General
With the General section, you can configure various general features that cannot be classified under Accounts, Inventory or any other section. These features are general features and can be used with any other feature of BUSY. On clicking the General button, features related to General section appears. Given here is a list of features that appears on clicking the General button.
Currency Symbol
Enter currency symbol of the country where your company exists. By default, currency symbol as specified at the time of company creation appears here.
Currency String
Enter currency string of the country where your company exists. By default, currency string as specified at the time of company creation appears here.
Currency Sub-String
Enter currency sub-string of the country where your company exists. By default, currency sub-string as specified at the time of company creation appears here.
Format for Displaying Numbers
Skip Currency Separator in Numbers
Specify ‘Y’ in this data field if you do not want the currency separator i.e. comma to appear in numbers.
Date Format
Select the format according to which date will be displayed in BUSY.
Date Separator
Currency Decimal Place
Specify the number of digits to appear after decimal in the currency amount. For example, if you specify ‘2’ in this data field then a number 538.246 will be displayed as 538.24.
Country / State Information
Under this sub group, two data fields, Country and State appear. Specify the country and state where your company exists. By default the country and state as specified at the time of company creation appears here.
If the country selected is India and state selected is Assam / Chandigarh / Himachal Pradesh / Jammu & Kashmir / Kerala / Meghalaya / Mizoram / Punjab / Tripura then a Load Default Invoice Formats button appears next to the State data field. Click this button if you want to load the default invoice formats for the state. The default invoice formats are the formats that are specified by the respective state governments.
Delete Exported Files on Closing the Company
Exported files refer to the files that are exported from BUSY in html, txt, xls or pdf format. By default, these files are exported to the folder where data of the company is stored. With this option, you can delete all such files that are exported to data folder of the company. In the list, there are three options. The options are:
Never – Select this option if you do not want to delete exported files from the company’s data folder.
Specify ‘Y’ in this option if you want to view thought of the day at the time of company startup.
After you have entered the appropriate information, click the Save button to save the information.
Let us now move on to the Accounts section.
