Comments on: CCRQBOM Updates

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:58:08 +0000

Adriane: I will contact you directly to discuss the details of your request. Please note that with the trial version that you have downloaded you have 30 days to test it, so you can use that trial period before making your purchase.

The upcoming release of the program (now set for April, sorry for the delays) will let you access custom fields from the item list in the reports. That might not be what you are looking for – Intuit doesn’t make provisions for custom fields in the BOM itself (such as you might need for a “ref designator” if I understand what you are looking for.

By: Adriane

Adriane — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:48:49 +0000

I read the response in another post, I downloaded your trial software, and based on your response I see that I need the latest version to acomplish what I need. To recap what I need is: Custom fields in a BOM, Vendor Part Number and a Ref Designator. I do not see that when I try to Edit my BOM, please point me in the right direction as far as purchasing your software and also after purchasing can I try the software out for 30 Days to make sure it is exactly what I need. Thanks so much for your help! Also so far I think your software is great and a much needed addition to Quickbooks Manufacturing.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:13:26 +0000

Brett, thank you.

At this time we don’t have a firm plan on adding reference designators. Maybe someday.

The problem is that there isn’t a way to store that kind of information in QuickBooks itself. You know that it doesn’t support that feature, and they don’t provide a flexible mechanism to let us add fields. We would have to store this information outside of QuickBooks, and that isn’t a part of our current design goals. As it stands, the program works entirely with data inside of QuickBooks.

We have been approached by another company that was asking for this feature, and we had a proposal to them as a “custom add-on”, which we sometimes to for customers. The client rejected this because the price was too high for them (they are having us do some other work, though). If you are interested, we could split the cost between your company and theirs – contact me directly at charlie@ccrsoftware.com if you would like to pursue this.

By: Brett Davis

Brett Davis — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:41:36 +0000

Charlie, I must say I am impressed with you work that you have been doing on this product. I am starting to use it in conjunction with my QB Mfg. DTM is a very small electronics circuit board assembly house. One of the areas of frustration for us is of course BOMs. Many of the electronic components that I use are used on multiple assemblies, but any given component will have a different reference designator depending on the assembly. Here is an example:
Widget A has part RES0008, qty 3 at refdes R15,R16,R20. Widget B has part RES0008, qty 2 at refdes R28,R29. Will you be adding a feature to allow these type of fields to be associated to a BOM? And, will it allow an import from an excel sheet or some other form?

I will be purchasing the CCRQBOM here in the near future.

Regards,
Brett Davis
DTM-LLC

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:53:21 +0000

The general release won’t be available until April or May, more or less. If you send an email to sales@ccrsoftware.com asking to be a “beta test” site, and you are a registered user, you might be able to get a pre-release

By: George

George — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:30:50 +0000

Sounds good – I use your product every day and these features will help. When can we get a copy?