Realtrac, the real time job shop management software, has upgraded its accounting integration for the latest version of the most popular accounting program, QuickBooks® 2006. Realtrac has continued to be compatible with QuickBooks for the past eight years.

Posting of Realtrac invoices updates customer balances and general ledger accounts, while posted purchase orders allow for easy entry and payment of vendor charges. Realtrac employee time summary reports simplify the preparation of payroll checks. These are a few of the financial management tools available to the typical job shop through Realtrac software.

Realtrac’s materials management system simplifies the preparation and tracking of material and outside service purchase orders. A complete inventory control system for raw material, finished and semi-finished parts, customer supplied material and tooling has been designed especially for use by job shops.

Realtrac’s interactive bar code data collection system continuously updates in real-time job schedules, machine loads and job costs as activity occurs on the shop floor. As a result, the system offers instant job costing to provide up to the minute display and reporting of labor, material and other job costs, with detailed analysis available by operation, employee and machine. A multi-task time accounting feature is available to specified employees to divide their work time among several tasks being performed simultaneously. Nearly every system installed worldwide since 1985 has employed Realtrac’s unique interactive shop floor data collection system.

Forecasting of sales income is aided by a database of scheduled shipments, and an invoice history record offers a tool for analyzing past sales. A Microsoft Access™ database of historical job information is available for analyzing the profitability of jobs, machines and employees.

Realtrac users may choose among several router designs for customizing printed shop floor routers, placement of bar codes and the amount of detail desired. Complete operation standards and procedures can be included for meeting ISO and other quality control requirements. Realtrac’s long established multimedia capability allows digital pictures, scanned images, CAD drawings and sound tracks to be attached to the electronic version of the router and the job order.