Posts that describe how to use Beacon’s features; or any handy tips and tricks
On the footer of the website, under Quick Links, we have now placed a link to the User Guide for visitors/users to gain easy access to this pdf document. When the link is clicked it takes you to a dedicated page where you will find a link button labelled “Beacon User Guide”.
February will bring significant improvements to the way Beacon handles ledgers, with renamed fields, improved sorting and better handling of credit batches.
Member lists are at the heart of the Beacon system, and there are several features and tools available to users to make it easy to select some, all or none of the members on a given list – so you don’t need to tick them off one by one On all lists, you can click […]
Following my last notes in the Beacon Newsletter on using the Beacon Finance Package, where I presented a case for using a membership ledger in order to keep the current account uncluttered. Another area of the Finance Package which gets a bad press is its lack of ability to deal with accruals. In my discussions […]
This month’s tip for using Beacon is about spellling. As you may know, the Beacon software does not currently include a spellchecker. However, many web browsers now include a facility for checking spelling within the browser itself. One example is Google Chrome, which has a spellchecker that is usually enabled by default. If you’d like […]