Introduction
Welcome to our business-user friendly guide on Empress, your comprehensive business management platform. In this guide, we’ll help you navigate through Empress, focusing on user interface and practical applications, without the technical jargon.
Understanding Empress
Empress is a robust platform for managing all aspects of your business. The Company feature represents the company records in Empress, allowing you to create multiple records for different legal entities. Customer and Supplier features represent your business contacts, with features for creating multiple contacts and addresses for each.
Item, Account, Address, Contact, and Communication are other essential features that help you manage your inventory, financial transactions, location details, individual contacts, and communication records, respectively.
Navigating Through Empress
To access these features, follow the steps below:
- Company: Go to Setup > Company
- Customer: Go to Selling > Customer
- Supplier: Go to Buying > Supplier
- Item: Go to Stock > Item
- Account: Go to Accounting > Chart of Accounts
- Address: Go to Selling > Address
- Contact: Go to Selling > Contact
- Communication: Go to Support > Communication
Empress for Accounting
Empress also offers a comprehensive suite of accounting features. The Fiscal Year feature lets you operate multiple financial years. The Cost Center feature allows you to separate your expenses by product line or business group. Journal Entry, Sales Invoice, and Purchase Invoice help you manage your general ledger entries, billings, and invoices.
To access these features, follow the steps below:
- Fiscal Year: Go to Setup > Company > Fiscal Year
- Cost Center: Go to Accounting > Chart of Cost Centers
- Journal Entry: Go to Accounting > Journal Entry
- Sales Invoice: Go to Accounting > Sales Invoice
- Purchase Invoice: Go to Accounting > Purchase Invoice
Empress for Sales, Buying, and Inventory
Empress simplifies your sales, buying, and inventory processes. You can classify your customers using the Customer Group feature, manage potential sales with Lead and Opportunity features, manage the pricing of items or services with the Quotation feature, and confirm the terms of delivery and price of an item with the Sales Order feature.
To streamline your buying and inventory processes, Empress offers features like Purchase Order, Material Request, Stock Entry, Delivery Note, Purchase Receipt, among others.
Empress for Human Resource Management
Empress can also be used for managing your employees. Features like Employee, Leave Application, Payroll Entry, Salary Slip, Appraisal, Attendance help you manage your staff efficiently.
Empress for Manufacturing
Empress also comes with features designed for manufacturing businesses. Features like Bill of Materials (BOM), Workstation, Work Order, and Production Planning Tool help you manage your manufacturing processes.
Customizing Empress
Empress is highly customizable. You can create Custom Fields, set Global Defaults, set Print Headings, define Terms and Conditions, and set Unit of Measure (UOM) according to your business needs.
Conclusion
With Empress, you have a comprehensive and user-friendly platform for managing your business. From accounting, sales, buying, inventory, human resource management, to manufacturing, Empress has got you covered. For additional non-technical resources or support, visit (insert support page link here).