3rd Quarter 2007


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In this Issue:
Upcoming Seminars and Conferences

GL/Financial Management GL/Financial Management
September 18—21, 2007
La Crosse, Wisconsin

This seminar covers beginning and advanced procedures for reconciling cash books, allocating your general ledger account into multiple accounts, setting up and running repeating and reversing journal entries, reconciling AP and PO pending invoices, and billing service contracts.

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Fall 2007 La Crosse Customer Conference Fall 2007 La Crosse Customer Conference
October 2—5, 2007
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Celebrate fall in La Crosse by attending the Fall 2007 Customer Conference. Join with your fellow dealership cohorts, share your experiences, and learn new things about your business. We offer courses for all levels of expertise, and there is always something exciting planned for after hours activities. You won't want to miss it.

Check our website soon for upcoming agenda. Register Here
World Expo 2007 World Expo 2007
August 22—24, 2007
La Crosse, Wisconsin

We will be presenting the latest features from La Crosse Nextgen as well as our Raptor suite, featuring Sales Force Automation and Field Service Device integration. There are many new features to see, including Dashboards, Bar Coding, Credit Card Processing, Customer Care, Image Store, OSA Raptor, and much more!

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Current News

New Horizons for La Crosse Management Systems and ECI²

ECI² As you may have already seen in previous publications, La Crosse Management Systems has been sold to eCommerce Industries (ECI²) of Fort Worth, Texas as of June 29, 2007. This acquisition marks the beginning of a new era for La Crosse Management Systems. As with other companies acquired by ECI², La Crosse will operate as a subsidiary company and will continue to market and support the existing product line, which includes La Crosse Nextgen, the eNextgen e-commerce platform, Tech Raptor, Sales Raptor, and other La Crosse products. Sales and support of the products will continue to be handled by our current staff from La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Rest assured, we will continue as a vital entity, and remain dedicated to providing you with the technology required to effectively compete in today's market. We are always moving forward with the development of new enhancements and features in our products. Now, as part of the ECI² family of companies, we will be able to leverage the resources and expertise of ECI² to accelerate our development cycles and provide additional benefits to our customers as never seen before.

We look forward to continuing our tradition of providing you with the software and services you need to fully optimize your company’s productivity and profitability.

Learn more about ECI²

See the official press release




User Tips

Finding Program and Report Titles on the Nextgen Main Menu Interface

A feature that has proven very useful on the Nextgen Main Menu Interface is the Find feature. From any screen on the Nextgen menu, you will see the Find button in the tool bar (binoculars). This feature works best if you click on the Home button and start finding menu titles from the beginning screen.
  • When you click on the Find button, enter any key word or key word phrase, then click Find Next.
  • You can keep searching through the entire Nextgen menu until you find a match.
  • Program titles and report titles that are located on password-secured screens are not included in the search.


Missing Tax Band Rate for Quantity Break when Billing a Contract

This could be caused by two reasons:
  1. The Contract Line Item Charge Break (Level 4) effective dates of the contract are after the start of the period you are billing the contract for.
    • If you look at the base due date (on level 1) billed in arrears (let's say it is July 1, 2007), the base billing period is 3. When you bill it, the date range for base billing will be April 2, 2007 - July 1, 2007. The effective date on the 4th level records for base needs to be before April 2, 2007.
    • If you look at the base due date (on level 1) not billed in arrears (let's say it is July 1, 2007), the base billing period is 3. When you bill it, the date range for base billing will be July 1, 2007 - September 30, 2007. The effective date on the 4th level records for base needs to be before July 1, 2007.
    • If you look at the meter due date (on level 1) (let's say it is July 1, 2007), the meter billing period is 3. When you bill it, the date range for meter billing will be April 2, 2007 - July 1, 2007. The effective date in level 4 for the meter codes not equal to BASE (ie. BW, CLR, etc.) must be before April 2, 2007.
  2. There is a missing tax band or the tax band effective date is in the future.
    • If you go into File Maintenance > GL Financials 2 > Work With Taxes, right click on your Tax ID and choose Work With Tax Bands. Then right click on the tax code that is on the contract and choose Work With Tax Rates. Make sure there is a record here and the effective date is prior to the dates the contract is billing for.

Closing Remarks

View from the Top

As all of you know, we sold La Crosse Management Systems, Inc. to eCommerce Industries, Inc. (eci²) on June 29, 2007. We would like to issue a sincere THANK YOU for your business and patronage during the past 14 years of our ownership reign. We will press on and continue as usual to make our products better than ever.

We want to thank you for letting us be your partner in dealership automation software training and development.

Until next time,
John Brostrom
Tom Smith

Contact Information

La Crosse Management Systems, Inc.
La Crosse International, Inc.
200 Main Street
Suite 220
La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-784-8400
Fax: 608-791-5660
Email: info@lacrossesoftware.com
Website: http://www.lacrossesoftware.com
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT: For questions or concerns regarding software or technical support issues, please send an email to LMS Support at support@lacrossesoftware.com.
  • TRAINING SEMINARS/ON-SITE TRAINING: For questions or concerns regarding seminars, conferences, product orders, or on-site training, please send an email to LMS Sales at sales@lacrossesoftware.com.
  • FACILITIES: For questions or concerns regarding a hotel or other facility, please see our Travel Tips page http://www.lacrossesoftware.com/traveltips.html.
  • GENERAL INFORMATION: For all other inquiries, please send an email to info@lacrossesoftware.com.
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