A common headache for our Client's accounting departments month end process is expense allocations. It's often time consuming and having to remember or keep track of the allocation methodology used each time. NetSuite has an Advance Financial tool that does just that automatically.

 

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NetSuite and Salesforce are two powerhouses in the cloud business tools industry. In some ways they compete for customers. NetSuite can provide many of the same tools as Salesforce, however, there are many organizations who decided NetSuite will be the system of record for financials, manufacturing, inventory, order processing, etc yet rely on the power of Salesforce for CRM.

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A challenge for Non For Profit NetSuite Clients are the numerous segmentations that can be applied in a transaction. A Donation, Pledge, or Grant record could require multiple segmentations to help the Client manage funds that are coming into the organizations; many funds have specific applications or restrictions on how it can be used. If used improperly, it can cause Client to lose the funds. SuiteKey is designed specifically to help the User more efficiently enter data on a transaction level.

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If you maintain inventory that has variable attributes (commonly size, color, or style) in NetSuite, then you are probably familiar with matrix items. Matrix items are an excellent option for organizations that sell products which are fundamentally similar in form (i.e. t-shirts) but differ in one or two categories (i.e. size and color), as they allow you to group all of the related the child items under a common parent. While these capabilities are extremely useful for products with options that need to be tracked distinctly, there are some cases where item options need to be captured on transactions for informational purposes and are not actually separate products. In these scenarios, transaction item options might be a better fit. In this blog post, I’ll provide an overview of transaction item options to help you decide if it’s the right approach for your requirements.

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Avidxchange for NetSuite’s latest cloud technology is a web-based payment fulfillment service designed to provide solutions for accounting departments of all sizes. This gives you a new way to bring processing of payments into the cloud.

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When making bulk updates to existing records in NetSuite, there are two approaches that are typically used – mass updates and CSV imports. Depending on the specific updates being made and the frequency with which the updates will be performed, you may find that one approach is better than the other. In this post, I’ll share key differences between the approaches along with a few practical use cases for each.

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Whether you have in house developers or working with NetSuite Partners, it is good to have some standards around testing implementations and new customizations. Generally, for brand new implementations or customizations, the testing advice is the same though the individual cases may be different.

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NetSuite releases two system upgrades per year to all accounts, often providing new functionality within existing features in addition to launching brand new capabilities. Prior to being upgraded to the new release, all accounts are given access to a release preview environment that allows users to preview the changes in a sandbox-like setting. Detailed documentation describing all changes that are included as part of the new release are also provided at this time and can be accessed from the New Release portlet and in SuiteAnswers. In this post, I’m going to share the five changes that are being made as part of 2021.1 that I am most excited about.

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For organizations that has multiple subsidiaries and they need to have different accounting periods and tax periods, please consider enabling multiple calendar in Netsuite OneWorld. This feature is available only in NetSuite OneWorld and is not enabled by default.

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