Most of Canada, including Softrak, has been on holiday the past two days, so you will probably hear from them tomorrow, but here is my two cents worth..

Yes, Adagio Payables (as well as Adagio Receivables and Invoices) integrates with ACCPAC Plus Job Costing. Yes, you need the ACCPAC Plus Windowing System Manager to run any ACCPAC Plus module, including ACCPAC Plus Job Costing.

No, Advantage Series Job Costing doesn't work at all with Adagio. You have to think of Advantage Series as a completely different program from ACCPAC Plus and Adagio - the ONLY integration it has is that its GL can retrieve ACCPAC Plus/Adagio subledger activity.

However, I believe the real answer to your question is to wait a few more weeks for the release of Adagio JobCosting. I don't know anything definite, except that I have seen the new Softrak Dealer Price List effective Jan 1, 2005, and it is listed as an available module. I have been using the beta version in house for a few months, and it is worth waiting for.

Steve Schwartz

Hello Roto-Rooter Plumbers,

We expect Adagio JobCost to be shipping early in January. It integrates with Payables, Receivables, Invoices and Ledger. I'll post a link to the specifications page once it's posted on our site.

Thanks for using Adagio!

Hello Roto-Rooter Plumbers,

Adagio JobCost is now available from Softrak!

Designed to meet all your Job Costing needs, Adagio JobCost integrates with Adagio Invoices, Adagio Receivables, Adagio Payables and Adagio Ledger to provide a one-stop Job/Project management solution. Paymate Platinum FROM ak mICRO and PayDirt from QLAB systems both provide payroll feeds, so duplicate data entry is eliminated.

There are introductory specials and bundles for this new Adagio module. Check out the information on the web and download an evaluation today!

Will Adagio AP 6.8B 20050112 be able to captures JobCost code (Adagio JobCost 6.8B) with its other transactions. I have worked with AP 6.8A with Dos Job Costing and found no indication of Job Code in AP 6.8A although it has a display field avaiable.

Hello smhoon,

Sorry, I think the answer to that question is "No". However, it is an excellent suggestion to consider now that we are finally shipping Adagio JobCost.

Thanks for using Adagio!

Having the job code in AP is very important as two of my customers want to know how much is due by a job basis to their creditors. I use Crystal Report for Adagio to extract this information by using the reference field in the AP transaction. It serves some results but not good enought. I have been looking at this solutions since the days of Accpac Dos with Quick report for Windows.
For your information I also had highlighted to Softrak on the availability of this code in Adagio AR. In AR with Crystal Report I have been helping my customers in analysing the debts outstandings by job code.

Hello smhoon,

Yes - your analyis and assistance are not forgotten, and they are much appreciated. As I said, we will be considering this for the next revision of Adagio Payables. We felt it was more important that we get Adagio JobCost shipping, with the benefits it offers, rather than delay its release so that we could implement all the suggestions we've have.

We are expecting to make significant improvements to all our products as each is updated in turn.

If it is very important to your clients that this information be available right away, then we would be willing to discuss implmenting this modification specifically for them on a custom basis. However, normally the expense of this is often (but not always) beyond what most packaged software clients are willing to invest in their solutions.

I am working around with evaluation copies of JobCost, AR,AP & Invoice. I make separate sample source entries from Invoice and AP and post the retrieved transactions in JobCost. I find that the following information need to be addressed in Adagio JobCost. In my opinion the Job Status Report at transaction detail level should reflects the relevant data particularly in its reference and description fields

These are the data that were posted from sample entries

In the Billing/Payments Heading
Reference / Description
"Blank" / "Blank"
In the Costs Heading

16characters
truncated name
of a AP / "Blank"

My suggestion is
In the Billing/Payments Heading
ARInvoice No / AR Name

In the Costs
Heading
APInvoice No / AP Name

The AR & AP default GL integrations are set as follows:
Send to GL Reference field = Doc Number
Sent to GL description field = Customer/VendorName