Adati alias Commission Agent (businessman) sitting in Agriculture Product Market (Purchase & Sale) buys agriculture products from farmers and resale it to the retailers. This is the prime activity that happens in Adati’s alias Commission Agent’s office everyday.Process for the business is like this. Farmer visit Adati alias Commission Agent’s office with agricultural products. Farmer informs businessman about the product that farmer product and about the total weight.Based on this information, businessman create Patti document for the said farmer and for the products that he/she brought in to businessman’s office.In this Patti document, businessman capture farmer’s name, product details, product weight, Hamali (effort charges for delivering product to businessman’s office), Tolai (efforts put in to calculate the actual weight of the product), Warai (efforts put in to remove products from vehicle to businessman’s office), Chalai (efforts required to clean products), advances paid to farmer & levy imposed agriculture product marketing association.Post to that businessman print Patti document and handover it to the farmer as a proof of accepting products and accountable to pay the payment for the goods purchased.Once businessman resale those products forward to distributors or to wholesalers or to retailers and when these buyers pay to businessman? At that time only businessman pays to farmer. While paying, businessman also adjust advances paid to the farmer.Businessman needs to main Patti register, Sale bill register, Unpaid Patti Report, Paid Patti Report, Pending Advances Report, Farmer Ledger and Daybook Report.Acme’s Insight Software handles all above mentioned processes. In addition to above, Acme’s Insight also provide value added features. Let us read about each feature one by one.

• Sales Bill rounding method
  This feature allows business owner, accountant or billing user to decide how rounding to be done when final Patti document and Sales bill is prepared. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Default Memo Type In Sales Bill
  This function helps business owner 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.
• Itemcode and Customer code while creating sales bill
  In Adati business, business owner can use item code while selecting agricultural products. Business owner can also select farmer’s name and buyer’s name by code.
• Show customer balance in pick list
  This feature helps business owner or billing user to get accurate information about outstanding payment from buyers. And payment due to farmers.
• Pick list by letters in sales bill
  This is customizable feature available via settings. By this feature, business owner or billing user can decide how pick list of items to be selected in sales bill. Here user 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 software 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 business owner or staff to accept multiple payment mode like some payment in cash, some via cheque, some via credit card, some via electronic transfer and/or some via credit.
• Show items rack wise
  This function helps delivery staff while goods are picked up for delivery purpose.

• Maintaining stock in multiple units
  This is feature keeps the track of what is purchased and how v/s what is sold & how.
• Show item balance while creating sales bill
  This is another useful function that is linked with stock data. Here business owner or staff 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. Business owner or user can decide as per their comfort and as per their business process. This function is available in the form of settings.

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 business since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR (Public Relationship) activities to be done with suppliers (farmers) and with buyers (distributors, wholesalers & retailers).

• Send transactional messages
  Using this function, to send transactional mobile text messages as soon as credit sales bill is created. Send them reminder for payment.
• Send promotional messages or emails
  Using this feature, send message about material available for sale.
• Create mailing list and generate mailing labels
  Acme’s Insight can generate & print mailing list of all farmers & buyers. Acme’s Insight can generate & print information in mailing label format. These printed labels can be used by business owner to send them information about new products, about new scheme (if any), etc. by post and/or by courier.

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

• Bank reconciliation
  Bank reconciliation is one of the most tedious tasks for every 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 garment business and how this feature saves owners time.
• Interest calculation
  Suppliers charge interest when bills are not paid in time. This feature calculates the interest being charged by the suppliers. Many business owner keep FD's with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by garment business owner using this feature available in Acme’s Insight.
• View, print and email Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance
  Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance 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, 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 business owner, accountant and staff enter every purchase bill, 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.

Printed reports give an opportunity to business owner to work out various strategies on how to increase business, how to add new or more products, how to introduce new brands, etc. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional to every Indian mind than seeing the same report electronically on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight provide report-writing module. Using this module, business 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 and farmer wise. Fast selling items, dead items, slow moving items, 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, etc.
• 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.

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:-

• Scheduler & task manger
  Acme’s Insight software offers feature that can be used before or after transaction hours. Businessman can add various important business task like IT return date, IT payment date, License Expiry date, Paying Electricity Bill, Paying Telephone or Mobile Phone Bill, etc. in Acme’s scheduling software.Acme’s scheduling software sends an alert text message on mobile phones used by businessman.
• Software security for users
  Acme’s Insight understands the security aspect. Acme offers user-friendly security features that can be used using mouse button clicks. Businessman can create users based on duties to be performed by the staff. E.g., User is allowed to create sales bill. Now this user will not be able to see and use features and functions of accounting, stock, purchase, accounting, etc. Acme’s Insight allows businessman not to allow sales billing user to have access to any other functions & features available in Insight.
• Automatic back-up of Insight
  Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically takes 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. Nevertheless, 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.
  

Sales counter @ footwear is the most happening area. Here buyers stand in line for the sales bill so that can pay the sales bill, pay the money and collect footwear. Acme’s Insight offers number of features and those are:-

• Create 10 sales bills at a time.
  Sales billing user interface allows footwear business to create 10 sales bill at a time.
• Number of items to be printed in single sales bill.
  This function in the form of settings allows footwear business owner to decide number of footwear items to be included in single printed sales bill.
• Number of copies to be printed of one sales bill.
  This function in the form of settings allows footwear business owner to decide number of copies to be printed of single sales bill.
• Save and Print Bill Immediately After Entry.
  This feature in the form of settings allows footwear business owner to save the bill immediately as soon as it is prepared. Bill can be printed immediately.
• How to round off sales bill and formula to round off.
  This feature is the form of settings allows footwear business owner to define the process of rounding when sales bill is prepared. Footwear business owner can use formula too.
• Use barcode or item code while generating sales bill.
  Sales billing user interface accept barcode label product, item code or item name when sales bill is prepared.
• Enter cash received from customer.
  This feature allows footwear business owner to enter cash paid by the customer to include in sales bill. This feature makes consumer happy and this feature is useful for validation purpose.
• Multiple taxing in sales bill.
  Sales billing user interface accept multiple tax for multiple products like products with zero tax, products with 5% or 5.5% VAT, products with 12.5% or 14.5% VAT, products with CST and products with LBT or Octroi.
• Multiple payment (acceptance) collection in sales billing.
  Sales billing user interface accept single sales bill in multiple collection mode namely some part is paid by cash, some part is paid credit card or debit card and some part is paid by cheque.
• Sales return/exchange in same sales bill.
  Now-a-days sales return or exchange are part of daily business. Sales billing user interface got built-in sales return or exchange facility. Using this feature footwear business owner can take back sales return or exchange goods. Exchange goods can happen for same amount, lower amount or higher amount too.

• In India today most of the multinational footwear brand and multi location Indian footwear brands use barcode label.
  In India today most of the multinational footwear brand and multi location Indian footwear brands use barcode label. Acme has developed universal barcode software module. This module can be ordered along with Acme’s Insight software. This module allows footwear business owner to use company printed barcode labels when sales bill is generated. Footwear business owner can also create own barcode labels for local footwear products that generates more profit than trading products.

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 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 using text message
  Using this feature, footwear business owner can send “Thank you for buying” message to end customer on customer’s mobile phone.
• Send personal greeting text messages on mobile phone via text message
  Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages to every customer. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.
• Generate mailing list and print customer labels.
  Using this function, footwear business owner can generate list of customers in column format. In addition, footwear business owner can also generate printing labels. These labels can be used by footwear business owner for sending festival greeting cards, discount scheme offer letter, etc.

Accounting is an integral part of every business. Acme’s Insight software offered number of features, under this category are:-

• VAT accounting
  Every month footwear business owner is forced by law to submit VAT report to government. Generating timely VAT report all depends up on generation of sales, generation of sales return document, entry of purchase bill and generating purchase return. Acme’s Insight software handles all these needs on click of mouse button when footwear business owner use sales billing, sales return, purchase bill entry and purchase return in time, on time and every time.
• Bank reconciliation
  Bank reconciliation is another tedious tasks for every footwear 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 footwear business when bills are not paid in time, supplier or stockiest charge interest. Acme’s Insight software feature calculates the interest charged by the stockiest or by the producer. It is also being observed that many footwear business owners keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by footwear business owner using Acme’s Insight software 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 footwear business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, footwear 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 footwear business owner (or staff) enter every purchase bill via Acme’s Insight, sale every product via Acme’s Insight billing user interface, enter every receipt + payment + expenses from Acme’s Insight, enter every sales return or purchase return from Acme’s Insight software. 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 footwear business owner to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available from settings.
• Export accounting data to Tally
  Many footwear business owners 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. Acme’s export accounting (only financial) data utility to Tally allows footwear business owner to share accounting data with tax professionals such as CA and Tax Practitioners.  Having said this, footwear business owner can also generate accounting reports on their own. In addition, footwear business owner can also print various accounting registers using Acme’s Insight software namely sales register, purchase register, credit register, debit register, cash payment register, cheque receipt register, expense register, bankbook, chequebook, etc. on click of mouse button.

In footwear business sales and purchase return are the most unpleasant activiti. 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,  helps to business  owner to make minimam losses.

• 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.

Printed reports give an opportunity to footwear business 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 (some how) got more impact on Indian human mind that is emotional to every footwear business 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. Using this feature, footwear business 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 are 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 from settings.

There are many things (task in hand) that happen in footwear business before shop is opened for customers and after shop is closed for customers. These activities fall under the category of back-office activities. Listing down 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
  Acme’s Insight software allows footwear business owner to use this function in case owner wants to maintain footwear business separately for various category of products. e.g. Branded footwear business under one company, Accessory business in another company, Local footwear business under different company etc. This feature allows owner to reduce tax burden. This feature helps owner to work out strategy on how to grow business, when, where, etc. This feature also helps 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 from 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 of electricity) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in footwear shop.
  

Maintaining stock, updating stock on regular interval, tracking stock on regular interval, refreshing stock on regular interval, etc. are the key activities that happens in successful footwear business. Acme’s Insight software offers number of features for stock maintenance & stock management are:-

• Import purchase bill
  Acme’s Insight software import computerized supplier’s bill. In turn it saves time, efforts and money of footwear business owner. This feature helps to avoid mistakes & errors if footwear business owner decides to enter supplier’s bill manually. Importing bill is peace of mind.
• Import price list
  It is being observed that some footwear producers offers their product price list in MS Excel format. Producers keep the price list on their web site. Acme’s Insight software import such price list documents. Please contact Acme’s office and Acme’s Partner’s office on how to do it.
• Inward stock with pakka bill or with delivery challan
  Acme’s Insight software allows footwear business owner to enter stock data using pakka bill and 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
  While entering stock data in to Acme’s Insight software! Footwear business owner can name each rack with unique identification and then enter stock data. This practice is good for business health. This practice also helps when physical stock checking activity is done.
• Mention Minimum stock level quantity and reordering quantity
  This system allows allows footwear business owner to mention minimum stocking quantity and reordering quantity for all those footwear items that are fast selling. Entering this information helps footwear business owner to reorder these products quickly as soon as the stock reaches to minimum quantity level.
• Formula function for Item Master Entry
  Acme’s Insight software allows footwear business owner to use formula function while entering stock data. This function automatically calculate MRP price and sales price based on purchase price. This feature save time, efforts and avoids mistakes that may happen when manual sale price and MRP price is mentioned for each product.
• Add multiple attributes or properties to each item
  This system allows footwear business owner to add more properties or attributes for footwear products as per business practice. This feature also helps when business analysis is done by Acme’s Insight software as well as when ordering of footwear products happens.
• Maintaining stock in multiple units and packs
  Acme’s Insight software allows footwear business owner to enter stock in multiple units and in multiple packs. e.g. Purchase products in dozens or in boxes and sale it in pieces.
• Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
  This system allows footwear business owner to enter footwear stock in multiple delivery challans issued by stockiest and by producers. Acme’s Insight software allows footwear business owner to enter footwear stock in multiple delivery challans issued by stockiest and by producers.
  
• Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
  Acme’s Insight software automatically calculate MRP price and sale price for entered stock from supplier’s bill.
• Lock sales rates in sales bill
  This system allows footwear business owner to lock sales rates in sales bill.
• Create group wise category while entering items
  Footwear business owner can create multiple category for footwear products while entering footwear stock data. e.g. Male, Female, Boys, Girls & Accessories can be come principal group. Under each of these groups sub groups can be created like Chappal, Shoes, Sandals, Casuals, etc. Under accessories items like socks, polish cream, polish brush, lace, polishing cloth, bags, jackets, etc. can be added. Creating groups and sub groups helps footwear business owner to generate meaningful business validation and business analysis which is part of Acme’s Insight software.
• 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 system allows has got scheme feature. Using this feature, footwear business owner can run sales scheme to increase business and to inspire customers to buy more footwear products.
• Show item balance while creating sales bill
  This feature empowers & educate sales bill user about the stock of billable items.

Electrical & electronics retailer is broad line business. Large number of electrical & electronic products are traded across the counter like tubes, bulbs, switches, plugs, buttons, fans, motors, door bell, door security camera, battery cell, troche, mobile phones, Smartphones, tabs, wire, fuses, electrical or electronic meter, home appliances, office appliances, mosquito or fly ripples, street lights, street lamps, street electric polls and many more products. Sales counter is the most busiest and crowded area where end customers, suppliers, company representatives, material delivery staff and payment collection staff visit daily. Each one of them ask for something or demand something. In turn keeping the sales counter clean, neat, pleasant and ready to serve is the need of business. Acme’s Insight software offers number of features and those are:-

• Create, save and print 10 bills at a time
  Generating computerized sales bill is the most important aspect of business. Computerized sales bill generates excellent & accurate business intelligence about the business. Companies in US and in Europe realized this aspect long back and in turn business owners in US and in Europe issue sales bill to every customer for every transaction. In India, business owners are yet to accept and yet to understand importance of computerized sales bill. Acme’s Insight software generates 10 sales bills a time allowing business owner  (or staff) to handle multiple customer needs in shortest period of time.
• Number of items to be printed in one sales bill
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to decide number of products to be incorporated in one sales bill. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Set default memo type In sales bill
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to define & to decide default sales bill memo type. It could be cash, credit card, credit or combination of all.
• Cashier module
  This feature is useful to business where more staff is handling counter sales and cash too.
• Flash message for product and credit customer
  Acme’s Insight software display flash message on computer monitor while generating sales bill. Flash message will be displayed for product reaching minimum stocking level. Flash message will also display when credit customer is wanting to buy more products on credit terms. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Use Itemcode, Item name, Barcode, Customer code and customer name while creating sales bill
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to generate sales bill using 3 different methodology while selecting the product for selling. Item name, item code or barcode label with barcode gun. Same methodology is also used for selecting customer code or customer name while preparing credit bill.
• Alert on Sales Bill UI (User interface) for shortage of products
  Acme’s Insight software alert billing user for shortage of products asked by the customer.
• Show items in sales bill rack wise
  This function helps billing staff to print sales bill location wise. Delivery staff can use printed bill to remove stock from respective racks for actual delivery.
• Take Different Series According To Memo Type In Sales Bill
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to decide and to use different series type for sales bill. For cash sales or for credit card sales different series can be used. And for credit customers, different series can be used.
• Lock sales rate
  Acme’s Insight software offers this feature to lock sales rate when sales bill is prepared.
• Select salesman name or salesman code in sales bill
  Incase business owner is offering incentives to sales staff! Acme’s Insight software incorporate salesman name or code in sales bill generation.
• 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 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.
• Enter cash received from farmer
  This feature allows sales bill user to enter cash received from farmer. Billing software capture the total sales bill amount, cash received from farmer and exchange cash returned to the farmer.
• 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 sales rate to be shown inclusive of tax. Whatever process is followed by the 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 business. Acme’s Insight offers sales return in same sales bill and/or sales return by separate document. Business owner can decide the process.

Business generates great profits when business works smoothly, seamlessly, smartly and that too when saleable stock is available to bill it to end customer. So entering stock, entering every supplier bill, updating stock, monitoring stock, tracking stock, entering every sales return and purchase return, etc. are the key task in hand for the business owner. Acme’s Insight software offers useful features and those are:-

• Import computerized purchase bill
  Entering purchase bill consumes huge time. Many times mistakes & errors also happens while entering purchase bill details. To save time, efforts, avoiding mistakes & errors, Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to import supplier’s bill generated using computer. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partner’s office for more details.
• Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan
  Using this feature business owner can enter item master records using supplier’s bill or using delivery challan.
• Enter product category wise
  Acme’s Insight software maintain product data category wise.
• Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to validate purchase rate and sale rate while entering product data. This feature empower & educate business owner to validate accuracy of price factor that is utmost important to the business.
• Multiple stocking locations (racks) within business premises
  Acme’s Insight software maintain stock data information rack wise. Business owners are requested to use this function inclusively.
• Minimum order level quantity and reordering quantity
  While entering product data, business owner can enter minimum order level quantity and reordering quantity for fast selling products. This feature helps business owner while reordering products from supplier. Display alert function is also available where by business owner is alerted as soon as stock level reaches to minimum quantity level. Automatic reordering feature is also available in Acme’s Insight if activated by business owner.
• Formula function for Item Master Entry
  This feature is available in the form of formula. Once the formula is set by business owner! Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight when purchase rates are entered.
• Add multiple attributes or properties to each item
  Acme’s Insight software is completely driven by stock data. Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to add multiple attributes or properties for each item.
• Maintaining stock in multiple units and in multiple packs
  This feature allows business owner to maintain stock in multiple units and in multiple packs. e.g. Plugs, switches, bulbs, tubes, etc. can be purchased in boxes and sold in pieces. Wires can be bought in bundles but sold in pieces or in meters.
• 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 business owner to define the formula for purchase rate, sales rate 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 sales bill. User definable rates helps sales billing user to type different rates for special customers who are buying consistently and buying in bulk.
• Lock sales rates in sales bill
  This function is available in the form of settings. This function helps business owner not to allow billing users to play (to change or to modify) with sales rates. This function is utmost important where business owner is having more than one billing counter.
• To check margin after entry of purchase bill
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to check margin on every item for the entered purchase bill.

• Getting skill or unskilled, low cost & low overheads staff for business is becoming difficult

Now-a-days getting skill or unskilled, low cost & low overheads staff for business is becoming difficult day by day. Product with barcode label helps business owner (or staff) to raise the sales bill within less time.

• Acme offers barcode software module as an option working tightly with Acme’s Insight software.

Acme offers barcode software module as an option working tightly with Acme’s Insight software. Using this software module, business owner can use company owned barcode labels for sales billing purpose. Business owner can also design, create & print own barcode label.

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 business owner since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed.  Acme’s Insight software offers CRM activities for various PR (public relation) works to be done with actual customers.

• Send transactional messages on mobile phone via text message
  Using this function business owner can send text messages on customer mobile phones as soon as sales bill is generated.
• Send personal greeting messages
  Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages for the entire customer database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.
• Mailing list and mailing label
  Acme’s Insight generates mailing list of all customers. This list helps business owner in case business owner wants to inform customers about new products, new scheme, etc. Acme’s Insight also generate printing labels from this database. These labels can be used for sending greeting cards, festival wishes, scheme, etc.

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

• VAT accounting
  Every month, every 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 bills are entered in to Acme’s Insight, VAT paid on purchase bills is automatically added in to VAT paid register. When sales bill is printed, VAT collected from customers is automatically added in to VAT collection register. When damaged products are returned to stockiest or to distributor or to wholesaler 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 damage or defective product, 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 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 business, stockiest or wholesaler or distributor charge interest when bills are not paid in time. Acme’s Insight calculates the interest charged. Many business owner keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by business 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, Creditor’s list and Debater’s list 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! 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 business owner, accountant and staff enter every purchase bill, sale every product via Insight, enter every payment + receipt + expenses in Insight, 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 business owner to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available in the form of settings.
• Export financial accounting data to Tally including tax data
  Many business owner in India still avail or prefer the services of CA and/or professional tax consultant. In India, many CA’s and professional tax consultant use Tally software tool in their office. Insight's export accounting (only financial) data to Tally feature allows business owner to share accounting data with such professionals. Having said this, business owner 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, business owner can also print various accounting business 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, business owner can easily disburse payable incentives with accurate data to each sales staff.

• Sales return and purchase return, these are the two unpleasant activities that happens in electrical and in electronic business.
  Sales return and purchase return, these are the two unpleasant activities that happens in electrical and in electronic business. No one likes it. However, they are unavoidable. If these two activities are controlled tightly & systematically! It helps business owner to grow and to sustain. Acme’s Insight software understand these aspects correctly and offers value for money features that helps business owner to grow business, business to sustain and helps business owner to make less losses or nil losses.

Printed reports give an opportunity to business owner to work out various strategies to increase business (top line, bottom line, suppliers, products, consumers, etc.). Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional to every Indian mind than seeing the 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 can generate customized reports as per the need of business.

• Stock report
  Item wise, supplier wise, category wise, etc. Fast selling items, slow moving items, dead or non saleable items, 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, Bank Statement, Profitability Report, Cheque Book Maintenance, Bank Reconciliation report, etc. Generate automatic credit and debit note report.
• VAT report
  Acme’s Insight generates 4 types of VAT reports namely VAT paid from suppliers bill, VAT collected from sales bill generated on customers, 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 report becomes easy. This function is available in the form of settings.

There are many things (task in hand) that happen in every business 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 wise sales, counter wise 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 Acme’s Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling products to customers, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, undertaking sales return, entering expenses for staff or for business, etc.
• Multiple firms
  Insight allows business owner to use this function in case business owner wants to maintain business separately from tax (turnover and income) perspective. This feature helps business owner to reduce tax burden. This feature helps business owner on how to grow business, when, where, etc. Switching from one firm name to another happens only by pressing one key on computer keyboard. Business owner 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 business owner to add manufacturing company names while creating supplier database. Efforts invested in data entry actually help business owner when purchase order is created on these suppliers. Acme’s Insight software shows only those product names that are linked with supplier 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. Business owner can also add various important business task like VAT return date, IT return date, VAT payment date, IT payment date, etc. in Acme’s scheduling software. Acme’s scheduling software sends an alert text message on mobile phones used by business owner.
• Software security for users
  Acme’s Insight understands the security aspect. Acme offers user-friendly security features that can be used using mouse button clicks. Business owner can create users based on duties to be performed by the staff. e.g., User is allowed to create sales bill. Now this user will not be able to see and use features and functions of accounting, stock, purchase, accounting, etc. Acme’s Insight allows business owner not to allow sales billing user to have access to any other functions & features available in Insight.
• Automatic back-up of Insight
  Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically takes 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. Nevertheless, 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.

Garment business is a broad level definition. It could be simple clothing (shirting, suiting, etc.) business, Readymade garment outlet, Under garment outlet, Hosiery outlet, Soft furnishing outlet, Saree shop or combination one or all. Acme’s Insight software can be bought, installed & used for one or for all type of businesses. Sales billing counter and cash collection counter are the most happening areas in garment business. Sales billing counter and cash collection counter could be one or more. It all depends up on number of daily transactions that happens on these counters. Acme’s Insight software can be installed and used on single Windows based PC or on multiple Windows based PC's. Multiple windows based PC’s can be connected to windows server or to linux server.

• Create, save and print 10 sales bills at a time
  Generating sales bill is the foundation  of every business. Generating sales bill for every sale creates & generates meaningful business data (about product, about producing company, about quantity, about price, about size, about color, about brand, about fashion, etc.) that empowers & educates health of the business or business owner. This system understand this aspect of business since day one and in turn, System provides one of the best sales billing user interface (UI). Current UI (user interface) of Acme’s Insight (BAP means Business Application Processing) software allows business to generate 10 sales bills at a time in one single window. This feature of Acme’s Insight is helping more than 6000 business owners. Acme Infovision appeals every business owner to use sales billing feature every day and for every product being sold. If business owner is having more staff handling multiple activities in business, then Acme’s Insight is the best software product. Business owner can use Acme’s Insight for pre-defined or pre-designated business functions namely one or more users handling billing activity. One user handling purchase bill entry, one or more users generating barcode labels for fresh stock, one user keeping the track (entering data ) of arrived stock (from stockiest or from production firm) in various racks, one or more users handling cash collection, one user handling accounting functions, etc. This is the classic feature that actually does wonder at sales bill and collection counter. Business owner can use thermal printer, dot matrix printer, DeskJet printer or Laser Printer to print sales bill. It all depends upon need, affordability & above all total cost of printing.
• Number of items to be printed on single sales bill 
  This function is available in the form of settings. This function allows business owner to decide number of items to be printed on single sales bill.
• Number of copies to be printed of sales bill
  This function allows business owner to print sales bill more than one copy in case garment owner is using DeskJet printer or laser printer or thermal printer. If garment business owner decides to use dot matrix printer and use carbon inserted paper stationary, then this function should not be used.
• Print bill immediately after entry
  This feature in the form of settings allows billing user to print bill instantly.
• Rounding sales bill amount method
  This feature allows business owner to decide how rounding to be done for final sales bill and the method to be used for rounding. Formula function is available for this feature. This feature is available in settings.
• Cashier module
  This feature is useful where there are more cashiers sitting on counter. This module allows business owner to change the type of sales bill. E.g. sales bill is created for cash but when customer wants to pay the same bill in two different modes like some amount by cash and some amount by credit card. Acme’s Insight software allows business owner or cashier bill authority person to change the type of sales bill from cash to multiple payment modes.
• Use barcode, item code or item name while generating sales bill.
  This function can be used while creating sales bill. Billing user can use barcode gun to add the items in sales. If billing user remember the item code or item name. He/she can use item code or item name to create sales bill. Comfort level of billing user is appropriately handled by Acme’s Insight software.
• Enter cash received from customer
  This feature allows sales bill user or (cashier 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
• Automatically select free gift scheme in sales bill
  This function allows sales bill user to offer a free gift in case business owner decides to give free gift. Now a day’s buy 2 get 1 free, buy 3 get 1 free, etc. schemes are run by most of the businesses.
• Billing user and cashier user is different and they are sitting in 2 different locations in garment outlet
  There are many garment outlets that prefer to have two different counters. One counter for generating sales bill and another counter for collecting cash. Acme’s Insight handles this need. As soon as bill is created, generated, printed & saved & automatically saved bill appears on cashier’s pc as pending bill. The moment cashier collects the amount from customer and enters the amount in cashier module, this sales bill is passed. Until such time bill is treated as pending bill.
• Multiple discounting & multiple taxing in one sales bill
  Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to define his/her discounting process. Discount could be given on individual product, discount could be given on total bill and discount could be given on both. Free gift item can be also incorporated in to sales bill generation. Same process can be implemented for tax too. Some items could be taxed for 5% or 5.5% VAT, some could be taxed for 12.00% or 14.% VAT. Some could be 0% VAT as the case may be all these 3 types of items can be incorporated in to one sales bill. Tax can be shown as separate identity or tax can be merged in sales price. Choice is business owners.
• Multiple payment collection
  Acme’s Insight allows business owner to collect multiple collection for single sales bill namely cash, credit card, credit and cheque.
• Sales return /exchange in same sales bill
  Sales return or exchange is unavoidable attribute of garment business. Acme’s Insight offers sales return in same sales bill or sales return by separate document. Business owner can decide the process and comfort level.
• Multiple firms with single bill or with multiple bills
  This feature helps the garment business owner in case garment business owner is running multiple firms from single business premises. This feature allows business owner to print single sales bill from multiple firms or print multiple bills from multiple firms. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, as well as bill is saved, printed & payment is collected, accounting effects are immediately given to respective firms for respective products, quantity and value.
• Loyalty card module
  This system offers loyalty card software module. This module allows garment business owner to run loyalty card scheme to attract more customers. Kindly contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners to know more about it.
• Allocation of salesman item wise and bill wise
  Acme’s Insight software address sales staff working in garment business. It is being observed that some garment owners offers incentive on sales bill and some offer incentives on individual products. In this software allocation of salesman can be linked to item or to bill. Which process is followed by garment business owner,  Acme’s Insight can handle that process.
• Facility to print the sales bill without touching keyboard & mouse
  When billing user is not keen to touch keyboard and mouse! User can use this function to save the bill and to print the bill. ACME’s Insight offers a unique barcode to garment business. Once the bill is generated by using barcode gun and when customer wants to pay the bill? Billing user can save the bill & print the bill without touching keyboard & mouse. Billing user can scan the barcode that is developed to close the bill, to save the bill and to print the bill.

Maintaining stock, tracking stock, updating stock, etc. are the key needs of garment 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 from supplier. Kindly contact Acme’s office to know how to import computerized printed bill in to the system.
  
• Enter and maintain stock packet (bale, bundle alias gath) wise
  Normally garment products arrive in garment sales outlet in packs or packets. Each pack or packet got unique number and delivery challan. Business owner can enter delivery challan, pack number, date and goods available in each pack so as to keep tight control on each pack and goods available in each pack.
• Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan
  This is another valuable function where by business owner can enter garment master records using supplier’s bill or delivery challan.
• Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
  This system allows garment staff to validate purchase price and sale price while entering product master data. This feature empower & educate bazar staff to validate accuracy of price factor that is utmost important to bazar.
• Multiple stocking locations/racks within garment premises and outside too
  Using this feature, business owner can keep the stock at various racks available in business premises. Each rack can be named or given unique number for identification.
• Minimum order level and reordering level
  This feature allows garment owner to record minimum level quantity and reordering quantity for each item. This feature alert billing staff as well as stock item reaches to minimum level. This feature allows garment owner to reorder items on respective suppliers immediately.
• Formula function for item master entry
  Acme’s Insight software got this important feature to be followed and to adopted about sale price to be defined for each item. Once the formula is set by garment business owner, Sale price of each garment item can be automatically calculated by this system.
• Add multiple attributes or properties to each item
  This function allows garment business owner to define various properties or attributes of garment products. e.g. Saree :- color, cloth type, size, price, producer’s name, producers town, etc. Pant :- color, cloth type, size, price, brand name, etc. Shirt :– color, cloth type, size, type, price, brand name, etc.
• Maintaining stock in multiple units and multiple packs
  This feature allows garment staff to convert units of purchase items in to saleable items. E.g., cloth is ordered in lumpsum and sold in cut pieces. Shirts are bought in dozens and sold in pieces. Under garments are bought in packs and sold in pieces. Saree’s are bought in packs or in dozens and sold in pieces.
• Add free quantity while purchase bill entered
  This feature allows business owner or staff to enter free quantity or free gift or free product scheme.
• Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
  This feature is useful when suppliers are supplying goods on delivery challan and invoices are raised once in a month , in fifteen days or once in a week.
• 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 garment business owner to define the formula for purchase rate, 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 some unique customers who are offered special rates.
• Lock sales rates in sales bill
  This function is available in the form of settings. This function helps business owner not to allow billing users to play with sales rates.
• Create group wise category while entering items
  Here garment business owner can create multiple categories like clothing, readymade, accessories, shirt, pant, Saree, Ghagra, Chunri, Sherwani, others, etc. Under each category business owner can enter range of items.
• Allow free items
  This feature allows purchase bill entry user to add free items if they are being offered by business owner. E.g. buy 2 get 1 free , buy 3 get 1 free, etc.
• 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 business owner to run scheme for customers. Like 40% off on fresh stocks or 25% off on season closing or buy 5000 Rs. goods and get gift voucher free for future purchase.
• Show item balance while creating sales bill
  This is another wonderful feature that empowers & educate sales bill creator about the stock of bulid item.
• Production module
  This is another powerful feature that helps business owner in clothing business as well as if business owner is producing readymade garments in outsourcing method. Please contact Acme’s office how this  feature works.
• Alteration module
  This is another powerful feature that helps business owner in clothing business as well as if business owner is producing readymade garments in outsourcing method. Please contact Acme’s office or partner’s office to know how this powerful feature works.
• Alteration module
  This is another unique feature created for readymade garment business. Many times when buyer buys the product, he/she is always keen to alert something from ready-made garment. This feature keeps the track of all such alteration that happens at counter.
• Purchase bill passing module
  This feature allows business staff to generate purchase order on supplier. As soon as PO is ready, business owner and/or authority user from business can pass the PO after proper validation of actual purchase.
• Validate physical stock with computerized stock
  This function helps business owner and staff to check physical stock available in the premises with stock available in computer.

• Barcode labeling on each product is the new business mantra.
  Barcode labeling on each product is the new business mantra. Barcode label gives different feelings to buyer since they have been seeing barcode labels on many products like Mobile, Smartphone, PC’s, Digital Camera, Pen Drive, SD Card, etc. Acme’s barcode software module allows business owner to generate their own barcode labels. These barcode labels can be printed when items are entered in to Acme’s Insight software. As soon as entry is completed, business owner (or staff) can print barcode labels instantly. Business owner can also use supplier’s barcode labels. Business owner (or staff) can also take images of garment products and attach the image to each product. Existing labels for non-moving products can be changed again to increase sales commission for sales staff and to decrease sale price of non-moving garment products. Acme’s barcode software module allows garment business owner to store purchase rate in confidential manner on barcode label. This feature allows sales bill generator to define customised sale price to end customer in sales bill looking at purchase price.

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 activity for business to be in touch with customers. Competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acmr’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR (public relation) activities to be done with actual buyers. Those are as follows:-

• Send transactional messages on mobile
  Using this function, business owner can send text message on mobile phone to every customer as soon as buyer buys the product from garment outlet. e.g. “thank you very much for visiting our outlet”, “thank you for buying products from our shop”, “share your today’s buying experience with your friends”, etc.
• Send personal greeting messages
  Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages on mobile phones for entire customer database. e.g. happy birthday, happy wedding anniversary, etc.
• Create mailing list and generate mailing labels
  Acme’s Insight can generate & print mailing list of all customers who are buying products from the business. Acme’s Insight can generate & print customer’s information in mailing label format. These printed labels can be used by business owner to send them information about new products, about new designs, about new scheme (if any), etc. by post and by courier.

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

• VAT accounting
  Every month, every garment 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 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 damage garment products are returned to suppliers using purchase return document, Difference of VAT on purchase return is automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight and posted in to VAT register for purchase return. Whenever customer return damaged garment goods, 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 tasks for every 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 garment business and how this feature saves owners time.
• Interest calculation
  Suppliers charge interest when bills are not paid in time. This feature calculates the interest being charged by the suppliers. Many business owner keep FD's with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by garment business owner using this feature available in Acme’s Insight.
• View, print and email Balance Sheet,P&L and Trial Balance
  Balance sheet, profit & loss and trial balance are the important documents that display health of garment business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, business owner or staff, does not have to have accounting knowledge to generate these reports. Acme’s Insight is developed in such a way that if business owner or staff enter every purchase bill, 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 of settings.
• Add accounting effect for general sale bill immediately after saving the bill
  This feature allows garment business owner to give instant effect for the general sales bill created & printed on each counter.
• 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 Accounting Software in their office. Insight's export accounting data to Tally feature allows business owner to share accounting data with such professionals. Having said this, business owner can also generate accounting reports like Balance Sheet, P&L statement, Trial Balance sheet, Creditor’s list, Debaters list, etc. In addition, business owner can also print various business registers like sales, purchase (supplier and item), bank, cashbook, customer, expenses, payment, etc. On click of mouse button.
• To view customer ledger from multiple firms
  If garment business owner is using multiple firm feature as well as multiple or single billing feature? This feature allows garment business owner to view particular customer ledger from all the firms on click of mouse button.

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

• Sales return passing module
  This feature is needed where physical sales return is undertaken by the 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 business owner and end consumer.
• Generation of debit note on instance of purchase return
  This feature allows purchase return document user to create debit not instantly so as to close the transactions.
• Pick up non moving items to return to respective supplier
  This feature allows business owner to pick up all non-moving items from the shop, make consolidated list as per supplier and return it to respective supplier.
• Set time limit for sales return
  This function allows business owner to set number of day’s time for sales return.
• Salesman, type of memo, commission and discount on sales return
  Sales return is not liked by anyone. Sales return is unavoidable. While sales return is happening on counter, Acme’s Insight automatically copy all the attributes of actual sales namely concerned sales staff, commission payable, type of sales bill document and discount if given. This feature avoids losses.

Printed reports give an opportunity to business owner to work out various strategies on how to increase business, how to add new or more products, how to introduce new brands, how to introduce new suppliers, etc. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional to every Indian mind than seeing the same report electronically on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight provide report-writing module. Using this module, business 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 and producer wise. Fast selling items, dead items, slow moving items, etc. Sales report salesman wise, product wise, category wise, value wise, quantity 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, Salesman commission report, etc.
• VAT report
  VAT paid on supplier’s bill report, VAT collected via sales bill 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 report becomes easy. This function is available in form of settings.

There are many things (task in hand) that happen in business before business hours starts for customer and when business hours are closed for customers. These activities (task in hand) fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down features of Acme’s Insight software 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 of 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 Acme’s Insight software like entering of purchase bill, selling items to customer, entering bill payment & giving payment to suppliers.
• Multiple firms
  Acme’s Insight allows business owner to use this function in case business owner wants to maintain garment business separately for various category of products. E.g. clothing business under one head. Readymade business is another head. Under garment business is another head. This feature reduces overall tax burden.
• Set fix margin supplier wise
  This feature allows business owner (or staff) to define fix margin against each supplier and products being bought from that supplier. This function automatically calculate sales rate for each product. This function saves time, efforts, money and avoids mistakes or errors.
• Calculate total scrap of clothing and generate report for the same
  Acme’s Insight got this needy feature for clothing (shirting, suiting and soft furnishing) businesses. Insight allows business owner to define minimum length of clothing that can be treated as scrap from each product. Business owner can also sale this scrap on click of mouse button. Acme’s Insight captures the scrap data from all the products, collect the data in to one sales bill and sale it or designate it as damage goods.
• Setup Acme’s Insight software for multiple branches on line or off-line
  Acme’s Insight can be deployed for multiple branches. These branches can function on-line as well as off-line. On line means branch is allowed to perform few tasks like generating sales bill, taking sales return, etc. Rest of the transactions can happen at HO level. In on line, data is stored at HO using broadband connectivity where as data can be generated in branches as well as in HO. In on line, data gets transferred instantly. Off line means branch is allowed to use all the functions or selected functions locally. Data created across the day is stored on local PC’s hard drive. Once in a day or two times a day; local branch PC can connect to HO Server for few min’s or for an hour and then entire data stored on local PC hard drive can be transferred to HO Server.
• Security
  Acme’s Insight offer high level of security namely:- user level security – Here user will be allowed to use certain features or functions of Acme’s Insight software. By enabling user level security, user will have limited access to those features that are part of daily activity.
• Automatic back-up of Insight
  This feature automatically takes back up of data created & generated via Acme’s Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name namely Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. Copying daily back up out of computer is must activity. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup. This is Do or die activity.