If you have fallen behind.....
For those who have licensed DentaLab for QuickBooks, but are not sure if you are up to date, the easiest way is to click on Help on the top toolbar and then About.This will tell you the version and supplements you have licensed and your version level. You should be at XII Version 1.12.000.
If you are using a standard release (as opposed to custom) and have an up-to-date support agreement, please call in for instructions and authorization codes to download from our website. If you have been using MSDE (Microsoft Desktop Engine) for data management, our technical staff would also like to have you update from this to SQL Express 2005, as MSDE is no longer supported by Microsoft.
Some of you who have not been on support have expressed a desire to update to the latest version. For you, we have developed a schedule of update fees that will be available from now until January 15, 2008. Contact us soon if you are interested in doing this. We will not be doing a mailing as we did last year, but have posted the list of enhancements completed in 2006 and 2007 on our website mainstreet-systems.com in the Support/Releases section.
Systems that are significantly behind become the hardest and most expensive to support and inevitably, changes in technology, in dental laboratories, and in government regulations require that software be responsive. Don't wait until you get yourself in big trouble!
2008 Fee Schedules
Some, but not all of our license fees and monthly support fees will have small increases in 2008. We have ready the new price schedules for 2008, which you can request. For those to which the changes apply, you will see these in the January bills that are generated at the start of December.
If you have been thinking about adding users or one of the supplements, you may want to get this licensed before the end of 2007.
What's in the works?
We have completed development of a new software offering called Product Costing. This is now in beta-testing in labs in Australia and California. We will soon have a PDF overview available on our website and to email upon request. With this, you can use products (items) you already have in QuickBooks or in DentaLab for QuickBooks to start a product costing or develop one from scratch by simply entering a new product name. You can also begin with one of the samples provided with the system, which will show how labor, material, safety, shipment, royalty/licensing/outsourcing, and other costs can be calculated and tallied. You can experiment with pricing to show potential profitability. Reviewing your product costings can sometimes uncover ways to reduce costs. This is a tool to help ensure that you are working at a profitable level. It's introductory license fee will be $79 USD.
While Product Costing is very descriptive, we have been trying to come up with a more unique name for this. If you have any ideas, please send them in this month. If we adopt your suggestion, we will award a free license to you.
Here are some of the DQB projects in the works, slated for the January release:
- An enlarged user manual, available in PDF (described above in FAQ's)
- A new report providing a list of cases with extra time in their schedule
- A new report showing expired customer alerts
- Work center production analysis
- Incentive pay by percentage
- And more to come...
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