Every new customer, vendor, employee, or item you create in Dynamics GP needs an ID. Next Numeric Collection generates the next one for you, automatically, every time.
Quick: what’s the next customer ID in your Dynamics GP system? Not the one you think it is, the actual next one in the sequence, with no gaps and no duplicates. Do you know, or did you have to stop and check?
We admit, that was a trick question. Everyone has to stop and check, because no one knows the next number. But since you create all those IDs manually in GP, that means you spend a lot of your day “stopping and checking.”
Now, you can take that time back.
What Manual ID Entry Costs You
Look, let’s be honest here. It’s a bit silly that GP requires everyone to manually enter all those IDs by hand, and that those IDs are so flexible. Sure, your unique naming convention helps you search records more easily, but the task of creating records is monotonous (which means it leads to errors). The smallest typo can create an error that leaves someone trying to piece together records months down the line, and it makes those records harder to search. That’s time lost.
Missing numbers aren’t great either because, even though you can ignore them, they still leave you with a nagging feeling that something is wrong. That low-level unease can make it hard to focus, which takes its own toll on productivity.
Finally, there’s the overhead of creating policies, training staff on your ID conventions, and correcting the errors that inevitably slip through. None of that stuff moves your business forward; it’s all just upkeep. And that’s labor hours lost, usually by staff who could be doing much higher-value work.
None of this is a crisis, of course. It’s just a slow drip of time and attention. But, you know, a stalactite is just a slow drip too.
How Next Numeric Collection Helps
Next Numeric Collection by EthoTech saves that time. It automatically generates the next number needed for your master record types, and it fills in the holes in your alpha-numeric sequence instead of leaving them for someone to track down later.
Specifically, Next Numeric Collection automatically creates and maintains accurate IDs for:
- Customers
- Employees
- Fixed Assets
- Inventory Items
- Project Accounting Contracts
- Projects
- Prospects
- Salespeople
- Vendors
- Key2Act Job Numbers
It also automatically assigns Batch IDs when you create transaction batches in the Receivables, Sales, and Purchasing modules, and it works seamlessly with the alternate Customer and Vendor Maintenance windows in the Project Accounting Series and Key2Act Job Cost.
In other words: whatever record you’re creating, wherever you’re creating it in GP, Next Numeric Collection has already figured out what number comes next.
Small Investment, Immediate Payoff
Next Numeric Collection is a one-time purchase of $2,000, plus a $400 annual subscription. That’s a modest price for permanently retiring a task that otherwise costs you a little bit of time and a little bit of risk, every single day, forever.
It’s one of EthoTech’s productivity solutions, which are built specifically to work inside Dynamics GP. Like our other productivity solutions, we can set it up for you in one hour, which means if you call us today about it, you could stop hand-entering those IDs later today.
Ready to Stop Assigning IDs by Hand?
If your team is still manually working out the next customer, vendor, or item ID, that’s time you’re not getting back. You deserve better.
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