2BizBox® Self Implementation Guide

v3.0.1

2BizBox® ERP

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Table of Contents

Database Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 1

Company Setup Wizard ................................................................................................................................. 2

Setup Company Addresses ................................................................................................................. 3

Setup Company Currency ................................................................................................................... 3

Setup Time Zero ..................................................................................................................................... 4

Setup Employee ...................................................................................................................................... 4

Setup Chart of Accounts ...................................................................................................................... 5

Set Account Parameters ...................................................................................................................... 5

Setup Account Categories ................................................................................................................... 6

Setup Starting Balance ......................................................................................................................... 7

Setup Password ...................................................................................................................................... 7

Complete Wizard .................................................................................................................................... 8

More settings ........................................................................................................................................... 8

More Company Configuration .................................................................................................................... 9

Initialize Data ................................................................................................................................................. 10

Data Review .................................................................................................................................................... 11

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This guide will help you setup 2BizBox for your company without outside help. 2BizBox

software downloaded from this website has been preconfigured and is ready to run in a real

business. As you have noticed, two companies are available on the login screen, default and

test. The test company is used to test, practice and evaluate. Default company is for real

implementation. Test Company has been pre-configured and you can login the test company

and use it without extra configuration. Default company as the official database, should be

configured more strictly before used. To simplify the configuration process, 2BizBox will run

a setup wizard program when you first time login default company. The setup wizard

provides a step-by-step construction to guide you how to complete the essential settings for

your company. Once you complete the wizard, all configurations will be saved into the

database. Login again, you will able to login the system directly and configure more settings,

or start to use.

DATABASE CONFIGURATION

By default, 2BizBox uses an embedded MySQL server as the database server. The easiest

way to run 2BizBox is just to keep the default database configuration. However we suggest

you change the default root user’s password of MySQL database to keep it more secure, if

you are ready to implement 2BizBox. You can also change the configuration to use different

database server and database user.

Change Database User & Password

An embedded MySQL database has already been installed with 2BizBox server. By

default, 2BizBox uses user of “root” to connect to MySQL. The default password is root.

You can use a different database user and password by following steps:

Run embedded MySQL database. To do this, execute

<install-path>/server/bin/run_database.bat. A command prompt window

will display and MySQL is running at port 3307. Closing this window will stop

MySQL server.

Change root user’s password. Go to <install-path>/server/db/bin, execute

mysqladmin -u root password ‘new_password’. Replace new_password with

your new password. Also you can go into mysql database, and execute

“update user set password=password(‘new_password’) where user=’root’”

command to update root user’s password.

Login MySQL database. Go to <install-path>/server/db/bin, execute mysql

-uroot -p -P 3307 and input root user’s password in the coming line.

Create new MySQL user. See here to learn now to create new MySQL users:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/adding-users.html. Make sure the

new created user has full privileges for all databases starting with bb2_*.

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Change configuration file. Open file

<install-path>/server/jboss/server/default/deploy/mysql-ds.xml. Find

<user-name> and <password> tags, replace value to the new user name and

password.

Change Database Server

You can use the embedded MySQL database or change to another one running on the

same server or another server. To use other MySQL database, you need to follow these

steps:

Create databases on your MySQL server with sql script at

<install-path>/server/db/database.sql.

Update file server/jboss/server/default/deploy/mysql-ds.xml. Find all

<connection-url> tags; replace localhost and 3307 to your MySQL server IP

address and port. By default MySQL runs on port 3306.

Find all <user-name> and <password> tags, set the user names and passwords

to visit the new MySQL server.

Change startup file. The embedded MySQL server does not need to run

anymore because another MySQL server will be used and running. Open

file <install-path>/server/run.bat, remove the second line start db.bat. Make

sure the MySQL server is running before starting 2BizBox server.

COMPANY SETUP WIZARD

By default, there are two companies in 2BizBox – test and default. Each company has own

data and database. The test company is used to test, practice how to use 2BizBox, the

default one is for official usage for your company. Like test company, default company also

has been well configured but has no sample data. Before turning on the default company for

real use, you have to setup essential configuration according to your business. This can be

done by running a company setup wizard program when you login the default company at

the first time. With this wizard, setting up the essential configuration for your new company

will be easy.

Wizard configuration needs to select “default” company in login screen. If the default

company has not been initialized, the wizard program will appear after user login. This

wizard guides you how to configure the new company step by step. Complete all inputs in

the wizard and check all the settings before you finish. You can save and exit the wizard

program in any step. All changes will be saved into default company database. When login

the default company later, you will back to the wizard again.

When you finish the wizard, click “Complete” button to commit the configuration. Re-login

the default company and you will enter into 2BizBox main screen directly.

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Check following steps to learn how to complete company setup wizard.

SETUP COMPANY ADDRESSES

First step is to setup address information for your company. 2BizBox Address Box manages

all addresses of customers, vendors, and manufacturers. Meanwhile, your company itself

also has address and will be identified as an address book entry. 2BizBox needs one primary

address to identify your company. You can setup more secondary addresses for other usage,

for instance, billing address, shipping address, and printing address. If the secondary address

is not set separately, the primary address will be used for it.

A recommended format of address ID is like “ABC001″ – three letters and three numbers.

“SER001″, “WPT500″ are all good address IDs. If you want to set secondary addresses, put

an extra letter in the tail is recommended. For example, “SER001A” is billing address ID,

SER001B is shipping address ID, etc. Well-formatted address ID will be very helpful to make

the business data more understandable.

For any address entry, ID and name cannot be empty. ID of these addresses should not be

duplicated. Inputting all fields of the address is highly recommended.

Check and fix any possible problems listed on the screen at the bottom, click “Next “button

to next step.

SETUP COMPANY CURRENCY

`2BizBox supports multi-currencies. In this step, you need to give the local currency of your

company. Input currency name and symbol, for example, USD and $.

More currencies can be added when you finish this wizard and get into 2BizBox. All other

currencies will be considered non-local currencies.

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The default local currency is US dollar, name is USD and symbol is $.

SETUP TIME ZERO

2BizBox gives a user-friendly program to set the Time Zone. Select a Time Zone from the

drop down list, and then make a choice to check “Display Time Zone” box which will display

Time Zone on all related reports with time. With Time Zone, the format is like this:

“2011-01-05 10:43:10 GMT-06:00”. Otherwise, it shows time like this: “2011-01-05

10:43:10″.

SETUP EMPLOYEE

This is the first employee of 2BizBox and it will be linked to admin which has all permissions

of 2BizBox. More employees of your company can be added after setting up wizard and

entering into 2BizBox HR Module.

For any Employee entry, ID and name cannot be empty. Employee ID should not be

duplicated. Inputting all fields of the Employee is highly recommended.

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SETUP CHART OF ACCOUNTS

2BizBox comes with a template of chart of accounts. These accounts have been setup in this

step. Check these accounts and directly use them if these accounts meet your company

needs. You can add, modify or delete accounts as your needs. Also you can edit Account

number by selecting one row and clicking “Edit ACCT#” button. However, the change may

affect account parameters; you need to double check all account parameters in next step.

2BizBox supports multi level chart of accounts. When using sub-chart, remember to set

parent account number as the prefix of the sub-chart account number. For example, parent

account number is 6250, sub-chart account numbers would be looked like 6250010,

6250020, 6250030, etc.

SET ACCOUNT PARAMETERS

You need to setup fiscal year and month periods firstly which are needed before the

accounting module can be used. The fiscal year is the accounting period and normally it

spreads over 12 months. By default, 2BizBox creates fiscal year with 12 months for current

and next year according to calendar year. You can add new fiscal years and setup its month

periods. You can name the fiscal year format as “FY2010″.

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For 2BizBox v3.0.0, fiscal year FY2010 and FY2011 have been created there.

Secondly, more detailed settings are needed for accounting module. In this step, you need

to specify many account numbers and let 2BizBox know how and where to keep accounts on

the daily business activities. In this step, check each sub steps on the list, and configure the

values of each sub step carefully. By default 2BizBox has configured all parameters by using

default chart of accounts. So you need to check these parameters if you change the chart of

accounts in previous step.

SETUP ACCOUNT CATEGORIES

Account Categories is a template used to generate Balance Sheet. 2BizBox gives a standard

sample template. Check these categories and find whether it is meet your company’s need.

You can add, edit, and delete categories.

2BizBox supports multi level categories and the total amount of parent category equals all

amounts of its children categories. And it will show total amount of each parent categories

in balance sheet report automatically.

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In this step, you can set chart of account for each category in editing category screen, such

as the amount of CASH ON HAND category coming from the balance”1010 Cash on hand”.

2BizBox has already configured all of them and you should check once you change the chart

of accounts.

SETUP STARTING BALANCE

After the chart of accounts has been established, the accounts balances must be initialized

by entering dollar amounts as the starting balances.

In this step, all accounts are listed with an editable cell with red color line where you can

input the starting balance amount. The balance field locating at debit or credit column

depends on the D/C direction. Select start month period on the top right corner. The start

balances will be initialized to that period with a transaction automatically generated by this

wizard. Debit and credit totals must equal and match the totals from your company

accounting report.

SETUP PASSWORD

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This step is used to setup password for user ‘admin’. Password is very important for user.

More complex and periodical password changing are encouraged. The length of password

must be bigger than 6.

COMPLETE WIZARD

It is almost finished. Check each step and fix all errors. Warnings will not stop you to go

further but always try to fix all of them. “Complete” button should appear in this step.

Remember after clicking the “Complete” button, this setup wizard will never show up again.

Many settings can be changed again later inside 2BizBox, but the change may affect existed

business data. So the inside wizard is the best place to double check and configure all

settings for your 2BizBox.

If you are ready to go to main screen, click “Complete” button to commit all changes to

2BizBox server. Wizard program will exist and you will back to login screen. Input the new

password you specified in wizard to login 2BizBox. If 2BizBox main screen shows up, 2BizBox

has been configured and ready to use.

MORE SETTINGS

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Wizard program only covers most important settings for the company which should be finely

configured before the company startup. After wizard has been completed, more

configurations can be done in 2BizBox Control Panel module. See following section to check

all further settings for your company.

MORE COMPANY CONFIGURATION After the wizard, all major configurations have been done. Complete following steps to

configure more settings for 2BizBox. Or ignore these steps for now and configure the

settings later when you use them.

Engineering Settings

Minimum part number digits. Default value is 3. This property specifies the

minimum length for the part number in 2BizBox. This is used to control the part

number length for your company. If it is set to 3, then “AB” will not be a legal part

number because it is too short but AB1 or 1AB would work.

Maximum part number length default number is 20. This property specifies the

maximum length for the part number in 2BizBox.

Mark to “engineering new part” for newly created part. Default value is “YES”. The

newly added part will be marked as “engineering use only” if it is set to “YES”.

Default Shipping weight Unit of Measure (UOM). This is the default value for part

shipping weight UOM. If you set “KG” for this parameter, the system will use this as

the newly created part’s shipping weight UOM when a new part is created in

2BizBox.

Make or buy for new created part. Default value is “BUY”.

Work Order Settings

Initial cost: This is a cost number used to control work order cost. Only when

the Work Order cost is higher than this cost, it will be controlled by Work Order

cost control process. Input 0 to make all parts under cost control.

Over percent: After setup of the “Initial cost” above, you can also setup the work

order over a certain cost percentage limit. For example, 20% means if a part

finished in a work order is 130% of its average cost, the work order will be

reviewed and processed by work order cost control process.

Control By: The cost method used in 2BizBox. Currently 2BizBox supports Average

Cost and Standard Cost. Select the one your company will use.

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INITIALIZE DATA When the setup of the configuration of 2BizBox is completed, you can enter business data to

get your company up and running. Follow these steps to input all needed data in 2BizBox:

Enter all of the customers and vendors in Address Box. You can also skip this step and

enter the customers or vendors only when you need it, such as creating new sales order

or purchase order. (It is recommended that the first 3 letters of a company name and 3

numbers such as 001 can be used for the ID of a company. For example Tomato

Company will have ID: TOM001. If Tomato Company has a different shipping address ID,

it would be TOM001A. The next company might be Potato Company and will have ID

POT001 and shipping address ID would be POT001A.)

Enter all parts including part number, part type, description, standard cost etc. You may

have many parts which are needed to be entered. To make it simple, you can skip this

step and create a part only when you need it, such as creating new sales order,

purchase order, work order, BOM etc. Make sure you already have part numbers for

each part and know how to number the parts. If you don’t have a preference for the

format of the part number, you can setup 2BizBox to let the system generate part

number for all newly created parts.

Enter all Bill of Materials (BOM). Make sure the BOM already exists in Part Master

module, and at least one part item is under the BOM list.

Rollup standard cost for all parts.

Enter all sales orders. Set up all sales orders that have not been approved or shipped.

Enter all purchase orders. Include all purchase orders that have not been approved or

received.

Setup Chart of Accounts in accounting module.

Create company needed accounts or sub-accounts in Chart of Accounts.

Create sub-accounts for every bank of your company.

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Setup the initial balance for each account except Accounts Receivable (AR) and

Accounts Payable (AP).

Enter all ARs

Enter all open ARs (Invoices in 2BizBox) that have not been received.

Run an open invoice or AR report to make sure the total amount of receivable is

correct.

Enter all APs

Enter all open AP that have not been paid.

Run an open AP report to make sure the total amount of payable is correct

Run an open AP or AP report to make sure the total amount of payable is correct.

Setup inventory by Physical Inventory report and enter all current inventory quantities

for all parts. Commit the Physical Inventory report and check that the inventory

quantities are correct.

Check the balance sheet report and make sure the balances of each account is correct.

Close last month’s period.

DATA REVIEW

After entering all data above, go to engineering, sales, purchase, warehouse,

accounting boxes and run reports to check that all numbers are correct. Run balance

sheet, profit & loss statement, closing statement and other accounting reports to make sure

all data is correctly entered.

Now 2BizBox is startup-ready.

About 2BizBox

Our goal is to offer worldwide manufacturing businesses free ERP software and to give

them the ability to setup ERP system with the lowest cost, and then to make the

businesses more successful.

Just download, install, setup and use 2BizBox software. All manufacturing businesses

can utilize computer applications to improve manufacturing management.

2BizBox is an independent, privately held company located in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Contact Information

For general information - info@2BizBox.com

Business Address: P.O. Box 8143, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA 76307