rack can help staff too to find out the medicine for billing purpose.
  • Ask For Received Amount While Saving Retail Bill
    This feature allows medical retailer to enter currency note given by the customer. As soon as collected amount from customer is entered in to sales bill! Acme’s Insight software immediately inform user about the amount to be returned from received cash. Both records i.e. received cash and returned cash along with sales bill amount is stored in to sales bill. This function is helpful when counter is flooded with multiple customers.
  • Display Composition (Ingredients) on Item pick list entry window.
    This function is helpful where customer ask counter sales bill person about the chemical composition that is used in ordered medicines.
  • Allow Document Scanning In Retail
    This feature in Acme’s Insight is important whenever customer asks for Schedule H1 medicines. FDA rule and law says Schedule H1 medicines must be sold when original doctor’s prescription is shown by the customer while purchasing. This feature allows user to capture the image of doctor’s prescription note using mobile phone attached to PC or by web camera attached to PC. Prescription note image is attached to generated sales bill electronically and it is stored in sales bill master database. This feature is useful when FDA officer give surprise visit to medical retail outlet to find out about Schedule H1 medicine stock, sale & purchase. This feature saves medical retailer’s character and business brand.
  • Capture customer details for credit sales bill
    This feature push user to capture customer details when customer asks for credit. Details like customer name, address, city, Pincode, mobile, email, etc. are captured by billing software UI (user interface). Till the time these details are not captured,  Bill is not saved and printed. This feature helps medical retailer to keep a tight control on credit customers and outstanding.
  • Standard Prescription facility for regular customers
    Using this feature, user can store medicine details in standard prescription form. When patient visit to buy standard medicines,  Acme’s Insight software shows standard prescription note for various customers. Billing user can select appropriate customer from the list and medicine names available on standard prescription note are automatically copied for the fresh sales bill. This feature saves time, effort, money of business staff and patient too.
  • Lock sales rate greater than MRP
    Medical retail business needs to follow various rules & laws as regards to prices. Acme’s Insight offers this feature whereby billing user is not allowed to modify MRP. In turn, protecting medical retailer and business from breaking laws & rules setup by government and associated business bodies working with government for medicine industry.
  • Reduce bill amount and quantity is automatically reduced by the logic developed in Acme’s Insight software.
    Acme’s Insight offers a feature that is required all across India. Whenever customer arrive in medical retail shop to buy medicines, They are not aware about the total cost that would be needed to buy medicines prescribed by the doctor. It is observed that many times customers do not carry sufficient amount. When medical retailer prepare the sales bill for the prescribed medicines! These patients express their inability to pay the total bill amount. Instead, they inform medical retailer that we got only so much of cash in hand. Would you please reduce the quantity so that we can buy medicines, Acme’s Insight does this job instantly. Medical retailer can enter the amount that is available with customer. Instantly quantities are reduced appropriately and logically.
  • Separate sales billing series for schedule H1 or schedule medicines
    Acme’s Insight offers this feature for sales bill. Whenever medical retailer select schedule H1 or schedule medicines in sales bill, Acme’s Insight generates a different series of sales bill. This function actually helps medical retailer when FDA officer or staff visit their retail outlet and when FDA officer ask for schedule H1 or schedule medicines report.
  • Provide sales bill print from general sales
    Acme’s Insight offers this feature where by whenever customer buy generic medicines or other healthcare products, Normally this bill is immediately saved but not printed. In case, buyer comes again and visit medical retail outlet and ask for printed sales bill, Acme’s Insight got this function to generate and print sales bill for the ordered generic medicines and other healthcare products.
  • Facility to show substitute medicines in sales bill
    Acme’s Insight show case substitute generic medicines asked by the buyer to the user while sales bill is created. Here similar or identical generic medicine information with different names and producers is displayed. This feature helps medical retailer not to loose customer who wants to buy generic medicine.

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Stock and Inventory

Retail business generates great profits when business works smoothly, seamlessly & smartly. And that too when saleable stock is available in medical retail shop. So entering stock, updating stock, monitoring stock, tracking stock, etc. are the key task in hand for each medical retailer. Acme’s Insight offers many features for stock entry, stock update, stock maintenance, etc. Read more about it.

  • Import purchase bill
    Entering purchase bill consumes huge time of medical retailer. To save time, efforts, avoiding mistakes & errors, Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to import supplier’s bill generated in Acme’s Insight software, Dava Software or Medivision software. Acme’s Insight software also allows importing purchase bill received by medical retailer in CSV format. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners office to get this feature enabled.
  • Batch Wise Inventory
    Acme’s Insight software maintain medicine data batch wise (batch number, batch date & expiry date). This process helps medical retailer while making sales bill, while taking sales return and while returning medicines to medical wholesaler or medical distributor.
  • Expiry Warning Start Before “N” number of Days from the date Of Expiry and Lock Batch Before “N” number of Days from the date Of Expiry
    This feature allows medical retailer to decide when Acme’s Insight should warn medical retailer about expiry of medicines. “N” number can be entered by medical retailer. This function is available in the form of settings. Second feature will help medical retailer to lock the batch of medicines. This function is available in the form of settings.
  • Raise Expired Product Warning While Starting Program
    This feature enables to display report of all those medicines that are already expired. This alert appears on computer screen (monitor) as soon as Acme’s Insight software is started. This alert helps medical retailer to take quick action on expired goods.
  • Special Series and different color codification for Scheduled H medicines as well as for other schedule medicines
    Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to create different sales bills for Schedule H1 medicines and different for generic medicines. More over, medical retailer can define customised color for Scheduled H1 medicines. This helps medical retailer (or billing user and if any) while creating sales bill for customer. In addition, Acme’s Insight software also force medical retailer to add patient name, doctor’s name and doctor’s number while creating schedule H1 medicine sales bill. Acme’s Insight also got an option to capture image of doctor’s prescription note to attach with sales bill. As of now no one offers this feature that Acme’s Insight offers.
  • Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan
    There are many medical distributors or wholesalers who supply medical medicines on delivery challan since generating sales bill daily specifically for one tablet strip or one medicine bottle is not profit making. This is what we heard when one of the ACME’s staff attended medical retailer and distributors meeting in Belagavi city, State: Karnatak. In turn, these suppliers supply medicines using delivery challan. These suppliers generate sales bill once a day. Acme’s Insight allows such medical retailers to enter medicine data (name, batch, rate, expiry date, etc.) using delivery challan.
  • Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
    Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to validate purchase price and sale price while entering medicine master data. This feature empower & educate medical retailer to validate accuracy of price factor that is utmost important to business.
  • Minimum order level and reordering quantity
    While entering medicine master data, medical retailer can enter minimum order level and reordering quantity. This feature can be used for fast selling medicines. It helps medical retailer while reordering these medicines when they reach minimum level. Alert function is also available (in the form of scrolling message below sales bill window) where by medical retailer is alerted as soon as stock level reaches to minimum quantity level. Automatic reordering feature is also available in Acme’s Insight.
  • Formula function for Item Master Entry
    Acme’s Insight software another function to follow and to adopt about sale price to be defined for each medical item. Once the formula is set by medical retailer, Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight.
  • Add multiple attributes or properties to each item (Substitute)
    Acme’s Insight software is completely driven by stock data. Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to add multiple attributes or properties for each item. e.g. There are many generic medicines where chemical composition is same. Medical can add chemical composition properties in master item data. By adding these properties, Acme’s Insight allows medical retailer to offer substitute product similar to that product asked by the customer. If customer understand and agree to buy, Medical retailer can sale the product. This function helps medical retailer not to lose customer.
  • Maintaining stock in multiple units and multiple packaging
    This feature allows medical retailer to maintain stock in multiple units and packaging. e.g. Tablets can be stored in strips as well as individual tablet. Liquid medicines can be stored in packs as well as single bottle. Cotton can be stored in box as well as individual packet. Sanitary napkins can be stored in box as well as individual peaces.

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Barcode Labeling

  • Getting (low cost & low overheads) worker for medical retail business is becoming difficult
    Now-a-days getting (low cost & low overheads) worker for medical retail business is becoming difficult day by day. Multinational medical retail firms realized this problem long back. Most of the multinational medical retail firms introduced barcode labeling system for all saleable products. Product with barcode label helps to bill the customer within less time.
    In India, some medical retailers understood this concept and started working towards it. Acme offers barcode software module. This module is optional. It is tightly integrated with Insight. Using barcode software module, medical retail can use company owned barcode for billing as well as medical retail owner can also design, create & print owned barcode labels. Barcode label products helps to generate sales bill quickly.

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CRM

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (i.e Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for every medical retail. Medical retailer since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR (public relations) activities to be done with medical retailers, suppliers, MR’s, etc. Those are as follows:-

  • Send transactional messages on mobile
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight software will automatically send text message as soon as sales bill is generated and saved. These messages could be “Thank you for buying medicines”, “get well soon”, “we pray for speedy recovery”, “your monthly medicines are due for purchase”, etc.These messages creates a great impact on buyers mind. Impact inspires buyers to talk about medical retailer. Discussing medical retailer daily helps business to grow.
  • Send person greeting messages on mobile
    Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages for entire customer database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

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Accounting

Accounting is an integral part of every business. Acme’s Insight offers complete accounting on click of mouse button. Read below about features available under accounting feature group namely:-a

  • VAT accounting
    Every month, every medical retailer is forced to submit VAT report to respective government. VAT accounting is an important business task. Acme’s Insight software handles this part very systematically. When suppliers bills are entered in to Insight? VAT paid on purchase is automatically added in to VAT paid register. When sales bill is printed on customer? VAT collected from customer is automatically added in to VAT collection register. When expired medicines or damaged medicines are returned to suppliers using purchase return document? Difference of VAT is automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight and posted in to VAT register for purchase return. Whenever customer return the medicines for damaged packaging? Acme’s Insight automatically calculate VAT on sales return and post it in to VAT report on sales return.
  • Bank reconciliation
    Bank reconciliation is one of the most tedious task for every medical retailer. Acme’s Insight software offers a feature by which bank reconciliation happens in lesser time. Kindly contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners office to see how this feature helps medical retailer and how this feature saves medical retailers time.
  • Interest calculation
    In medical retail business, supplier charge interest when bills are not paid in time. This feature calculate the interest being charged by the supplier. Many medical retailers keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by medical retailer using this feature available in Acme’s Insight.
  • View and print Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Creditor’s list, Debtor’s list, etc. are the important documents that display health of retail business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, medical retailer, accountant or staff doesn’t have to have accounting knowledge to generate these reports. Acme’s Insight is developed in such a way that if medical retailer, accountant and staff enter every purchase bill, sale every product, enter every cash/bank payment + expenses, enter every sales or purchase return, enter every cash/bank receipts using Acme’s Insight! These reports will automatically be updated as soon as these entries are made in to Acme’s Insight.
  • Create Daily/Monthly Series For Cash And Bank Vouchers
    This feature allows medical retailer to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available via settings.
  • Export accounting data to Tally
    Many medical retailers in India still avail or prefer the services of CA or professional tax consultant. In India, many CA’s and professional tax consultant use Tally software tool in their office. Insight's export accounting data to Tally feature allows medical retailer to share accounting data with such professionals. Having said this, medical retailer can also generate accounting reports like balance sheet, P&L statement, trial balance sheet, etc. on his or her own. In addition, medical retailer can also print various business registers like sales, purchase, bank, cashbook, creditors, debtors, expenses, receipts, payment, etc. on click of mouse button.

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Sales and Purchase Return

Sales return and purchase return no one likes. But they are unavoidable. Acme’s Insight offers value for money features that benefits medical retailer to handle these two unwanted tasks.

  • Sales return in sales bill itself
    Acme’s Insight billing software module allows medical retailer to accept sales return in sales bill itself.
  • Automatic transfer of expired medicines in to purchase return document
    Acme’s Insight software automatically transfer expired medicines in to purchase return document. This feature saves time, efforts & money of medical retailer. These items could be from sales return document and/or these items could be residing in shop.

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Back Office

There are many things that happen in every medical retail outlet before business starts and after business is closed. These activities fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down features of Acme’s Insight that falls under Back-office category namely:-

  • Business Analysis and Intelligence
    Acme’s Insight got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. e.g. Supplier wise sales, product sales, counter sales, salesperson wise sales, profitability of the business, etc. These reports are instantly available and they are updated as and when actual transaction happens in Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling medicines to customer, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, etc.
  • Supplier data entry linked with manufacturing firms
    Acme’s Insight allows medical retailer can add manufacturing company names while creating supplier database. Efforts invested in data entry actually helps medical retailer or staff when purchase order is created on these suppliers. Acme’s Insight software show only those medicine names that are linked with supplier produced by concerned producers. This feature speed up the computer performance by showing limited medicine names than show entire medicine names produced by countless firms.
  • Scheduler & task manger
    Acme’s Insight software offers another powerful feature that can be used before or after transaction hours. Medical retailer or staff can record patient name and their standard prescription details if medical retailer or staff knows these medicines are needed by patient on regular interval. Medical retailer or staff can call the patient and remind the patient about it or medical retailer or staff can actually deliver the medicines. Usage of scheduler and task manager can be utilized to increase the business. Medical retailer can also add other important business tasks like renewal of medicine license and shop act licenses, submission of VAT report & VAT return, submission of IT report  &  IT return, payment of utility bills like property tax, water tax, electricity bill, mobile bill, Internet bill, LIC premium, vehicle insurance premium, etc.
  • Readymade database while Insight for Medical Retail is getting installed
    Acme’s Insight comes with ready made item master database. This facility provided by Acme’s Insight helps medical retailer in terms of time, money and efforts in to entering item data in the computer.
  • Purchase order to supplier by email
    Acme’s Insight software allows medical retailer to email purchase order instantly. This feature is well equipped with mathematical formula. e.g. Minimum stock level minus closing stock. Sale for day \ closing stock. Sale for days \ closing stock.
  • Automatic back-up of Insight
    Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated by Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in medical retailer shop. This is must activity.

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Report

Printed reports give an opportunity to medical retailer, accountant or staff to work out various strategies. Somehow, printed reports got more impact that is emotional on every humankind than seeing report electronically on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides some standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight also provide Report Writing module. Following reports are available in Acme’s Insight namely

  • Schedule medicine report
    This report comprises of schedule H1 and other schedule medicine stock available in shop, purchase of schedule medicines year to day, schedule medicines sold to various patients including doctor’s name year to date. This report is FDA’s compliance.
  • Stock report
    This report comprises of closing stock report (amount wise and quantity wise), fast selling medicines, slow moving medicines, dead medicines, near to expire medicines and expired medicines (manufacture wise & location wise).
  • Accounting Reports
    Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debtor’s Registers, General Ledger, Bank Statement, Bank Reconciliation Statement, Interest Calculation, etc.
  • Daily cash sales reports
    Acme’s Insight offers this report to medical retailer to empower about cash sales happened across the day.

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