As always Trendex is looking out for new and innovative ways to utilize and recuperate your computer investment. Since our last newsletter many new developments have occurred. We are constantly developing our software and having new products brought to our attention by our
customers as well as third parties and feel it is our duty to provide these services to all our customers.

Once again, Trendex realizes that you have made an investment in your computer system and we are there to allow you to use that investment to become more organized, have more information faster and run a more
efficient and profitable business.

Here is a brief overview of the latest
modifications and new programs:

• Gastrend Graphical Version: The new Gastrend Graphical is now available. Enjoy Windows functionality and access features using the mouse. The new graphical look of the menus and programs makes working with the Gastrend software even easier. Click on the screen below to view an example of one of the graphically redesigned programs.
  
  
  New features available in Gastrend Graphical include:
  
  
• Print Preview: All reports can now be viewed on screen prior to printing. Complete invoice details can be viewed on screen (in the format of the form) and be faxed or emailed directly from server.
• Payment by two methods: Counter Sales invoices can now be paid by two payment methods (i.e.: part Cash & part Credit Card).
• Priced Quotes: Quotes are now completely priced with taxes, hazmat, transport charges, etc. and printed, faxed or emailed with all charges included. Customers will know the total price at the time of quotation.
• General Ledger: Any General Ledger account can be viewed with all transactions for an unlimited period of time.
  
  
• 4th Generation Routrend Mobile Delivery Software: With graphical easy-to-use touch screens and an integrated bar code scanner, order entry and cylinder tracking has never been this easy. This rugged mobile computer stays in constant communication with your office server, which means that data is stored right on your main server and file transfers are no longer required. Delivery notes are priced and all extra charges are automatically added at the time of entry, so they can be printed on a wireless printer in the truck and signed by the customer without delay.
  
  
• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT): Allows you to create a file and email it to your bank so that vendors' invoices can be paid electronically. Therefore, you do not need to print and mail checks to your vendors. Your vendor is paid faster and you remove the paperwork involved.
  
  
• Truck Load Sheet: Lets your driver know what gases and hardgoods need to be loaded onto the truck for the route that he is about to deliver.
  
  
• Wyse Winterm C90LE: The Wyse Winterm C90LE allows users to safely access the Trendex Software on a PC. This thin computer is also very secure, with no viruses to worry about. Replace the old "Dumb Terminals" with the new Winterm thin client. This solution is ideal for users that do not need to access the internet or use any PC software such as Word or Excel, but need to access the Trendex server. It is also ideal for locations that are dirty, such as the warehouse, since the Wyse C90LE has no moving parts. The Wyse C90LE could work for up to ten years without any major maintenance, similar to "Dumb Terminals".
  
  
  
  
• Lot Number Control for Gases: This new option will allow you to track Medical Gases by Lot Number. A search can be done by Lot Number to find all the customers to whom a specific Lot Number was delivered.
  
  
• Receipt Printer: You can now print your counter sales invoices on a receipt printer on 3" roll paper in order to save money on preprinted business forms. The Gastrend software will allow you the option of printing to the preprinted 8.5" X 11" form or on the receipt printers.
  
  

The following are enhancements made to
previous versions of Gastrend:

• Keep the components of a Welding Machine in your main server: Users may now enter the details of an inventory item with different components and then view the components in the Product Inquiry or directly through the order/invoice entry.

• Standard remarks can be kept permanently in the system and printed on Delivery Notes & Invoices: Inventory remarks per item. The user will no longer have to retype for each item the product remarks. The system now allows the users to enter up to 60 character remarks for each item. The user may enter unlimited remarks per item and then have these remarks print on the orders and/or the invoices.

• Add & Remove an extra charge for a specific product or gas as required: Extra charges per product and/or gas. The user may now code an extra charge to be attached to a specific product and/or gas. If the product/gas is entered on an order or invoice, the system will automatically charge the amount entered. This amount can be charged per invoice or per product/gas entered.

• Keep track of those goods returned to your supplier until replacements or credit notes are issued: Merchandise return option in the Purchase Order Module. Users will be able to return merchandise to their suppliers by indicating the RMA number and whether the item is returned for credit or replacement. Inventory will be affected, the items will be removed from inventory and a credit note will be updated to the Accounts Payable Module.

• Charge cylinder rent based on highest monthly balance: New cylinder rental option, to bill the customers by the highest balance of a cylinder they had in their possession during the month. The system will take this balance and calculate the month end charge.

• Track cancelled Delivery Notes: All cancelled orders in the system will be updated to a new file and kept for reference purposes until the user decides to remove them.

• Automatically generate route Delivery Notes: Delivery Route Module. Users may now enter the delivery route information per route, truck, ship to and indicate the gases and products usually sold to a specific customer. Once set up the user may print on a daily basis for the different routes delivery notes that may be given to the drivers.

• Duplex Printing: Cut down the size of
  your reports in half by printing on both
  sides of the page. If you have a laser
  printer and a duplexing module, you can
  now print on both sides of the page by
  selecting the Duplex Printing option
  at the time of printing the report.

• Color Laser Forms: Now the Laser Forms Module allows you to print all your forms (i.e.: Gas/Product Invoice, Cylinder Rental Invoice, Yearly Lease Invoice or Customer Statement) with vibrant color. You can also select the color for each form.
  

• Better Credit Control: The system will verify the customer's credit status not only in the counter sales and order/invoice entry but also after each journal update (AR Posting Update, Cash Receipts Update, Sales Journal Update, Counter Sales Update, Cylinder Rental/Lease Update and Machine Rental Update)
  The updates will verify the accounts of every customer in the system and then set them on Credit Hold if they are over their Credit Limit or over the number of Aging days specified.

• New Sales Analysis Report: A quick one-page report with the total gas sales amount with cost, profit margin and percent. The total hard goods sales amount with cost and profit amount and percent. The total liquid cylinders and total other cylinders a company has with charged cylinders on rent, the rental income, the average monthly rental rate and the average monthly rental rate charged. The report will also print the total cylinders on lease, the total
  leased months, the total lease income, the average monthly lease rate and the average annual lease rate. The report will further detail the extra charges for the period, and then the total monthly sales.

• Bar Code Labels: The Toshiba TEC label printer will print labels & bar codes extremely fast. Labels can be printed automatically from the Order Entry or a stand-alone program.
  

• Better Cylinder Control: Now you can know the amount a customer is being charged for each cylinder as well as the last delivery date of the cylinder being charged. Now you can know if a customer is holding onto your cylinder assets. Getting an empty cylinder back means you can turn over a full cylinder faster.
  

• Accounts Payable Checks (Cash Disbursement):
  The Cash Disbursement program will allow you to pay the oldest invoices, pay or partially pay specific invoices, pay invoices to a specific due date. You may also go back and modify or void a check. The system will keep track of all voided checks. Recurring invoices can be set up for automatic payments. Therefore, your rent check can be set up to automatically generate each month.
  

• Accounts Payable History:
  Look up Supplier's paid invoices by supplier number, invoice number, preprinted control number or computer generated check number.
  

• Selling Prices based on Markup from Cost:
  A specific customer can have selling prices for all products based on a markup percent from cost. This selling price will always use the last Average or Standard Cost automatically calculated to calculate the Selling Price. The percentage of markup can be indicated per customer.

• Print Delivery Slip by Warehouse Location. This will allow you to pick the goods faster since the goods in Aisle 1 are printed before Aisle 2.

• The Serialized Inventory Module for products has been made more efficient. The system will automatically update the Serialized Products which have warranties to the Warranty Control Module for Warranty tracking. Therefore, when a customer brings back a Welding Machine or Drill for repair, you can find the product by Serial Number and know if the warranty is still in effect or expired, etc.

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• Cash Drawer: Cash Drawer is integrated with the Counter Sales module to only open the drawer when a cash sale is made. For other sales the counter person can insert the credit card slip or check without opening the drawer. This limits the access to the Cash Drawer.
  
  
• Gas Filling: Filling cylinders with Trendex couldn't be simpler. You can now track the number of filled cylinders and track the volume of gas in your bulk tank. Along with this, Gastrend automatically calculates the cost of filling each cylinder (including gas and labour cost).
  
  
• Purchasing & Selling Units of Measure can be different: Now the system will allow you to purchase a product in one unit of measure (ie: Box of 100) and sell it in a different unit of measure (ie: Each). The cost will be automatically calculated by the system.
  
  
• Kitrend Stock Work Order: You can now create a Work Order for items produced for stock. Therefore, if you are filling gasses, the Stock Work Order can be used to deplete your Bulk Gases and add the filled cylinder to your inventory.
  
  
• Create PDF Reports: Create any report from the Gastrend software in a PDF format for viewing with Adobe Acrobat Reader or for emailing purposes
  
  
• Fax & Email all Forms: Now you can fax or email your Gas/Product Invoices, Cylinder Rental Invoices, Lease Invoices, Statements, Purchase Orders and Quotations directly from the server. The savings in stamps and manpower is enormous not to mention that you get your invoices to your customer faster and get paid sooner.
  
  
• Detailed General Ledger Inquiry: You can now view on the screen or print all the transactions that went through for a given General Ledger Account. This can save a tremendous amount of time when your auditors ask to see the details of a specific G/L.

• Inventory Report Sorted by Turns: This option will let you know the products that turn the most and the ones that do not. This allows you to act on your dead stock.

• Accounts Payable Trial Balance for Specific Days: The Accounts Payable Trial Balance will now print only the invoices over a specific number of days. Therefore, you can only see the invoices that are payable over 45 days. The number of days is selected by the user at time of printing the report.
  
  
• Commission Paid on Paid Invoices: You can now control when commissions will be paid to the salesrep. The commission report will let you know if the customer has paid the invoice and the commission to the salesrep can be paid only after the customer pays you. You can also control commission based on a minimum profit. Therefore, if the salesrep sells below the minimum profit percent, he does not get paid any commission.
  
  
• Mobile Physical Inventory: A hand held computer can be used to take physical inventory using bar codes. This data can then be transferred to the server and inventory quantities can be adjusted.

• Invoices & Delivery Notes with Class & UN Number: Our forms print the Class and UN Number on the front of the form for each gas code to conform to new DOT specifications.

• Automatically generate Purchase Orders for Gases: The system will select the gases to be ordered based on Minimum Quantities you have indicated. This selection will show you the last supplier you purchased this gas from and their cost to you. Once selected, a Purchase Order will be automatically generated for the selected supplier.

• Historical GL Journals: The user may now reprint a journal from history, whether it is a sales journal or a cash receipts journal or an Accounts Payable journal. The user may indicate the specific journal entry number they wish to reprint and the system will reprint the original journal. The user may also enter a specific General Ledger number and the system will print the invoice numbers or check numbers and customer or supplier that the General Ledger has affected.

• Fax Gas/Product Invoices, Rental Invoices, Lease Invoices, Statements, Purchase Orders and Quotations directly from system: Customers can now purchase VSIFAXTM a UNIX based fax software package that will allow you to fax purchase orders, quotes, statements, invoices and orders directly from the TRENDEX software. This software also allows the user to view a log of the fax transmissions on a PC. Trendex has recently modified this module to allow users to fax invoices, statements, etc as a batch and not individually. At the time of the invoice print, the system will verify the customers and if coded to fax the invoices, the system will fax one copy and print another copy for your records. The option can only be used if the forms are printed through Unform, the laser forms option.

• You may now post Cash Receipts payments automatically to the oldest invoice, multiple customer accounts as well as go back and take corrections to your Cash Receipts.
  

• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable in different currencies can be kept in separate General Ledger Accounts. Therefore, you know at any given time what your U.S. Dollar accounts receivable/payable versus your Pesos accounts receivable/ payable are.
  
  
• A new program has been developed to facilitate the entry of Bar Codes for Products.
  
  
• You can now track the number of sales calls your salesrep made as well as indicate potential monthly sales per customer. Reports will indicate if the potential sales per customer is being met for this year as well as comparisons with last year.
  
  
• A new report will give you the sales by gases ranked by dollars or volume.
  
  
• Return of Merchandise can be done in the Counter Sales Module. Therefore, the client can return one item and buy a replacement item on the same invoice at the counter.
  
  
• The user can call up an old quotation in the Quotation Module and create a new quote for the same customer or another customer automatically.
  
  
• For Laser Form users, the Delivery Note, Invoice or Counter Sale Invoice will use the complete form for products, if there are only products on the order, or use the complete form for gases, if there are only gases on the order. This eliminates the wastage of a second page on a long order.

• Gastrend is now trilingual (English, French, Spanish)
  
  
• Accounts Receivable Multi-Currency capability allows creating invoice in customer's currency and updating your accounting in your currency. Therefore, invoice can be generated in Pesos, Lira, etc.
  
  
• Hazmat charge on Cylinder
  Rental Invoice.
  
  
• Printed forms on blank paper with your company Logo & address and now the Customer's Part Number or your Part Number in the form of a Bar Code.
  
  
• Selling price can be updated automatically if your costs have changed at time of Purchase Order entry or Reception based on preset profit margins. Goods can be received using Bar Codes. Cash Sales can be done using a Bar Code Reader. Physical Inventory can be taken with a Bar Code Reader. System can read the supplier's preprinted bar code or your bar code printed on your printer. Your customer can receive goods into his inventory by scanning Bar Codes.
  
  
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