Peachtree® by Sage 2009 New Features

Prior to Peachtree 2009, only the most recently closed year information was available for general ledger and financial statement reporting purposes. Beginning with the Peachtree 2009 release, information will be available for general ledger and financial statement reporting purposes for all closed years. This will allow you to run general ledger reports and financial statement reports for all years that you have closed using Peachtree 2009 and future releases. For this reason, if you need to close the year at this time, we recommend that you upgrade to Peachtree 2009 first and then close the year. This way, you will be able to immediately see the benefit of this feature by being able to report on two closed years instead of just one.

Now, Peachtree will inform you when you try to save a transaction with any non-standard Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable account. In addition, you will be alerted when a non-cash account is entered into a cash account field in Receipts or Payments. This makes it easier to catch potential accounting errors BEFORE they happen.

A Safe Deposit Box for protecting your financial Data!

Help keep your company's financial data safe with 100 MB of off-site storage with Peachtree Online Backup powered by Iron Mountain. Included with your Peachtree 2009 upgrade and each subsequent upgrade, you can now protect your critical information against hardware failures and catastrophic events.

The Cash Flow Manager gives you a powerful tool you can use to quickly grasp the state of your business's cash. It shows you the balances of your cash accounts, cash expected to come in, and cash expected to go out. In addition, you can modify settings, such as the time frame you want to see, the types of transactions (invoices, quotes, purchases, and so on) you include and expected totals.

1) Improved Employee Records

For richer reporting and better compliance, Peachtree now offers new employee fields including suffix, birth date, gender, and rehire date. Peachtree now has a Vacation and Sick Time tab on the employee record that you can use to easily vary the time-off options by employee.

2) Improved Payroll Formula Setup

Peachtree has improved the Payroll Formulas windows (formerly Payroll Tax Tables) to make them easier to use. Peachtree has made the terminology friendlier, added links to Help and examples, and added fields to walk you through the setup of different categories of formulas.

3) Improved Payroll Reports

Payroll Tax Liability Report - With the improved Payroll Tax Liability Report, you are able to review the liability calculated per employee and the liability based on total wages.

Vacation and Sick-Time Report - You will now be able to preview, print and e-mail vacation and sick time reflecting activity and balance.

4) Other Payroll Improvements

Based on user suggestions, Peachtree has made other payroll improvements for Release 2009. For example, you can easily rename and reclassify payroll fields.

Peachtree now integrates with Crystal Reports 2008. Use Crystal Reports 2008 to get an improved report viewing experience, enhanced report designer productivity and advanced information visualization capability. You can create what-if models that enable you to make important decisions. Crystal Reports 2008 gives you a more streamlined and flexible report designer.

Crystal Reports 2008 is included with Peachtree Premium Accounting 2009 and Peachtree Quantum 2009 and can be installed from CD 2.

In Release 2009 the Time Tickets and Expense Tickets windows have been remodeled to make them easier to use.

SmartPosting is a posting option which improves performance in Peachtree because it allows you to save transactions without waiting for them to post. This is especially beneficial in a network environment because you can use a separate computer to post transactions. The SmartPosting service will cycle through the database looking for transactions to post. Peachtree will appear to be operating using real-time posting since the SmartPosting service will automatically post transactions.

With the release of Peachtree Quantum 2009, you now have the ability to upgrade to a higher user capacity than ever before. You can select between 10, 15, 20 or even 30 users to better run your business.

Peachtree 2009 has improved performance so you can get up and going faster. Quickly open companies within Peachtree to access information.

Peachtree 2009 also minimizes the amount of down-time caused by users being blocked out of screens in a multi-user environment (only for multi-user ready versions).