Alliant Route Accounting
Alliant Route Accounting is the textile rental industry's standard for billing, A/R, route management and production reporting. Textile Rental managers can maximize their revenue by accurately invoicing their customers for services provided. Rich revenue-generating features such as restocking fees, ancillary charges and insurance programs were designed with the assistance of industry operators. Unlike other products in the industry, Alliant Route Accounting is equally powerful whether your business is uniform rental, linen supply, dust control - or a combination of all three! Since Alliant's products are leased, the cost to implement our software is lower than that of other providers.
Stop printing statements on expensive forms and paying your employees to stuff and mail envelopes. Use Alliant Route Accounting to fax and/or email your statements for you!
"Alliant Systems designs powerful software to control our business. Additionally, their products are totally open to allow users the ability to query and extract data."
Features & Benefits
Invoicing
- Flexible Delivery Schedules - The system can accommodate almost any delivery frequency - daily, weekly, every other week, and quarterly.
- Powerful Pricing Techniques - Bill by soil count, by weight, flat rate and enforce customer minimum usage requirements.
- Adjustments - Invoices can be adjusted prior to or after delivery.
- Increase Revenue with Ancillary Charges - The system automatically prompts users to invoice for ancillary charges such as preparation fees, emblem charges and embroidery.
- Email & Fax - Send invoice and statement copies to customers without leaving your desk.
- Customer Service - Maintain a history of customer problems and resolutions.
- Special Invoices - Orders phoned in can be quickly entered and automatically appear on route settlement sheets and production reports.
- No need to exit system when creating invoices.
- No need to exit system when making backups.
A/R
- Payment History - Access customer invoice and payment history with the click of a mouse. When did a customer pay for a specific invoice and what was the check number?
- Record A/R Notes - Enter and track notes for A/R collection. Use the A/R call-back report as a checklist for follow up.
- Multiple Statement Options - Take advantage of multiple options for billing. Our plain paper statement form allows customers to receive via mail, fax or email.
Production
- Flexibility - Production reports can be printed to accommodate bulk loading or customer-specific loading.
- Mat Loading - Ability to generate mat-specific load lists.
- Auto-Print - Production reports can automatically be sent to a printer on the production floor as soon as invoices are generated.
- Holiday Flexibility - Reporting can accommodate holiday weeks where standard delivery schedules may change significantly.
- Forecasting - Print production reports prior to generating invoices. What would production be if invoices were generated now?
- Bar-Coded Soil Tickets - Bar-coded soil tickets interface with industry soil counting system and eliminate time spent entering soil ticket information.
Reporting
- Use Plain Paper - All reports designed to print on 8 ½ X 11 plain, bond paper.
- Auto Print - Key reports can be configured to automatically print to a specified printer each day
- Report Preview - All reports can be previewed on the screen.
- Powerful Sales Reporting - Users can customize sales reports to print for specified customer, routes and date ranges.
- Data Mining - All data is stored in an ODBC-compliant SQL Server database and can be queried utilizing products such as Crystal Reports.