Blue Link is your all-in-one accounting, business management, and ERP inventory system solution. Blue Link software is designed from the ground up with a robust accounting backbone that makes it impossible to put the system out of balance. Blue Link’s accounting functionality is built for small and medium-size wholesalers and distributors.
Blue Link ERP accounting functionality is tightly integrated with its inventory management, order entry and processing and warehouse management functionality for an all-in-one solution. Blue Link’s accounting functionality is designed with wholesale and distribution businesses in mind and includes features for managing multiple companies, locations and business processes, as well as retail and eCommerce operations. Specific functionality includes:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Trustworthy Accounting | Our posting integrity controls prevent your books going out of balance. If any transaction would result in a control account of trial balance out of balance situation, the transaction will not post. This way, even a negligent or malicious 3rd party program or data edit cannot circumvent these controls. |
| Credit Card Processing & Encrypted Data Vault | Blue Link helps businesses achieve ERP PCI Compliance through its encrypted credit card data vault and also provides a credit card processing gateway for processing transactions. |
| Multi-Currency | Blue Link is fully multi-currency from the ground up. |
| Multi-Company | You can operate multiple companies (on the same server) at no extra cost. |
| Inter-Company Postings | The Inter-Company optional component automates the processing of transactions between related companies, auto-balancing the inter-company loan accounts on both sides. |
| Recurring Entries & Reversing Entries | Makes it easy to account for monthly expenses, amortize annual costs over fiscal months, and handle period end accruals. |
| Multi-Dimensional General Ledger | Facilitates tracking GL transactions in up to 4 dimensions. |
| Advanced, Dedicated Collection Management | Makes collecting receivables easy and helps circumvent the most frequent delay tactics employed by overdue accounts. |
| Flexible, Powerful Sales Tax Management System | Includes automated calculation of remittances to multiple sales tax authorities / jurisdictions. Optionally interfaces with online sales tax rate subscription service (US only). |
| Alternate Vendor Payment | Makes it simple to pay vendors by credit card, yet still track the costs and expenses to the specific individual vendors – whether payment is made up front or after the fact. |
| Multiple Bank Account Management | Bank reconciliation features allow multiple simultaneous payment runs to be handled, allowing departmental approval processes, and multiple payment types (including electronic payments). Can manage accounts in any currency. |
| Proper Accrual System | For receiving purchases and landed costs, with control accounts and sub-ledgers, and on screen reconciliation with suppliers invoices. |
| Advanced Inventory Features | As an all-in-one system, Blue Link ERP doesn’t only include accounting functionality, but also advanced inventory management features. This allows you to manage your entire wholesale and distribution business with one system. |
Liana and I are of course getting excited about retiring. Our last day will be September 26 so the finish line is within sight now. We would like to think we have left the company in good shape and in a large part that has been because of our decision to use Blue Link as our accounting package. We almost feel that you are part of the company because of the close working relationship we have. Thanks once again for marketing a great product and supporting it with a devoted staff.
Blue Link’s accounting functionality includes various built-in reports, financial dashboards and reporting tools. These reports provide a snapshot of your company’s financial status at a specific point in time and can be used to make informed decisions about the future. Financial dashboards allow you to see important information in a format that is easy to read and helps to quickly identify patterns, opportunities and threats. For more information about accounting reports in Blue Link ERP, check out our demo video.
Blue Link’s Financial Report Writer is an Excel add-in that links general ledger data from one or more Blue Link databases to Excel and provides an easy method to create financial statements such as (but not limited to) Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets.
Using the familiar interface of Excel, this add-in links to live Blue Link general ledger data and facilitates segmenting reports by up to 4 distinct segments (assuming they are being used in Blue Link):
Blue Link’s Financial Report Writer is an easy-to-use reporting tool that transforms Excel into a tightly integrated analytical tool for your ERP data. This specific add-in links to Blue Link general ledger data, however, as an Excel tool, allows users to combine ODBC-linked data from other sources (such as Blue Link sales history, or other databases entirely) in the same workbook for easy access and distribution of important business data and reports.
Blue Link’s robust accounting functionality is just one piece of our entire ERP solution. Designed for wholesale and distribution businesses in a variety of industries, Blue Link ERP includes much more than just accounting such as inventory management, warehouse management, order entry and processing, purchasing and more.
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Blue Link ERP provides integrated Accounting Software and Inventory Management Software to small and medium sized businesses, primarily wholesalers & distributors. READ MORE
