1. Dynamics GP 2013 introduces improvements to common tasks like selecting printers, customizing the SmartList favorites pane, and designing new SmartLists from scratch or based on existing lists.
2. Year-end closing processes see changes like setting individual unit account rollovers, removing inactive accounts, and a new progress bar.
3. Payables improvements include easily switching 1099 statuses, generating Form 1096, automatically unapplying credits when voiding, and combining vendor IDs.
1. Dynamics GP 2013 introduces improvements to common tasks like selecting printers, customizing the SmartList favorites pane, and designing new SmartLists from scratch or based on existing lists.
2. Year-end closing processes see changes like setting individual unit account rollovers, removing inactive accounts, and a new progress bar.
3. Payables improvements include easily switching 1099 statuses, generating Form 1096, automatically unapplying credits when voiding, and combining vendor IDs.
Original Description:
A compelling argument for upgrading your current Dynamics GP configuration.
1. Dynamics GP 2013 introduces improvements to common tasks like selecting printers, customizing the SmartList favorites pane, and designing new SmartLists from scratch or based on existing lists.
2. Year-end closing processes see changes like setting individual unit account rollovers, removing inactive accounts, and a new progress bar.
3. Payables improvements include easily switching 1099 statuses, generating Form 1096, automatically unapplying credits when voiding, and combining vendor IDs.
1. Dynamics GP 2013 introduces improvements to common tasks like selecting printers, customizing the SmartList favorites pane, and designing new SmartLists from scratch or based on existing lists.
2. Year-end closing processes see changes like setting individual unit account rollovers, removing inactive accounts, and a new progress bar.
3. Payables improvements include easily switching 1099 statuses, generating Form 1096, automatically unapplying credits when voiding, and combining vendor IDs.
Are you thinking about upgrading to the latest release of Dynamics GP 2013, but youre not sure
whether its worthwhile to you?
Well, I could give you over 150 reasons why you might decide to upgrade, but instead, I will highlight just a few of my personal favorite new features!
Select Printer Oh, its the little things that bring joy to my world! GP 2013 introduces a standard Windows Print dialog box each time your report destination is set to Printer so that you can select your desired printer for each print job!
SmartList Favorites Pane Did I mention that little things make me happy? You can now control the Favorites Pane within the SmartList window. Choices are: Show, Hide, Auto-Hide, Increase Width, and Decrease Width!
SmartList Designer SmartList Designer is a tool that lets you create entirely new SmartLists from scratch, or allows you to base new lists on existing ones. You can add multiple tables to your lists, or base them on SQL Views. You can also create calculated fields, and you can even preview the results before saving your new list!
Year-End Changes There are quite a few changes in and around your General Ledger Year-End Closing that are sure to save you time. You can set individual Unit Accounts so their balances either roll forward each year or zero out. Choose to either keep, remove, or selectively remove inactive accounts during the GL closing process. There is also a new Progress Bar that shows the closing status while the process is running.
Easy Historical Journal Entry Inquiries There is a new dropdown box in the Journal Entry Inquiry window that lets you select the year to inquire upon, when looking up posted journal entries.
Reconcile to General Ledger There are significant improvements to the Reconcile to General Ledger routine that was originally introduced in Dynamics GP 10.0! Users can reconcile not only Payables and Receivables subledgers, but also Checkbooks and Inventory subledgers. In addition, you can look up previous reconciliations, and best of all, you can even drill back to Dynamics GP from the Excel file that the routine creates!
Exciting Payables Changes My four favorite new features in payables are: Easily switch a vendors 1099 status. Beginning in GP 2013, the Update 1099 Information window can be used to switch a vendor and all their pre-existing transactions from Not a 1099 Vendor into any 1099-able status necessary! You can use the Print 1099 window to generate the annual Form 1096. Credits are automatically unapplied when voiding payables transactions. Did you ever try to void an invoice in payables, only to have GP inform you that credits have been applied and therefore you cannot void the transaction? Well, now GP allows you to void those transactions and seamlessly unapplies any pre-existing credit transactions that were applied. Easily combine/modify vendors IDs. Did you ever discover that you have a vendor listed twice in your vendor list? Now you can easily combine those two vendors into one, and consolidate all of the transaction history from both original vendors! Even better, this also applies to customers, as well! Historical Depreciation Im shouting this one from the rooftops: FIXED ASSETS NOW HAS HISTORICAL DEPRECIATION REPORTS!
Simply select a cutoff date when generating your report, to get depreciation amounts as of the date you specify.
Suggested Selling Increase sales with suggestions for additional items Use the Suggest Sales Item Maintenance window to specify suggested additional items to sell when entering a Sales Order Processing invoice, quote, order, or fulfillment order. You can select up to five line items.
Inactivate Items I wanted to throw in one last little thing that makes me quite happy. There is now a simple checkbox in the Item Maintenance window that allows you mark an item as Inactive. Items that are marked inactive can no longer be bought or sold.
Final recap There are over 150 new features and enhancements in this version of Dynamics GP, which will optimize your productivity by saving you time and improving your processes. Another compelling reason to upgrade is that Microsoft has changed their approach to adding new features, so that features are being added with each Service Pack instead of only with new versions. This means that if you upgrade to Dynamics GP 2013, you will continue to receive new features with each service pack you install going forward!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Here is the link to download the official GP 2013 Whats New document, which contains information on all the new features, outlined by category and module. Here is the link to the System Requirements for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 page. This document includes system requirements for the GP Web Client. If you use any of the Dynamics GP Web Applications (Workflow, Business Portal, Web Services, SSRS), here is the link to the System Requirements for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Applications page. Note: The Dynamics GP Web Applications are not to be confused with the GP Web Client. The GP Web Client has its own system requirements.