Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Foresiight Software!
This year has been nothing short of amazing! As we reflect on the year, we’re filled with gratitude for all the achievements we’ve made together. Our highlights for 2024 include innovative software developments, our growing Foresiight family, and more! 2024 has truly been a fulfilling year!
At Foresiight, we understand that running a pharmacy in a fast paced, dynamic environment is no small task. Thank you for choosing Alchemii to assist with maintaining efficiency, accuracy, and ensuring compliance in your business.
Thank you so much for your support throughout the year, we couldn’t have done it without you. We are excited to see what the new year brings and anticipate even more growth and success in 2025!!
Alchemii New Features and Enhancements in 2024
This year we introduced a whopping 85 NEW features to Alchemii, and rolled out 71 useful program enhancements to elevate your experience with using Alchemii within your business. Here are some of our key highlights from the year:
Alchemii FRED
Alchemii users are now able to run the Auto-Charge and PBS invoice generation manually from POS Control where required. This is particularly useful where sales need to be posted earlier than the automated posting routine or if the automated posting routine failed to run.
Lightning Payroll Integration
Foresiight Software has partnered with Lightning Payroll, enabling users to seamlessly import payroll journals directly into Alchemii. This integration simplifies the payroll process and enhances overall efficiency.
With this new feature, users can easily manage their payroll data, ensuring accurate financial records.
The collaboration between Foresiight Software and Lightning Payroll aims to streamline operations and support better financial management.
EFTPOS Surcharges
EFTPOS surcharges can now be managed automatically via supported integrated EFTPOS systems, Linkly and Tyro.
Surcharges can also optionally be applied to deposits on Jobs, Sales Orders and Backorders.
Central Bill On-the-Fly
A new feature has been launched that enables selected Sales Invoices to be charged directly to the child account of a central-billed customer.
With this new feature enabled, the operator is now able to select on-the-fly, during entry of a Sales Invoice, whether to charge to the parent account or to the child account. This feature has also been added in the Banking Batch entry screen, enabling allocation of invoice payments from both the child account and the parent account.
Special Buy-Ins Extensions
The suite of features around Special Buy-ins continues to grow with more and more time saving functionality.
- A new column indicating Special Buy-In links is now visible from the sales document entry screen on the Select Existing tab and on each line item under Item Detail tab.
- Special Buy-In labels can now be printed directly from the Sales document screen. Previously this option was only available before a supplier delivery docket or invoice was entered, up to the time of posting. This can be found under the Picking List / Delivery Docket button from the Item Detail tab.
- A new field has been added to the purchase order layout to print details for special buy-in links to sales documents. The blurb will be displayed as “Invoice 1000000 has a Special Buy-In for Qty 2”.
- A new version of the Open Purchase Orders Report allows the user to report on the Special Buy-In details. The report prints the heading details of the purchase order along with the Item, description, customer code, customer name, sales document number, Ordered (on purchase order), Buy-In (Qty linked from sales order) and Due Date.
- Users will now see when a Special Buy-In link is attached to a Purchase invoice. This is indicated by the “S” column on the List tab and the “Buy-In” column on the Stock/Details tab. This will assist users recognising invoices with Special Buy-In’s.
Retrospective Stock Valuation Report
Previously, the Stock Valuation was a “live” report, with no ability to back date to an earlier date.
A new feature has been added that enables the operator to choose a retrospective date on the Stock Valuation Report. This allows users to be able to retrieve valuations from the historical data.
Transactional Statement
Transactional Statements present all transactions within a selected date range, in order of the transaction date. This new feature has been introduced to mimic the Account Detail report, but for the purpose of sending a historical transaction list to your customer.
The design can be built using the Document Designer and customised much like an Invoice or Statement design can be.
Customer Relationship Management
Improvements to the CRM module allow for a seamless capture of customer information with minimal hassle and maximum efficiency. This enhanced workflow streamlines the enter/edit process of collecting customer information, saving valuable time and improving productivity.
- A new feature has been added to mark a customer contact as being reviewed. This can be useful when updating contact information or confirming information is still valid. This date can be set per contact with the Last Reviewed and Recent Review dates visible on the Detail tab in Edit Customer screen.
When creating a new contact, Title and First Name fields have been separated into individual fields and users now can add a customer ABN. These fields are available in the Add New Customer and Edit Customer screens.
A new import function to update individual customer values in bulk has been introduced into the Data Import/Export module.
This can be found under Import | Customer Data Imports | Update Customers from Text File. The following fields can be updated: Issue Statement, Credit Hold flag, Area code, and Account Manager.
There were many more new features and improvements introduced in 2024. To view a full list of updates, see the complete release notes by logging into your Support Centre via the client portal Support Centre.
Welcome to the Foresiight Family
This year we happily welcomed many new businesses to the Foresiight family. We look forward to working together in the years ahead, driving growth and achieving success in both their short, and long-term, business goals. To each and every new client we are excited to have you onboard – Welcome to the family!
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