Visual AccountMate/LAN offers a wealth of powerful features such as multilingual capability, transaction rollback, drill down analysis and graphical presentations of inventory items you want your customers to see. VAM/LAN is extremely user-friendly, with a short and easy learning curve specially suited to today's fast-paced environment

Available Modules
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System Manager

Visual AccountMate System Manager is the control center for the entire Visual AccountMate system and must be installed in order to run all the Visual AccountMate modules. Featuring a windows interface and multilingual capability, System Manager controls the system environment and setup, on-line help, multi-level password security, printer setup, module and company selection, system date and all pop-up menus and initializes the system. With all of these features and much more, VAM LAN 5.0 delivers enhanced efficiency, productivity and security to any business.

General Ledger

Visual AccountMate General Ledger gives you maximum control in managing all of your accounting transactions. You can set up and maintain their chart of accounts, generate financial statements and reports, or create journal entries and budgets.

Accounts Receivable

With Visual AccountMate Accounts Receivable, you have the power of a complete invoicing, receivables, customer and inventory management system. And when integrated with Visual AccountMate Sales Order, you have a complete order entry plus billing and receivables system, allowing you to better manage your business.

Accounts Payable

Visual AccountMate Accounts Payable lets you avoid duplicate invoices and late payments. It double checks if invoices are supported by purchase orders, and automatically takes early-payment discounts. The system can manage payments for all types of 1099 vendors and print applicable 1099 forms. When integrated with Visual AccountMate Purchase Order, you get a complete vendor and purchasing system that will enhance your ability to manage your vendor base and valuable financial resources.

Inventory Control

Visual AccountMate Inventory Control gives you the power of a complete inventory management system, including the ability to define each inventory item's cost method, unit-of-measurement, warehouse and bin location. You can assign serial numbers to inventory items; define multiple substitutes for an item; record transfers of units from one item to a similar item, or to the same item in a different warehouse; list all the vendors that supply a particular item, or all the items supplied by a particular vendor; copy inventory items to another company; and facilitate physical inventory counts.

Manufacturer's Inventory

With Visual AccountMate Manufacturer's Inventory, you can create work orders and explode jobs into virtually unlimited levels of raw material, labor, machine and subassembly components. You can break large jobs into multiple starting dates; post work-in-process automatically or manually; print work orders, routing slips, production slips and a wide variety of reports; and track jobs, resource usage and backorders to the posting of finished jobs and the cancellation of any unused allocated resources. Bills of materials are used to define manufacturing jobs and are supported by the inventory, machine usage and labor usage files.

Contact Manager

Visual AccountMate Contact Manager provides a complete, automated system for managing multiple contacts. CM stores all vital business and financial data about contacts and customers; includes an enhanced report designer, contact filters, mail merge and e-mail functions. CM integrates with Sales Order to offer a complete order-entry system providing current customer information.

Features include: Complete contact record information; Up to 48 user-defined fields can be added to contact records; Integration with customer file; Easy-to-use Contact Management Database; Powerful Custom-Report Generator; When CM is linked to VAM AR through SO, users can list invoice and payment transactions entered through the AR module.

Payroll

With Visual AccountMate Payroll, you can set up records for salaried, hourly and time card/piece work employees, and for independent contractors. You can choose to withhold deductions using different methods. Salaried and hourly employees can be paid using default hours, rates and deductions. The system calculates payroll taxes and prints payroll tax returns, W-2 forms and 1099 forms. Employee and federal tax deposit payments can be made electronically.