FAQs

Crsytal reports is a powerful tool.  However, it has its limitations and it requires expertise and a solid understanding of the source of the data.  For example, if you are creating reports that gather data from your acocunting software, you need to know what the tables are, what is in each field, and you must know how it all works together in your accounting program in order to design reports that are accurate and reliable.

 

Is that always possible?  No. 

 

How about a Contribution Margin report that gathers sales, demo costs, off-invoice allowances, freight inbound and outbound, commissions, cost-of-goods and shows each one of those metrics in a columnar format in a grid and breaks down each one as a % of Gross, % of Net, $ per Pound, % per Pound, and displays the Contribution Margin for each metric and calculates the net Contribution Margin in total for any given date range you want?  That's going to require custom programming.  And.... it requires someone who has the ability to look at the underlying data and determine what's what so they can extract the data and provide RELIABLE reports.  We can do that.