Features / Options
With Features / Options option, you can enable / disable various features and options in BUSY as per your requirement. Features / Options menu provides various features and options classified into eight sections or tabs. All the features and options are classified into the category to which they belong. For example, all the features related to accounting are kept under Accounts tab; all the features related to inventory are kept under Inventory tab and so on. To set various features and options, you need to perform the following steps:
Click Administration a Configuration a Features / Options option.
On clicking the Features / Options option, a Features / Options window appears. Given here is a screenshot of Features / Options window.
At the left hand side of the Features / Options window, various buttons are provided. On clicking any of the buttons, features related to that button will appear in the window. Each button represents a section of features. For example, if you click the Accounts button then all the features and options related to accounting as provided by BUSY appear on the screen. You can enable / disable features of your choice.
In this courseware, we will discuss only the first four sections i.e. General, Accounts, Inventory and Sales Tax / VAT / GST. Rest of the sections will be covered in Advanced Courseware.
Let us first start with the Regional Setting.
4.1.1 Regional Setting
With the Regional Setting, you can configure various Regional features that cannot be classified under Accounts, Inventory or any other section. These features are Regional features and can be used with any other feature of BUSY. On clicking the Regional Setting button, features related to Regional Setting section appears. Given here is a list of features that appears on clicking the General button.
Date Format
Select the format according to which date will be displayed in BUSY.
Specify the symbol to be used as date separator. For example, you can use a hyphen (-), slash (/), colon (:) as date separator.
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.
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.
Format for Displaying Numbers
In this data field, you can select format for displaying numbers in BUSY. One option is the Indian Decimal System (9,99,99,999.99) and other is the International Decimal System (999,999,999.99).
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.
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.
