If you’re looking for tried and true business information products, look no further. Our software has met the test of a diverse user base. It has been beat upon by the storm of time and technological change and has proven itself durable and valuable. We offer software that works. We know you need your information NOW! We understand that time waits for no one.

Our software is portable and scalable. DataNOW® can be installed on locations with as little as a single user up to large multi-server, multi location environments. Whatever your computing environment, we know your world and can help you simplify it.

With simplicity comes control. All our users have a say in how our product performs and the direction of future features. Our customers get to control what other softwares they use with ours. We simplify the interface between our product and proprietary third party applications used by our customers. With this comes the ability to enter information once in the system, and our software takes care of the rest. Imagine a life with no more unneeded manual interfaces. DataNOW® helps its customers reclaim valuable time.

Do you need more time in this ever demanding world? Our product understands multi-tasking. Never waste time unnecessarily opening and closing applications. Leave the windows open that you need. Our programs even support multiple instances of the same window open at once. Our windows are developed to meet your needs. You can customize your applications to your specific situations. Your the user, you define how it works.

With all this DataNOW® tops it off with world class support. Our customers get a knowledgeable human support agent when they call our technical support. We are small enough that every individual matters to us, yet big enough to get the job done efficiently.

Using the links to the right, look at what is offered in our suite. Feel free to examine the features of our software using the lists we’ve included by application. This is a broad overview of each application. For more information just give us a call.

Managing debt is one of the most critical elements of running a business. Accounts payable represent the extension of credit which suppliers are willing to provide if timely payments are made. Abiding by credit terms is essential to having and expanding credit availability.

Our "Accounts Payable" application is designed to allow you to account for supplier debt, meet multiple supplier credit terms, report individual account and total supplier debt, provide payable histories, do government reporting (1099 & W9), help with cash management, distribute cost to multiple operation centers, and much more. It operates under various accounting methods (Cash, Tax, Accrual, OCBOA, etc.) and meets GAAP and GASB specifications. Accounts Payable is fully integrated with other DataNOW business information applications.

• Supports cash or modified accrual accounting methods
• Utilizes an open item accounting method for enhanced control and audit trails
• Accommodates fund or multi-company payables
• Permits inquiries by vendor, name, invoice number, check number, SIC code, and POnumber
• Enables user-defined aging of invoices by invoice date, payment date, or discountdate
• Generates a cash requirement recap by all payment date assignments
• Permits payment date assignment/reassignment by vendor number or name
• Maintains multi-year vendor payment histories
• Supports user-defined termsfor automatic payment and discount dates and amounts
• Provides for user-defined vendor ordering remittance addresses
• Accommodates multiple standard commodity identification codes with cross referencesto vendors
• Includes performance coding for vendors
• Prints checks using existing or newly designed forms
• Supports user-defined fields for each vendor
• Records minority vendor codes
• Generates
  • W-9 forms
  • Vendor 1099 payment journals and forms
  • Check/warrant register journals with summary or detailed expense item modes
  • Vendor purchase recaps with prior year history
  • Mailing labels for all vendors or by SIC code

Accounts receivable represent credit you have supplied to your customers or monies you are entitled to receive under various funding programs. Extending credit or recognizing available funds is a critical part of business operations. It is essential that these monies not be tied up any longer than necessary. The more frequent your cash turns the greater your sales and potential profit; or the better you can provide the services for which your organization is commissioned.

Our "Accounts Receivable" application allows you to account for any monies owed to you, or that you are entitled to receive. The brief feature listing below provides an example of how it can be used in a Cash/Tax/Accrual/OCBOA/etc. accounting system. It is fully integrated with DataNOW's other business information software and is GAAP and GASB compliant.

• Maintains open item or balance forward receivables
• Supports multi-companyreceivables
• Permits fixed billing with limits
• Allows inquiry by customeror by invoice number
• Generates cash disbursements
• Supports flexibleterms and advance dating
• Maintains a billing history
• Generates customeraging and customer payment statistics
• Permits user-defined aging periods
• Generates automatic credit/payment distribution if invoice number is not entered
• Maintains salesman history by period
• Prints mailing labels
• Prints statementsusing existing or newly designed forms
• Supports statement print override percustomer
• Generates finance charges for all or selected customers
• Supportsuser-defined fields for each customer
• Includes invoice/license printing andreal-time posting of invoice/license transactions

Building permits are required by most local government organizations. The permit allows local communities to regulate growth in general, and specifically what types are acceptable to the community. They also help control multi-use zones so that their purposes remain intact.

Our "Building Permits" application allows the entity to permit any function and collect the revenue for that circumstance. Additionally, it includes user-defined record keeping of inspections for the permitting process.

• Allows user-defined types for permits, inspections, buildings, school districts,work classes, fire zones, inspection results, violations, and fee codes
• Enables queries for permits and inspections by application number, permit number, file number,owner, contractor, and address
• Supports inspector file maintenance and optionalcontractor files
• Violation codes compliance
• Includes reports for
  • Daily permits and inspection tabulations
  • Violation incidents
  • Schooldistricts
  • Permit inspections
  • Delinquent inspections
  • Fire Marshall
  • Census tract

Business licensing is used by local governmental entities to control the type of businesses that are authorized in the governmental entity and where they can operate.

Our "Business Licenses" application is multi-functional. It allows the user to define business codes and any other information that you wish to collect. It also supports collecting license fees and creating/printing business licenses.

• Addresses both the business entity's information and its relative assessments
• Supports user-defined assessment types and rates for fixed flat fee, varying fee based on unit quantity range, gross payroll, number of employees, and percentagebased on gross sales
• Provides flags for late fees, penalties and interest
• Allows queries by license number, business name and geocode
• Maintains information for mailing addresses, an unlimited number of owners, and comments sortable by periodand/or sequence number
• Identifies account information by up to eighteen differentassessment codes
• Supports instant account inquiries
• Accommodates anunlimited number of codes per business

Collecting and receipting cash is something that all organizations do to some degree. Cash is the most easily diverted asset in any organization. It requires special care when there are numerous or large receipting transactions.

Our "Cash Receipting" application is designed for large amount and/or volume cash receipting operations. One of the places it is used most often is with our Utility Billing application. It is also fully integrated with the other DataNOW applications. See the abbreviated features list below.

• Interfaces with DataNOW Utility Billing, Accounts Receivable, Business Licenses, Building Permits, General Ledger, Special Assessments, and Tax Assessments for bothover-the-counter cash receipts and mass receipts
• Balances cash drawers
• Accommodates check cashing
• Maintains deposits and overall balances
• Supportsmultiple receipt sources and receipt reversal
• Generates fiscal summaries

Reconciling your bank accounts should be fast and easy. You should be able to interface with your bank electronically to improve accuracy and timeliness.

Our "Check Reconciliation" application allows you to do all of this plus define specific transactions.

• Operates as a transaction-driven system
• Enables queries by bank accountnumber, check number, and date
• Supports real-time clearing of checks/deposits
• Generates check/warrant registers
• Supports establishing one, or a series ofbank/cash account numbers that define the flow of checks and deposits
• Accommodatesuser-defined transactions
• Redeems checks from a bank tape or floppy
• Includes reconciliation reporting

Fixed assets represent property acquired by an entity that has a useful life beyond one year. These are productive assets that allow the entity to carry on it operations. It is required by GAAP, GASB, and tax law to physically account for, value, and match the cost of these assets to present and future operations through depreciation and amortization over a useful life period. When an asset ceases to be productive, all remaining capitalized costs must be expensed against operations even though physical possession must be accounted for until the asset is discarded. This is a major responsibility for management, and a good fixed asset accounting system is mandatory to sort out its complexities.

Our "Fixed Assets" application meets all of the above needs, as well as providing for user-defined groupings for responsibility and accountability. Salvage values are also handled by our application. The following listing provides highlights of some of the application's other features.

• Accommodates multiple entities
• Supports all generally accepted depreciationmethods
• Generates hard copy audit trails for all changes to an asset
• Posts automatic depreciation entries to General Ledger and Fixed Asset Maintenance
• Supports depreciation registers for physical periods
• Supports symbolic perioddepreciation schedules
• Enables asset searches by description, serial number,tag number, model number, and purchase order
• Optionally generates asset numbersautomatically
• Supports asset linking for primary and auxiliary asset reports

All productive assets require maintenance. Accounting for and scheduling this maintenance is essential so that they remain productive and available to operations. Work order management and control is critical in managing maintenance. Knowing when the cost of maintenance is greater than acquiring new assets, and knowing when maintenance has extended the useful life of an asset is a must in asset utilization. Having a procedure to capitalize and match life extension maintenance to future periods is also required. Integrating these features together with fixed asset accounting, purchasing, inventories, and general ledger vastly simplifies the overall process and empowers users.

Our "Asset Maintenance" application is essential to managing fixed assets. It is fully integrated with the other DataNOW applications and is a great management tool. The partial feature listing below magnifies the power of this application.

• Accommodates multiple locations within a single database
• Supports comprehensiveequipment profiles with multiple retrieval methods
• Permits user-defined laborcodes, fuel sources, maintenance schedules, and equipment classifications
• Enablesdriver-to-equipment and/or equipment-to-driver assignments
• Automatically recordsparts/consumables for individual assets
• Maintains accumulative records for equipmentcosts by period
• Includes logging for equipment problems
• Records employeeprofiles
• Supports repair work orders and automatic PM work orders
• Providespick lists for PM work orders
• Supports bulk fuel inventory
• Includesfunctionality for problem reconciliation
• Enables inventory integration withDataNOW Inventory Control, and labor entry integration with DataNOW Payroll
• Interfaces with DataNOW Fixed Assets for depreciation accumulation
• Supportsmonthly flat rates or hourly rates for equipment use
• Includes prepared reports for
  • Data listings
  • Equipment cost/use summaries
  • Overdue-for-service
  • Maintenance and operating costs
  • Exceptions
  • Gallons and mileage
  • Costs classified by department
  • Detailed equipment information by period
  • Fuel source level/cost

All of your entity's financial and management information is stored in your general ledger's chart of accounts. The structure of the chart of accounts allows the entity to collect and report all of the information necessary to run variable operations. Having a user definable structure for the chart of accounts is the first basic criteria for a good general ledger. All organizations must also be able to budget and compare the actual results to the plan. Reporting this information is the second basic criteria. It is one thing to have collected the data, it is quite another to report it in meaningful comparative internal and external formats. In today's world you must meet variable management, GAAP, GASB, OCBOA, tax, and many other reporting formats.

Our "General Ledger" application gives you 24 characters for developing a chart of accounts. We will soon have a sixty (60) character account format available. It will allow much greater diversity in operational flexibility. We don't tell you how to run your enterprise. You design it, report it, and make it whatever you choose. If you need to budget, you can do it with or without paper. Electronic budgeting with a variable approval process is standard. The chart of accounts is on-line and real-time. You want to interface with other software, download it, manipulate it, and then bring it back. If you've collected it, you can report it with our own report writers. Custom or compliance reporting is standard and easy (even all GASB reports). Any authorized user can build their reports. Security is very comprehensive. The feature list below will amplify how flexible, definable, and manageable our General Ledger software can be. You want to know now? Get DataNOW General Ledger.

• Includes budget preparation
• Features user-defined account numbers with ninepossible sub-account breaks
• Supports user-defined transaction codes
• Accommodates multiple active accounting periods, and transactions and balances spanningmultiple years
• Supports 12 or 13 period fiscal years with unlimited closingperiods for reversals and adjustments
• Enables automatic year-end reversals withaccount carry-over override capability
• Allows processing current year periodswhile closing prior year periods
• Budgeting by account and/or groups
• Budgeting on a period or annual basis
• Permits any-time budget preparations andadjustments
• Includes budget preparation work sheets with support for up to 5prior years and 3 future years in addition to the current year
• Allows real-timejournal entry and adjustment posting
• Assigns transactions unique control numbersassociated with the user ID and date
• Supports both cash and accrual accountingmethods

The management of personnel requires major effort for all organizations. People are an organizations most valuable asset. Helpful information for employees and management facilitates growth, harmony, and productivity. Having a HR record system augments communication of expectations and promotes growth plans. Keeping records on critical employee issues will provide the needed information for accurate and employee relations.

Our HR software is linked directly to our Payroll applications. It is integrated with Payroll Budgeting, and can assist with all kinds of employee services. The feature list below highlights many of its features.

• Provides tracking for
  • Applicants
  • Interview data
  • Job class assignments
  • Dependents
  • Employee certifications and endorsements
  • Education
  • Skills from applicantto employee
• Automatically updates applicant and employee data in DataNOW Payroll
• Generatesglobal salary table updates for posting to Payroll
• Permits scheduled changesby effective dates to Payroll
• Accommodates salary table processing
• Providesemployee class schedules
• Includes reports for position control and EEOC

Inventories represent the material element of many entities current assets. Maintaining them at optimal levels for maximum service, production, or for resale efforts is a major benefit to the organization. Inventory turn is essential to good cash flow and management.

Our "Inventory Control" software is designed to allow the user to know on a real-time basis what is invested in inventory by a user-defined inventory location. It is a powerful tool in organizing and accounting for products used internally or for resale. It is fully integrated with other DataNOW applications.

• Features a real-time, point-of-sale inventory tracking system with ordering, receivingand invoice management
• Accommodates actual, average, LIFO, and FIFO costing
• Automatically reorders based on user-defined reorder points
• Provides comprehensivework order capabilities
• Includes extensive vendor quote procedures
• Calculatestaxes from user-defined tax tables
• Selects pricing based on customer
• Verifies customer credit with DataNOW Account Receivables
• Records lost sales
• Supports multiple locations

Laboratory analysis software has many forms and types. Our "Lab Analysis" software is designed to be used specifically with Waste and Landfill management facilities. The general feature list below will help to explain the scope of its use and capabilities.

• Maintains records for an unlimited number of test locations
• Supports theUSGS naming system for analytes
• Accommodates custom input record layouts forthe purpose of uploading results from multiple laboratories
• Provides multipleuser-defined limits for editing test results

Payroll accounting is critical to any organization. Anyone who has ever run a company knows just how complicated it can be. Dealing with multiple payrolls and payroll types is only a small part of how difficult it has become in modern organizations. Timekeeping, various retirement programs, various leave programs, vacations, employee profiles, training and development, supervision, etc., are all major elements of this difficult and important function. Having software that is flexible and powerful enough to meet these requirements as well as budget their financial consequences is a must.

Our "Payroll" application can meet these demands. It can handle payroll requirements both large and small. It can manage multiple payroll cycles along with their individual accounting specifications. It fully integrates with most of our software and can usually be adapted to any situation. The feature list below further describes its usefulness.

• Manages both regular and interim payrolls
• Distributes costs automatically
• Allows effective date updates
• Supports payment of multiple pay cycles
• Generates hard copy audit trails for all entry processes
• Supports multiple employeerates
• Permits maximum flexibility in numbers and types of deductions
• Manages all employees: hourly, salaried, or combinations
• Accommodates shiftdifferentials
• Generates global updates for deductions
• Supports directdeposit banking
• Generates both SUTA and FUTA work sheets
• Manages stateindustrial insurance
• Generates W-2 forms, 941 quarterly reports, and exceptionreports
• Calculates FTE automatically
• Maintains employee contracts, codedcalendar schedules, job class files, leave tables, and more
• Accrues vacation,sick and compensation time (up to five different leaves)

Budgeting the impact of payrolls in an entity is a very complex accounting process. It is further complicated by the large volume of detail associated with payroll/paymaster operations and employee status. Allocating this process to the various levels of operation and management only makes it more challenging. A solid budgeting program that allows for multiple budgets, budget-to-actual comparisons, and is integrated with the general ledger's complete budget process is highly desirable. Our "Payroll Budget" application matches these qualifications exactly.

• Automatically generates budget periods
• Permits access to employee profilesfor budget changes
• Automatically generates employee time cards, earnings, andbenefits
• Sends budget transactions to the General Ledger
• Supports user-defineddistribution reports

In many organizations, custom work is done for internal operating centers or for the entities own projects. A special accounting system is required to manage these special projects. Keeping track of all the costs by project is essential.

Our "Project Costing" application is designed for maximum flexibility. It can be used in many different situations besides just project accounting. It is frequently used to enhance cost allocations within operations. It is fully integrated with payroll and other DataNOW applications.

• Manages payroll labor, materials, budgeting, encumbrances, and other costs for aspecific project
• Accommodates unlimited comments for each project
• Validatesproject number and accounts at entry and posting
• Provides for unlimited user-definedfields
• Includes reports for
  • Project master listings
  • Project account validation listings for entry andposting
  • Project ledgers with life-to-date and year-to-date totals
  • Projectledgers by work order ranges
  • Deletion listings of completed projects by date

If you have no way of reporting the data you have, why collect it? We believe you should be able to build your own reports, and present the data in any format you require. Our easy-to-learn report writer enables you to extract data generated by our applications, or from any other MSSQL databases you might have.

• Simple, user friendly, wizard-style interface for selecting, updating, and reportingdata
• Export and import data from multiple standard sources such as spreadsheets
• Data from up to sixteen tables may be joined to create output records
• User-definedfields may be used in joins and search expressions
• Database schema information, such as field size, type and collation, are readily accessible during the data selectionprocess
• Collation compatibility is handled automatically during join operations
• Search conditions can be specified in standard SQL, or classic DataNOW Report Writersyntax
• New tables can be generated automatically using data generated from ReportWriter queries
• Data can be exported into delimited flat files for use in productssuch as Excel, dBase, and Access
• Data can be imported from delimited or fixed-lengthflat files
• User-defined dictionary files may be used for custom data formatting
• Data can be displayed in user-defined custom reports, in a spreadsheet-style grid, or as a "quick" report with headings, columns, and summary data formatted automaticallyby the Report Writer
• Custom report definitions enable complete user controlover heading, detail, break, and end sections
• Alpha and numeric field formatsare completely customizable
• Special built-in functions are available for time, dates, page numbers, totals, percentages, averages, ratios, duplicate blanking,record counts, and more
• Includes record update and delete functionality
• Supports user prompts for input fields in custom report scripts
• Frequently usedreports can be executed from the standard DataNOW menu and Windows Explorer
• Queries and update operations generated using the graphical interface can be saved as script files that support new item definitions, join rules, search criteria,update operations and more

Software designed to provide control over purchasing is important to many organizations. In many cases, it is required by legal statute. It can be a very powerful control system along with properly prepared budgets. The software must be flexible, and integration with other applications is highly desirable to maximize ease of use and total benefit.

DataNOW software is very strong in this area. It allows for many control features as well as the ability to do competitive bidding. See the feature list below.

• Creates voucher transactions for payment through Accounts Payable, and expensesto General Ledger budget accounts
• Permits multiple line item budget distribution
• Transfers requisition data automatically to purchasing department for assignmentof purchase order numbers, prices, vendors, etc.
• Supports partial line itemreceiving/dis-encumbrance
• Permits users to set up asset record for purchases
• Updates inventory quantities automatically when a warehouse purchase order is received
• Permits entry of unattached voucher for reimbursables
• Supports multiple levelsof user authorization
• Accommodates distributive requisition entry
• Warehouserequisition issue entries validate item numbers and quantity on hand
• Enableschecking of budgets at requisition, purchase order, and voucher levels
• Supports department head requisition approval with special capital purchase item approvalsecurity
• Provides for user-defined department head maximum approval amounts
• Allows vendor quotes on requisitions and purchase orders
• Generates requisitionorder quote worksheet area by line item
• Accommodates requests for requisitionworking copies
• Supports automatic disencumbering
• Generates change orders
• Transfers purchase orders automatically for match with invoices for receipting andcreating vouchers
• Accommodates blanket POs that can be set up and received against
• Permits inquiry for pre-encumbrance amounts on requisitions and purchase orders
• Optionally generates number assignments for requisitions, purchase orders, and claimsvouchers automatically
• Includes reports for
  • Outstanding purchase orders by PO, vendor, or account number
  • Working copyrequisitions
  • Purchase orders and completed purchase orders
  • Unattachedclaim vouchers
  • Requisition status
  • Requisition/purchase order/claim vouchercross references

Special assessment software accounts for and documents the development of infrastructure projects within municipalities. It is mandatory to account for the allocation of project costs, for the billing and collecting of these costs by property locations and entity ownership.

Our "Special Assessments" application does all of this and much more. Please review the list below for a feature overview.

• Maintains user-defined payment scheduling and interest rates
• Permits multipleaccount access paths: account number, name, and service address
• Generates paymentschedules automatically using either a straight line or a declining method
• Maintainsalternate contacts for an account
• Is an open item accounts receivable
• Permits operator assigned data entry
• Maintains multiple periods of history
• Distributes full and partial payments, automatically or manually
• Allows forearly pay-offs
• Generates automatic penalties and finance charges
• Supportsnine digit zip codes and mail carrier routes

DataNOW’s Substitute Scheduler application gives you the means to schedule substitutes for regular employees and to generate payroll transactions from the substitutions.

The Substitute Scheduler application has been designed to be as dynamic as possible. This means that you are able to define your own data. You can customize the data within the system to meet your specific needs and retain your own terminology. The dynamic codes and associated information include Employees, Substitute Preferences, Exclusions, Endorsement Codes, Schools, School Periods, and Action Flags.

The scheduling of substitutes for regular employees is powerful, quick and easy. The user is presented with a three-month calendar view to provide dates with a simple click of your mouse. Dates already scheduled for substitution are bolded on the calendar view to provide the user with a visual clue regarding availability. Employee school data can be retrieved automatically when the employee is supplied. Periods checked for substitution are established with beginning and ending times so the application can calculate hours for payroll generation. An inquiry function, available from the scheduling screen, allows the operator to access historical data to review substitutions and retrieve key data fields with a simple mouse click to the scheduling program. Comments can be supplied for individual substitution occurrences, schools, and substitutes. A single reporting program creates reports by Date, Employee, Substitute, School, Building, Action Flag, or Time Block. The report can also be run to include historical data.

• Scheduling of time for either employees or substitutes as the primary data target.
• User-defined school codes, each with individually defined school periods.
• Automaticchecks to identify when scheduling conflicts occur.
• Checking of substitute preferencesand exclusions during scheduling.
• The ability to control data included in dropdownlists for Schools, Employees, and Substitutes.
• Bolded dates on scheduling calendarfor easy, visual availability check.
• Inquiry function from scheduling screento check history of substitutions and retrieve data.
• A default action flag tocomplete multiple substitutions in a quick and efficient manner.
• The abilityto provide hours of substitution when using periods is not applicable.
• The ability to be a stand-alone application or to interface with DataNOW’s Payroll and HumanResources applications.
• Employee Leave and Substitute Payroll generation toDataNOW’s Payroll application.
• A friendly, easy to use menu system that canbe operated with a mouse or keyboard.
• Standard Windows functionality
  • Drop-down list boxes by button click or f4key
  • Online Help by f1key
  • Mouse over Tool Tips
  • Cut/Copy/Paste
• Additional program operation functions available by button click and shift fkey.

The assessment, billing, and collecting of property taxes is a major function of many governmental entities. It is a complicated process with different and specialized methodologies. It is very difficult to write software that meets the great diversity of processes used by each state and governmental taxing unit. They all seem to have their own unique legal requirements.

Our "Tax Assessments" package is designed with flexibility in mind. The listing below highlights the core elements, which can then be modified as needed for your specific environment.

• Provides up-to-the-minute data
• Supports user defined
  • Payments schedules by parcel
  • Mortgagors
  • Categories
  • Tax codes
  • Tax areas
  • Exemption codes
• Maintains the accounting of all assessment, exemptions and tax values for abstracts
• Includes functionality for special taxes, penalties, and interest
• Generatestax A/R
• Operates from a flexible working database, rolling data into a tax yeardatabase
• Retains all factors used in calculation of taxes for each parcel
• Enables inquiry by deeded owner, taxpayer, parcel, etc.
• Supports multiple reportsand data audits

Governmental treasures have unique accounting requirements to meet. It takes special software to help them manage the fund's operations and control the cash of the entity.

Our application is a basic treasure accounting system to build upon. The unique nature of the treasurer's job requires the software to be modified to the specific situation. See the feature listing below.

• Tracks operations within funds
• Features
  • Treasurer warrants
  • Fund balances
  • Journal debits and credits
  • Auditor's certificates
  • Disbursements by warrants
  • Amounts received throughauditor's certificates, etc.
• Tracks issued and redeemed warrants
• Maintains registered warrants

The billing of utilities, water, sewer, electricity, storm water, cable television, and others, incurs many special challenges. There are many different recording and collection methodologies employed by various utility entities. The receipting of the utility revenue and the account balance accounting is also very complicated. Utility accounting software with broad capabilities to match these diverse needs is difficult to find.

Our "Utility Billing" application is that find. It has been developed over a long period of time and with the help of many utility providers. Its feature listing is extensive, but far from a complete presentation.

• Accommodates metered billing, fixed billing, miscellaneous billing, and combinations
• Enables billing for virtually all services, including electricity
• Permits multiple account access paths: account number, name, service address, meter number, meter serial number, customer number, customer ID, geocode number, permit number, permitcomment, tap number, backflow device number, and service order number
• Supportsmultiple meters and alternate contacts for a single account
• Handles compound,deduct, demand, and DVAR meters
• Interfaces with handheld meter reading devices
• Maintains open item accounts receivable
• Provides account and service accountstructural design
• Generates automatic penalties, finance charges, and delinquencynotices
• Includes service account stub design
• Generates automatic proratingof starts, disconnects, and rate changes at the account or the service level
• Maintains multiple periods of billing and consumption history
• Accommodates droughtmanagement requirements, including rationing and penalties
• Distributes fullpayments and partial payments automatically or manually
• Estimates automatedmeter readings
• Generates hi/low edit check for meter readings
• Maintainsnine digit zip codes and a mail carrier route
• Accommodates multiple depositsand interest for an account
• Supports average payment plans
• Maintainsa customer information subsystem
• Generates system and user-defined reading errorsand warnings
• Prorates user-defined rate changes
• Calculates multipleunits of measure automatically
• Includes meter maintenance history
• Generatesaccount work orders
• Tracks payment arrangements
• Enables multiple commentsfor accounts and meters
• Supports alternate route sequencing
• Possessesan account write-off subsystem
• Supports automatic bank withdrawal
• Accommodatesproject share billing
• Generates multiple reports including
  • Automatic meter reading sheets
  • Recommended disconnect lists
  • Creditbalance reports

Managing a depository for waste materials entails many accounting challenges. Keeping track of trucks, weights, customers, rate structures and generating regular billing is very specialized in this area, and many of these functions are regulated both locally and by federal organizations.

DataNOW Landfill Management software is designed to meet these demanding requirements. It communicates with electronic scales and integrates fully into other DataNOW software applications, such as General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Utility Billing.

• Provides local or centralized control of an unlimited number of sites
• Uses user-defined transaction codes to define cash, charge, contracted, and other typesof transactions
• Supports user-defined and maintained rate schedules
• Allows for multiple level weight-based rate tables
• Accommodates incoming oroutgoing loads
• Permits entry of alternate units of measure by weight, volume,or load for any transaction
• Enables the user to define and maintain customer,vehicle, container, and trailer master tables
• Generates automatic remindersto re-tare vehicles on a pre-defined schedule
• Minimizes operator keystrokesper transaction, resulting in faster throughput
• Displays a listing of vehiclescurrently on-site at all times
• Accommodates unlimited transaction history
• Optionally interfaces with DataNOW Utility Billing and General Ledger
• Linksvehicles to customers
• Supports multiple types of taxes
• Allows discountsby customer
• Automatically interfaces with most weigh indicators