Exo Business White Papers
Methods for calculating line totals, discounts and GST
This white paper serves as a guide detailing the alignment of Job Costing calculations with Debtor Invoicing within MYOB Exo Business without making any changes to the latter.
2019.4.1 Database Upgrade
This white paper explains how to upgrade the Exo Business database to implement Unicode support in version 2019.4.1 of the application.
Secure Third-Party Logins for Developers
This white paper contains sample Pascal code that you can integrate into third-party applications to take advantage of an enhancement made to the login parameter for launching Exo applications in Exo Business 2019.4.1.
Australian BAS Return
This white paper gives an overview of the Australian BAS Return functions in Exo Business, including setup and operation.
BOMs and Stock Code Enhancements
This white paper details changes introduced in version 6.18x to rationalise and improve consistency in stock code reporting.
Custom Filters
This white paper details the customised filtering mechanism that can be used to filter the records displayed in MYOB Exo Business grids.
Exo Business Analytics
This white paper details the Exo Business Analytics module, which presents a customisable overview of the organization’s business status.
Exo Business DCE
This white paper discusses the Exo Business Dynamic Commerce Engine (DCE), which is the middleware server application used in a multi-tier Exo Business deployment.
Exo Email Service
This white paper contains information on how to install, set up and use the Exo Email Service, which can be used to automate the sending of emails from the Exo Business system.
Exo Payroll Integration with Exo Business
This white paper describes how to set up and run integration between the Exo Business and Exo Payroll products.
Geolocation Features
This white paper discusses the geolocation features introduced in Exo Business 8.8, which allow you to retrieve geolocation details (latitude and longitude) for Debtors, Creditors, Non Accounts and Contacts, based on their delivery addresses.
GL Movements and Period Handling
This white paper outlines changes that were made to period handling in version 6.18x to assist in retained earnings calculations, and also introduces the GL Movements table to provide an alternative reporting method for GL transactions.
GST Rounding Issues
This white paper discusses cases where the Gross amount displayed on the MYOB Exo Business GST Return does not match the Gross amount on invoices. These discrepancies are caused by rounding; however, even though different amounts appear in different places, the amounts are correct in the context they appear in.
M-Powered Services
This white paper describes how to set up and use M-Powered services for invoices and payments. (These features are available in Australia only.)
One-Off Stock Items
This white paper details the One-Off Stock Items feature, which enables you to quickly create a stock item for a unique, one-off purchase or sale of stock.
Payment Gateways
This white paper contains information on Payment Gateways, which are designed for live credit card processing in a "card absent" environment such as when accepting orders by phone, fax, or email.
Period Handling and Transaction Ageing
This white paper describes how Exo Business stores transaction dates. Exo Business is not a purely date based system, and does not rely on dates for critical procedures such as transaction ageing and posting between ledgers, nor are dates used by any of the standard reports within Exo Business to calculate control totals.
Pricing and Discounting
This white paper describes the options available in Exo Business for automatically determining appropriate prices to be offered to customers for goods, dependent on a number of pre-set pricing rules.
Quick Insert
This white paper provides information on the Quick Insert functionality, which facilitates data imports and enables rapid updates of multiple records in a grid format, without the use of third-party database explorer tools.
Sales Analysis Matrix
This white paper describes the Exo Business Sales Analysis Matrix module, a powerful sales analysis tool that allows you to quickly create over 700 combinations of sales reports on the fly, with no technical report-writing skills required.
Search Templates
This white paper contains information on setting up and using search templates, which are pre-defined SQL statements that can be applied to searches in the Exo Business system.
Shortcut Icon Library
This document lists the icons that can be specified for menu procedures that appear in the shortcut menu at the top of the main windows of Exo Business modules.
Shortcut Keys
This white paper contains a list of shortcut key combinations that can be used in Exo Business.
Social Media in MYOB Exo Business
This white paper describes how the Exo Business system integrates with the various social media networks, how to set up the system for social media integration, and how to diagnose and remedy any errors that may appear.
Stock Integration
This paper provides an overview of the options available to a user for getting stock into the General Ledger: Perpetual Inventory and Periodic Inventory.
Stock Serial Numbers
This white paper gives a technical overview of key serial number processes in Exo Business.
Stock Take
This white paper describes how to run the Stock Take function in Exo Business.
Stock Valuation
This white paper provides an overview of the options available for obtaining a stock valuation, and discusses which methods are compatible with perpetual inventory systems and the General Ledger.
Style Size Colour
This white paper contains information on the Style Size Colour feature, which enables you to create and process stock in variations of colour and size.
Subscriptions
This white paper describes the Subscription program, which is used to charge an annual maintenance or subscriptions fee to customers.
Taxation Features
This white paper contains information on the taxation features in Exo Business, including setting up and reporting on taxation.
Transitioning to the 8.7 Job Costing Work in Progress Methodology
This white paper applies to users of Exo Job Costing who are upgrading from a version prior to Exo Business 8.7 to 8.7 or later. It discusses the manual steps that will need to be performed in order to prepare to process transactions using the new features and methods introduced in 8.7.