Big Bird

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Big Bird is an online accounting service for small businesses.

2023

"Big Bird" 2.0 with error audit

A commercial version of the Big Bird 2.0 warehouse, operational and financial accounting system has been released. The system is distinguished by an understandable interface and a set of capabilities that help entrepreneurs effectively manage their business. This was Eteron announced on November 1, 2023.

In Big Bird 2.0, you can keep stock records, register wholesale and retail sales, take into account production and services, control revenues and expenses, Monitor supplier work and analyze business activities. The system will suit companies of different sizes: from a small beauty salon to production, which need not only to work "here and now," but also to do it as efficiently as possible, understanding where the business as a whole is going.

In addition, Big Bird 2.0 has features that make work more convenient:

• Audit errors. Minimizes the possibility of making mistakes by employees. System prompts will help you learn about problems before they become critical and take action in time, avoiding business consequences.
• Automatic save. All user actions in the system are saved and never deleted. Changes can be "rolled back" and traced back to history. This means that nothing will happen to the data and errors can always be corrected.
• Business rules. Sets of conditions that are used at specific points in a company's business processes. Help increase the accuracy and speed of making frequently repeated operational decisions, save time.

Big Bird 2.0 with the ability to maintain a catalog of goods with any degree of detail

A fully functional version of the online system for operational, warehouse and financial accounting Big Bird 2.0 has been released. The main task that the system helps to solve is resource management and automation of business processes of companies in the fields of procurement, wholesale and retail sales, warehouse accounting, services, production, finance. This was announced on September 28, 2023 by Eteron.

Here are some of the features of Big Bird 2.0:

• Catalog. In the system, you can maintain a catalog of goods with any degree of detail. You can use any characteristics of goods and services: colors, sizes, expiration dates, etc., take into account goods by serial numbers and batches.
• Business analytics. The system allows you to create reports with data in any sections. The amount of data in the sample, the degree of detail, the conditions for inclusion in the report - everyone decides for himself what exactly he needs.
• Statement of Financial Results. Preparation of the operational statement of financial results under the direct-costing system, calculation of gross, margin, operating and net profit. Breakdown of fixed, variable and other income and expenses under items.
• Revenue and expense accounting. The income of the organization can be detailed by the type of income and the source of receipt, and expenses can be grouped by four popular classifications: the direct costing system, economic elements, the method of inclusion in the cost price, cost items.
• Audit errors. Helps minimize the possibility of employees making mistakes. System prompts will help you learn about problems before they become critical and take action in time, avoiding business consequences.
• Automatic save. Nothing will happen to the data and errors can always be corrected. All user actions in the system are saved and never deleted. Changes can be "rolled back" and traced back to history.

2015

Big Bird received a data exchange module with online stores

On May 25, 2015, it became known about the release of the version of the Big Bird online accounting system. The release includes a module for exchanging data with online stores created on popular platforms UMI.CMS and OpenCart.

Owners of online stores using Big Bird had to manually update product and price data in the store, transfer information about orders received to the accounting system. Now this is done automatically.

Synchronization of the accounting system with online stores helps to automate internal business processes, increase the speed of order processing, reduce the number of errors, and timely update information about prices and balances of goods. Ultimately, doing business more efficiently translates into increasing the company's profits.

"It's no secret that most of the market is still occupied by desktop accounting applications," said the Oleg Sidorenkov development director. Eteron- In turn, Big Bird is a modern web application. Undoubtedly, those people who already do business on the Internet are more loyal and open to the idea of ​ ​ keeping records online. Therefore, it is especially important for us to be in demand for this part of our target audience. Developing integration with online retailers is one of our top priorities. "

The Big Bird has a system for working with orders

On January 26, 2015, the next update of the Big Bird online accounting program was released. The main innovation was the addition of an order management system that allows you to optimize the purchase and sales process.

The system implements two types of orders, the buyer order and the supplier order. The buyer's order reflects the buyer's intention to purchase the item. He acts as a binding document for the sale and purchase transaction. All transactions - shipment, payment, delivery of goods - are considered as part of the order. Users can quickly track the status of each order, reserve goods in stock. This allows you to process orders quickly and without errors. The order system will help you to always be aware of the stage at which the transaction is located.

In turn, the order to the supplier expresses the company's intention to purchase the goods. You can either create a purchase order directly or use a special "Fill Assistant." This tool allows you to automatically fill an order to a vendor based on customer orders, minimum item balances, or average sales speed.

Order Completion Assistant is one of the most popular functions of the Purchase Management System. Thanks to automated order filling, you no longer need to keep a lot of sales data in your head, remember what, when and from whom you need to buy. Therefore, it has now become much easier to manage purchases at Big Bird. '- says Oleg Sidorenkov, development director.

Among the major changes is the addition of a new print form for a universal transfer document that combines an invoice with a delivery note. It became possible to quickly make edits to several product cards at once and automatically calculate the cost of the set based on the price of its components. The article number is displayed in reports and the function of viewing the files attached to the document directly in the browser, without downloading.

Big Bird's plans for the near future include working with the characteristics of goods (color, size, etc.) for effective accounting in retail stores selling clothes and shoes.

2013

Big Bird update

On December 1, 2013, Eteron released a new version of the Big Bird accounting system. The appearance of the system has undergone significant changes, the user interface has been optimized and redesigned.

"We have always been proud of what our system looks like," said Oleg Sidorenkov, Development Director of Eteron LLC. - One of the main advantages of Big Bird is the so-called "rich interface," which allows users to comfortably work with a rather complex accounting application. The main changes affected the internal structure of the design elements. This became possible with the advent of new technologies and an increase in the number of people using modern Internet browsers. The general logic of working with the application, which was originally carefully thought out, has not changed significantly. As a result, the system has become much faster to respond to user actions, and the download speed of the web application has also decreased

• Import of documents from client-bank banking programs was implemented, which allows you to reduce labor costs and reduce the likelihood of errors when entering bank statements.

• The retail module of the system was further developed, which opens up new opportunities for accounting for small stores.

Update: Retail Functionality Support

On August 28, 2013, Eteron announced the release of a large-scale update to the Big Bird online service. The new version implements a wide range of retail functionality.

"This is a very important stage in the development of our project," said Sergey Melnikov, General Director of Eteron LLC. - Until recently, only wholesale companies could use the service. With the addition of retail, there has been a significant increase in the number of potential users of our system. Now it is also suitable for small stores that sell to the end customer. "

The introduction of the retail module made it possible:

• Accounting for one or more outlets/stores
• registration of sales and returns of goods, printing of commodity checks;
• cash and cashless payments with buyers;
• work with shifts: opening and closing shifts, generating reports on sales per shift.

The new release includes the seller's interface - a specialized program for the cashier, which allows you to make sales and returns with minimal time, easily and quickly select goods in a check according to various parameters - name, code, article number, as well as bar code using a scanner.

2012

Opportunities

• Keep inventory and financial records
• Create and print documents
• Maintain reference books necessary for business
• Generate a variety of reports

Main characteristics

• Create documents. Big Bird forms, prints and sends by e-mail such documents as an invoice for payment, a certificate of services, a consignment note, an invoice, a cash receipt order, a cash expense order, a payment order, a receipt note, a transfer note, an act of reconciliation of mutual settlements, a power of attorney for receiving goods and others. In this case, documents can be issued both without VAT and including VAT.
• Storing information in reference books with a convenient and easily customizable structure. The Big Bird reference books are a quick search for the necessary information and autocomplete documents. The following reference books are available in the system: firms, goods and services, partners, employees, cash flow items, and others.

• Accounting for the receipt, sale and transfer of goods. "Big Bird" draws up all the necessary operations related to the purchase or sale of goods, their reservation in the warehouse for a specific buyer, internal warehouse accounting.
• Accounting for the receipt and implementation of services. Big Bird forms all the necessary documents to take into account the purchased and provided services, including in the context of contracts.
• Accounting for the movement of money. "Big Bird" takes into account the movement of cash and non-cash funds, tracks balances at the bank and cash desk, you can keep a cash book in it.
• Revenue and expense control. In Big Bird, all receipts and expenses of the company can be distributed into cash flow items using both a ready-made reference book of articles and a specific business.
• Analyses. Big Bird provides the following reports for operational assessment of the state of affairs and analysis of business results:
  1. Stock balances by warehouse
  2. goods reserves;
  3. goods movement;
  4. status of settlements with partners;
  5. Sales report (with profit estimates for each item type using FIFO and average cost methods)
  6. sales dynamics;
  7. movement at the cash desk;
  8. movement on the bank;
  9. movement of money by articles.
• User-friendly interface. "Big Bird" is implemented according to the principle of "desktop" accounting programs and therefore has the following key features:

the ability to work with multiple streams of information in different windows; Delete and restore data from the recycle bin, repeat steps, and cancel user actions. Customizable Quick Access Toolbar for all system functions and more.

• Maintain multiple companies within a single account. "Big Bird" allows you to organize separate accounting for several companies without the need to register different accounts.
• Multi-user access with role distribution. In Big Bird, you can configure information access restrictions for each specific user.

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