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What’s Inside
Almost Patio Time ........................ 1
3 agrē Tips: Prepayments ............. 2
agrē Tip: Product Unit Types ........ 3
2 agrē Tips: Data Exports. ............ 3
Tronia Employee Update .............. 4
Recipe Contest ............................. 5
Recipe: Grilled Bacon/Corn .......... 5
Still using the Edge? ..................... 6
Around the Corner ....................... 6
Now that the rush is over ... … it’s time to relax and hang out on the
patio, right? Almost!
In this issue, we highlight some agrē
reports to assist you in tidying up
prepayments, give you some tips
on submitting your EMR
reports, and discuss a couple of
cool new features that might save you
some time and get you out of the office a little earlier.
We’ll also introduce you to a couple of new employees who
have joined our team, as a couple of others have recently
stepped up the corporate ladder into new positions.
Trevor Kidney from Soil Tech wins a $25
gift card for sharing his real man’s recipe
for Grilled Bacon Wrapped Corn-on-the-
Cob, and we’re running a new recipe con-
test (with more prizes!) for the best
Hallowe’en recipe to be published in our
fall newsletter.
Hope you have a great summer!
July 2010
Newswire
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Now that spring is over, you may want to check what customers haven’t picked up yet. Run
the Work Order Activity report for Active Orders, Any Date, Prepaid only, sorted by either
Customer or Product, and Show Totals if you want to see them.
agrē Tip: Prepayments—What’s Left to Pick Up?
If the customer has already taken all the product he’s going to pick up, you can close the
Work Order(s) to free up the commitment. If you’ve used expiry dates, the Work Orders will
close on their own once that date has passed.
If the customer has prepayment dollars left over, you can transfer them to his regular account
using the Transfer Prepayment Funds button, and then you can Return their Funds if
you’d like to.
agrē Tip: Prepayments—What Do I Do with the Leftovers?
agrē Tip: Prepayment Dollars—What’s Left to Spend?
If you’d like to see how much
prepayment money customers
have left over, run the Customer
Balances report, for those “With
Prepayment Remaining”.
Optionally show total dollars
remaining by Location.
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When adding a unit type, it’s easy to get the
Conversion Factor backwards and end up with
100 drums in a jug instead of the other way
around.
agrē gives you a hint that makes it easy to get the
Conversion Factor right.
agrē NEW Feature: Product Unit Type Conversion
Submitted by a Saskatchewan retailer: to make sure that you’ve got the right manufacturer
tagged to the right product, use the Product List Export.
agrē Tip: AgCollect/EMR Reporting
If you don't see what you’re looking for on a report,
try a data export!
Exports often include data fields that aren’t on re-
ports. The Preview Data button is perfect to see
exactly what will be exported, and the Export to
Excel button makes it almost too easy to take your
data to where you can group it, sort it, and sum it up
however you need to.
agrē Feature: Data Exports
With a diploma in Computer Engineering Technology from NAIT,
Joe Williams has been a valued member of the Tronia agrē Team
since 2006. Joe has recently been promoted from Quality Assurance
to a new role in Development, while retaining responsibility for agrē
deployments.
Joe’s promotion left an empty spot in Quality Assurance, which was
filled by newcomer Amie Brown. Amie comes to us with 9 years’
experience in the grocery industry, with the last 6 years focused on
information technology, and she attends NAIT part time completing
her Administrator/Application Development certificate. Amie scruti-
nizes the code to find any imperfections that may have slipped past
our top-notch development team, and tests all the cool new agrē
features.
After 7 years as a CSC, Anita Marghella has become our new Busi-
ness Development Coordinator . She’s complementing her NAIT
diploma in Business Administration (Accounting) by attending the
University of Alberta part time to work on her Business Analysis
Citation. Anita’s primary focus will be acting as a liaison between our
Customers and our Development team.
Replacing Anita in the CSC chair is Dee Klassen, whose voice many
of you will recognize as she was our Office Administrator for the
past 18 months. If you need pre-printed forms, she’s still your girl!
With more than 20 years of customer service experience and 15 years
of accounting experience – you can count on Dee to
provide you with nothing but the highest level of
support.
Shana Dahl is our most recent draft pick. She acquired
an Accounting Diploma from Grant MacEwan College and became a
Certified Management Accountant while spending 14 years in the
service industry supporting oil and gas. Shana is our part time Office
Administrator and full time mom of two.
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Changes to the Tronia Team Roster
Rookies
Amie Brown
Quality Assurance
Shana Dahl
Administration
Veterans
Dee Klassen
From: Administration
To: CSC
Anita Marghella
From: CSC
To: Business Development
Joe Williams
From: Quality Assurance
To: Developer
Tronia Employee Update
There’s been some staffing changes at Tronia, and for a change
they weren’t the result of a new baby!
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Ingredients
10 ears corn, husked and cleaned
Cajun seasoning to taste
salt and black pepper to taste
Directions
1. Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat.
2. Sprinkle each ear of corn with Cajun seasoning, salt, and pepper, and wrap each ear with 2
slices of bacon, covering the ear as completely as possible. (A big ear might need 3 pieces of
bacon.) Wrap the ears in aluminum foil, twisting the ends tightly to seal.
3. Place the wrapped corn on the preheated grill, and grill on high heat until the corn is
hot, about 10 minutes per side. Turn the heat to Low, and grill the corn until the bacon is
cooked and the corn is tender, about 45 minutes.
1 pound package
sliced bacon
10 12x8-inch sheets
aluminum foil
Hallowe’en Recipe Contest
By popular demand (I still can’t believe it!) the recipes are back!
However, since I’m not much of a cook, I need some help. So … we’re having a recipe
contest!
Submit a recipe and a photo of your creation to enter our 2010 Best
Hallowe’en Recipe Contest and you could win a gift card (value $25)
of your choice.
No worries if there’s not a Tim Horton’s at the end of your
street. The prizes will be personalized for the shops and
restaurants located in the winners’ home towns.
Jealous of Trevor’s fame and fortune? You too can attain
the same glory! The winning entry will be published in
our next newsletter.
Entry deadline is September 10th.
Here’s your chance to show off your
culinary skills and win a cool prize!
Soil Tech Trevor’s Grilled Bacon-Wrapped Corn on the Cob
Around the Corner
Monday, August 2—Heritage Day
Tronia closed
Monday, September 6—Labour Day
Tronia closed
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#104-24 Inglewood Drive
St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
T8N 6K4
Toll Free: 1.888.987.6642
Local Phone: 780.459.4477
Fax: 780.459.6405
E-mail: [email protected]
Still Using the Edge?
While we will continue to support the Edge for a few years yet, our focus is on
the continued development and improvement of agrē. For more than three
years we have been successfully converting retailers to
the agrē solution and the results have been very posi-
tive. Customers tell us they appreciate the added flexi-
bility, and they especially like the improved Reports.
Most wonder why they waited so long to switch!
If you’re not yet scheduled for conversion, contact
your CSC to select a date that works for you. Ongoing
bookings are taking place so be sure to reserve your
spot soon as 2010 is almost full and we’re booking
conversions for 2011. Your CSC will also help you
begin preparing for agrē.