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The Inventory Label Formatter creates inventory bar code labels in any size
 
 System Requirements
Pacifica Accounting is a general ledger based, double-entry system.

It is a Windows application which will run on any 32 bit Windows.

Pacifica is fully multi-user, and can run on a dedicated server based network (MS, Linux, NetWare), Terminal Server, or peer to peer network.

With the new menu and dedicated workspace, a high resolution monitor is recommended.
 
 Main Features
 Real-Time
Pacifica uses real-time transaction processing, and all modules are automatically fully integrated with other modules, including the general ledger. Every transaction you enter, every change, every bit of data is processed instantly as you enter it.

Besides, data is on line all the time. All detail remains on-line and accessible for reporting, even from prior years. This detail may be edited by operators with sufficient privilege. Pacifica does away with the concept of pre-defined fiscal periods, allowing detailed financials to print across any date range and any part of the enterprise. For instance, a financial can report on a project from beginning to end, even across a year-end.
 Auditability
Pacifica is written in the C++ language, all in DLL files, and is based upon the SUMMUS relational database. Central to Pacifica are two libraries stored in SUMMUS databases. These libraries contain all of the standard screens, reports, icons and record definitions needed by Pacifica. Each company database is contained in one SUMMUS database file. Within this file is a data dictionary structure defining all of the records, indexes, custom reports and relational linkages. Records, and fields within records, can be any size necessary to contain the data. A record with little data will take less space in the database than a record with more data. In other databases, all records of one kind must be the same size.
System Security
Pacifica enables the system operator to limit each user's access to the different accounting modules. Each person is only assigned the privileges required for that employee to perform his job effectively. This security is implemented at the user level. Each user has a separate user ID, protected by a password. Each transaction is stamped with the user's ID, which allow the system operator to track the use or misuse of the system.
 Fast and Easy to operate
Pacifica gives you fast access to your information. From locating and retrieving your records - even old records, to previewing or printing reports of all kinds, Pacifica has no competition.

Drill-down capabilities are found at hundreds of fields in Pacifica, and on most reports when previewed on the screen.

For the most streamlined data entry, the mouse is almost never required for navigating the screen, although it may be used everywhere.
Reporting Systems
Pacifica has more than 80 standard reports, with many choices in the formatting of each one. Typically, the report launch parameters include date range, document range, account, vendor or customer range or selection, sort options, level of detail and page width. At most fields, you can set screen defaults for the parameters you prefer, and change them if necessary when you print. All reports can be printed to any printer, the screen, or a disk file.

Pacifica includes four separate report writers in addition to the standard reports. This is necessary because of the distinct differences in the reports and documents which are produced by these tools.

You have access to Pacifica's:
 Report Writer
 Financial Report Writer
 Document Writer
Inventory Label Formatter

The Report Writer builds a report program in the SPL language, it compiles it and places it on a report menu. These reports can be presentation-quality, depending on the designer's efforts, and may include:
 A launch screen for user input
 A page heading with automatic column headings
Access to all data in the database, including derived data and results of in-line computations
 In-line logic at data selection
 Up to 12 levels of sorting
 Unlimited filtering
 Unlimited group headings, subtotals with conditional breaks, footnotes
 Drill-downs on almost all data items in detail and subtotals
 Flexible indexing
 Data export capability
 Printer and font control just as in any system report

The Financial Report Writer builds a template record which drives a financial reporting engine. Financial reports may be designed with these features:
 Standard templates for P&L, balance sheet and statement of cash flows are included
 Up to 28 columns of numeric data can be defined as balance, activity or formula
 All display characteristics can affect individual columns or all columns
 Columns can print G/L, profit center, budget or computed data
 Lines can define accounts or account groups by number, wildcard expression, range or type
 Lines can exclude accounts or account groups by number, wildcard expression, range or
   type
 Lines can detail or summarize profit center information
 Footnotes can be attached to account numbers or groups
 Multiple company databases can be consolidated on one financial, even from dissimilar
   charts of accounts
 Columns, lines and cells can utilize formulas
 Non-dollar information can be taken from G/L accounts and printed or used in formulas
 Multiple schedules can be created for one financial, and print as one or more pages
 Computed data can carry forward through schedules

The Document Writer is used to modify the appearance of invoices, order forms, packing lists, checks and paychecks. Using this tool, you can visually:
 Move any printable item or hide it
 Change or remove the caption on any item
 Change column widths and number of decimals printed
 Turn lines and boxes on or off for plain paper documents, or add new lines, boxes
   and color blocks
 Include logo bitmaps and set their size and position
 Turn on various backgrounds, such as graybar and gradient screens
 Select separate fonts for captions and data, and set their sizes independently
 Maintain several document styles at once for invoices and orders

The Inventory Label Formatter creates inventory bar code labels in any size and configuration, based on inventory, sales orders or invoices, purchase orders or invoices or stock transfers. This visual tool is able to:
 Include your selection of dozens of data items from inventory and other sources
 Move the items and change their size, font, orientation and color
 Print text, lines, boxes and borders anywhere on the label
 Print any text as a bar code of any size and all standard symbologies
   (using optional bar code fonts)
 Include photos and graphics on your labels
 Print auto-incrementing numbers
 Select from many Avery standard label sheet layouts, or create and save your own
 Store any number of label layouts for different purposes
 Visually select the starting label number to print based on an Avery style number
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:: Modules and Add-On
Pacifica is sold and installed in modules.

There are five standard accounting modules and five add-on modules to extend the features of the standard modules.

The general ledger standard module is required. All others are optional. In each section, the standard module must be installed before the add-on can be installed.

The modules are:
General Ledger and G/L+:
General Ledger (required) includes chart of accounts, transaction processing, journal entry, financial reporting..
G/L+ adds profit center accounting, budgeting and financial report writer. 
Accounts Payable and A/P+:
Accounts Payable includes vendor list, purchase invoice entry and printing, cash requirements forecasting, cash disbursements and check printing, bank reconciliation, A/P aging and activity tracking.
A/P+ adds purchase order processing and printing, recurring order processing and disbursement processing.
Accounts Receivable and A/R+:
Accounts Receivable includes customer list, pricing and discounting by customer, sales invoice entry and printing, cash receipts, A/R aging and activity tracking.
A/R+ adds sales order processing and printing and recurring order processing.
Inventory Management and I/M+:
Inventory Management includes inventory list, inventory activity and profitability by vendor or customer, reorder by history, seasonal history or percentage of min or max stock levels.
I/M+ adds serial/lot/location capability, bill of materials and kit management, serial number and where-used tracking, bar code label printing and photo capability.
Payroll and P/R+:
Payroll includes employee list, payroll entry and check printing, federal and state tax table maintenance, tax and withholding reporting, federal quarterly report and W-2 printing.
P/R+ adds high-volume paycheck processing, time tickets, electronic timeclock interface, magnetic media W-2 reporting and photo capability.

In addition, there are industry-specific modules and integrated systems available:
  Seed Inventory Management:
A system designed to track the buying, selling, production, packaging and labeling of seed and grain by lot. This system changes the functions of A/P, A/R and Inventory.
  Pesticide Use Management:
A system to supplement inventory management and invoicing, to track pesticide and agrichemical applications and print legal documents required by state and federal agencies and the EPA.
  Point of Sale:
An invoicing module with interfaces to bar code readers, credit card swipes, cash drawers, pole displays and strip printers.
  Coffee Roaster's Inventory Management:
Inventory and A/R modules designed for the special requirements of coffee roasters.
  Sawblade and Tool Sharpening Tracking:
Serial number tracking and reporting for saw shops.
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:: Third Party Applications
Pacifica uses or supports interfaces to these other products:
IC Verify for credit card validation in Point of Sale.
Snowbound Software for image processing.
ClipperShip package labeling and manifest printing.
Trade Services for service industry inventory price updates.
Latham Time Clock interface to time tickets.
ColdFusion web application development for e-commerce.


VARs and developers sell and support add-ons to Pacifica. Modules have been written for wholesale and warehouse inventory, machine shop job cost, short run job cost and delivery route management.
:: Customization and Modification Tools
Users and developers have access to several areas where modifications and custom changes may be made in Pacifica.
The system operator may limit or modify access and privilege by menu or by screen for each user. Users with sufficient privilege may modify screens while they are operating them.
Possible changes are substantial, including:
Change the caption on any prompt
Rewrite or add to the help message
Add or edit a list box or autolist box
Add or change default values for the field
Change input characteristics
Set to skip or not skip
Set so cursor may not enter, or keyboard is locked
Set to require data or require a password before change
Set to obscure data if user lacks privilege

These changes are not affected by version upgrades, and may be turned off at any time.

Developers may use the visual screen generator, an integral part of any Pacifica installation, to make much more substantial changes to screens. This includes changing any visual or input characteristic of a field, adding new program functions to fields, moving or changing the order of fields, hiding unwanted fields or moving seldom-used fields to a second or third page. These changes are normally made in a custom library file apart from Pacifica's standard libraries and outside the company's database. In this way, the changes are isolated and protected against version updates in most cases, and may be easily removed.
Developers may write new programs or modify existing ones in either the C++ or SPL languages. SPL is a powerful compiled language designed primarily for writing reports from a SUMMUS database, but it has many applications besides reporting. All system reports and all reports created in the Pacifica Report Writer are written in SPL, and the source code for all system reports is available at no charge to developers. The SPL compiler and interactive debugger are built into Pacifica. C++ language source code for selected application programs is made available to developers on an individual basis.
 
:: Internet Strategy
Pacifica Research is currently working with several clients in a limited introduction to Internet commerce. This includes EDI order processing and invoicing, preparation of HTML-formatted inventory catalogs dynamically generated by ColdFusion. Pacifica's SUMMUS Client/Server, expected in second-quarter 2002, will offer an ODBC and ColdFusion interface for interactive e-commerce.
 
:: Product Development
Pacifica is engaged in developing a Windows Sockets compliant version of the SUMMUS database and accounting applications in a two-tier client/server architecture. While we feel that the SUMMUS relational database will remain the preferred server due to superior performance and a higher level of optimization with our applications, the ODBC interface provides a means of attaching Pacifica client applications to other servers, such as Access, My SQL, SQL Server or Oracle. We expect to ship an Access interface by year-end. We expect to deliver a programming interface from Visual Basic soon after, though core programming will continue to be written in C/C++.
 
:: ColdFusion Support
Our plans for Pacifica Client/Server include an Internet interface for presenting catalog pages from inventory records through ColdFusion.

In Brief
Pacifica Research„¢ publishes a complete line of real-time accounting software in Windows for large and small business payroll, inventory control, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.