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2007



Sunburst Software Solutions in the news

June 12-14, 2007 - QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions User Conference - San Diego, CA
We will be exhibiting at the Enterprise Solutions User Conference, if you plan on attending, please do stop by and say "hello"!

April 17, 2007
We realize that each of our customers has their own way in which they like to learn new things and we have done our best to accomodate each and everyone by offering:

Free Audio/Video training Free Certified Payroll Solution Audio/Video Training

  • Certified Payroll Solution - Download & Installation - Provides a complete overview of how to download the Certified Payroll Solution program electronically from the Web Service Center, save it to the hard drive of your computer and install the program.  12 minutes.
  • Certified Payroll Solution - Initial Setup Video - Walks you through entering your license information, granting CPS permission to access your QuickBooks file, and the initial setup of CPS and various certified payroll reporting preferences not handled by QuickBooks.  27 minutes.
  • Certified Payroll Solution - QuickBooks Setup - A review of your QuickBooks company file setup and the information that CPS "expects" to find there in order to accurately generate your certified payroll reports.  25 minutes.
  • Certified Payroll Solution - Running Certified Payroll Solution - An overview of running your first set of certified payroll reports and the creation of one-time linked records to hold additional information that QuickBooks has no means of tracking.  This video demonstrates the setup of a state which falls under the reporting requirements of the Federal WH-347, while providing a good general overview of how the program works for all other states.  30 minutes.

Free Audio/Video training Free Construction Application for Payment Solution Audio/Video Training


2006

December 27, 2006
City of Kansas City, MO Certified Payroll we have added the ability to generate the certified payroll forms that are required by the City of Kansas City, MO; along with the Daily Labor Report and Employee List.

Changes to Support Policy due to an ever growing customer base, we have had to modify our Support Policy.  These modifications focus on actual "Technical Support" versus QuickBooks training, allowing us to focus on software enhancements!  We offer numerous Free QuickBooks Training Resources on our website (see Articles & Training and QuickBooks for Contractors) and our manuals.  Those desiring additional one-in-one training may purchase it in 1, 2, and 3-hour blocks of time.

Slight Pricing Increase due to the ever rising costs of postage and gas, we have slightly increased the prices of the software on CD with printed manuals that are shipped either Priority or Express Mail.

October 2, 2006
Certified Payroll Solution Version 5.0.221 begins shipping today with new features/enhancements, forms, and QuickBooks 2007 compatibility.  New features include an "enhanced backup & restore module" that allows you to automatically create a "zipped" backup of your CPS data every time you close the program, calendars have been added to help you more accurately input dates, Michigan DOT and Oregon DOT EEOC Reports have been added.

Construction Application for Payment Solution Version 5.0.131 begins shipping today with new features/enhancements, forms and QuickBooks 2007 compatibility.  New features include an "enhanced backup & restore module" that allows you to automatically create a "zipped" backup of your CAPS data every time you close the program, calendars have been added to help you more accurately input dates, two new variations of the plain paper G-702/G-703 have been added - using Subcontractor/GC/Architect and Subcontractor/GC/Engineer, additionally an Invoice and Statement plain paper format have been included (see the CAPS Demo Page for full-sized samples).

September 19, 2006
Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. has achieved Gold Developer Status in the new Intuit Developer Network program for QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace listings.  Gold Developer Status provides QuickBooks users the assurance of quality, compatibility, and additional product/company reviews when considering solutions that integrate with QuickBooks.

In order to achieve QuickBooks Gold Developer status, our products had to pass a formal QuickBooks Technical Review Process by an independent third party certification laboratory.  The QuickBooks Technical Review Process ensures that applications meet a high quality standard of operations and compatibility that is expected by customers, while verifying appropriate integration, data exchange, security and error handling.   Additionally another independent third party performed a "customer satisfaction survey" with our existing customer base.  To learn more about the testing involved, visit the QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace Buyer's Guide.

May 15, 2006
Certified Payroll Solution (CPS) Version 5.0.207.  CPS Version 5.0.207 begins shipping today with new features, enhancements, and the new WH-347 Form (which was released by the Federal Government on 5/4/06).  In addition to the new WH-347, CPS now allows you to print mailing labels for your reports, set Employee and Job Defaults, prints "No Work" EEOC Reports, and numerous other enhancements.
If you are a current CPS user you may obtain this update free of charge as part of your Annual Maintenance, by starting CPS, select the Help Menu, choose About - note your current version number and click the Login to Support Area button.  Updates are listed on the lower left of this initial page along with detailed enhancement listings and download instructions.
New Flash Demonstrations will be available as they are finished - it takes roughly 4-6 hours to complete each one.

April 2006
Construction Application for Payment Solution (CAPS) Version 5.0.118.  CAPS Version 5.0.118 was released with new features and enhancements.  All Contract Documents have been digitally signed to provide less problems with various anti-virus software, the Schedule of Values in the Contract Document Manager has been enhanced to place the entries in a table, the alignment process of the original AIA forms has been enhanced - you can now adjust each individual field, round lines 4-8 on the G-702, add running totals and page totals to the bottom of the G-703, subtotals and/or page breaks may be added after line items of your choosing on the G-703, set company defaults for retainage and forms to print, plus other enhancements.
If you are a current CAPS user you may obtain this update free of charge as part of your Annual Maintenance, by starting CAPS, select the Help Menu, choose About - note your current version number and click the Login to Support Area button.  Updates are listed on the lower left of this initial page along with detailed enhancement listings and download instructions.
The Flash Demo will show you some of these new enhancements.

February 2006
Website redesign and update.  We hope you like our new look!  This site now contains well over 100 pages and there is still work left to be done.  Watch in the coming months for program enhancements, new Flash training demonstrations, QuickBooks resources, and more.


2005

November 9 - 11, 2005

The Sleeter Group QuickBooks Consultants Conference

Attended the Sleeter Group QuickBooks Consultants Seminar as Gold Sponsors.  The Sleeter Group provides QuickBooks resources for accountants, bookkeepers, QuickBooks consultants, CPA's, QuickBooks software developers and small business owners.  Read the article that was published in the June, 2005 issue of the Desktop Accountant, here.

October 31, 2005:
QuickBooks Pro/Premier 2006 & Enterprise 6.0 Compatibility available.  QuickBooks begins shipping on November 7, 2005.

October 15, 2005:
Compliant with the electronic filing requirements of LCPtracker

April 28, 2005:
Certified Payroll Solution includes two new state specific EEOC Reports for the City of Hartford, CT and the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Rhode Island version is currently being beta tested and is receiving favorable reviews, and a new Massachusetts certified payroll report for the Division of Capital Asset Management is also in beta status and being tested. Construction Application for Payment Solution now includes the ability to create a negative and/or credit application, perform negative adjustments to compensate for rounding errors that sometimes occur, and the Contract Document Manager can now complete AIA original G706, G706A, G-707 and G707A forms that you purchase and load into your printer.

February 7, 2005:
Initial launch of Wage Manager; as a stand alone payroll wage management tool designed to help payroll administrators when there is a company wide pay rate increase, there is a need to create new payroll items that will be used for multiple employees, or it becomes necessary to remove obsolete payroll items from multiple employee records.  A single complementary license for Wage Manager is included with each purchase of Certified Payroll Solution, and may be accessed from within the CPS program.
In addition to the release of Wage Manager Solution we have revamped the entire site and included additional technical documentation and resources to the On-Line Support Page.

January 25, 2005
Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. today announced that the final development process of their newest product Wage Manager Solution is in the final stages of Beta testing, with a proposed final release date of February 16, 2005.  Wage Manager Solution will share data with Intuit's QuickBooks® software products - including QuickBooks® Pro and Premier editions, as well as Enterprise Solutions; and is build using Microsoft® technology.  Read More . . .

January 14, 2005:
Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. became a member of the Microsoft® Empower program to become a Microsoft® Certified Partner.

January 7, 2005:
Certified Payroll Solution Enhancement Update
This enhancement covers a few of our most often asked for requests: during initial setup, clicking cancel at any time will save all entries made to that point, drop down lists are now displayed in alphabetical order, includes seconds in determining decimal percent of hours worked, work classification screen now has an alphabetic drop down list for displaying EEOC Codes.  Additionally an enhancement for those who are behind in issuing reports who have always used the "canned" Hourly Rate Payroll item - a new Work Classification option that defaults back the Work Classification assigned in the CPS Employee Linked Record, this will help automate the creation of delinquent reports but still cannot handle split work classifications.  Wage Manager was released in Beta to all existing CPS customers, and all initial feedback has been positive.


2004

December 20, 2004:
Initial Release of Contract Document Manager; which moves the creation of the contract documents from its dependency on the QuickBooks® Write Letters function directly to Construction Application for Payment Solution.  This move allows for greater functionality in the generation of contract documents as it can now pull data from both CAPS and QuickBooks®.

November 15, 2004:
Compatibility update for both CPS and CAPS to work with QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2005 and Enterprise Solution version 5.0 are available to existing users and is ready to ship to new customers.  Other minor functionality was also included with the compatibility updates.
Our annual reviews of the newest QuickBooks® products are available to download as a .pdf from the Support Page.
Beginning today, you can order the 2005 QuickBooks® products including Pro, Premier, Enterprise, Customer Manager, Turbo Tax, Quicken, etc. through the link on our Order Page at a 10-20% discount off Intuit Standard pricing.

September, 2004:
Certified Payroll Solution Recognized by the Sleeter Group as one of ten "Awesome Add-Ons" for QuickBooks.  Read more on our Press Releases page.

August, 2004:
Major Program Enhancements Released.
Certified Payroll Solution now has the ability to create an electronic Certified Payroll Report that is compatible with the Labor Compliance Management system developed by TRS Consultants, Inc., which is currently being used by several school districts in California as well as the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.  Enhanced Union/Bona fide plan reporting options; through the use of the new Design-Your-Own Report Benefit Reporting option - using this enhanced option you can create Union or plan specific benefit reports.  New EEOC reports added.
Construction Application for Payment now supports printing on both versions of the AIA G-702 (one version has bigger red lettering than the other), as well as support for printing on the AIA G-702 CMa version.  Because these are AIA original documents that you purchase and feed into your printer, you will first need to do a printer alignment to ensure that they align correctly.


2003

November, 2003:
Compatibility updates for Certified Payroll Solution and Construction Application for Payment Solution to work with QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2004 and Enterprise Solution 4.0 available.

September, 2003:
Conversion Utilities available for both CPS & CAPS available free of charge for all registered users.  These conversion utilities are for users who purchased Certified Payroll Solution version 4.9 using QuickBooks Pro 99-2002 who are now using QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2003 or newer to migrate to CPS Version 5.0 written with the Intuit Software Development Kit (SDK) and for Construction Application for Payment users who originally purchased CAPS version 4.7 for use with QuickBooks Pro 99-2001 who are now using QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2002 or newer to migrate to CAPS version 5.0 written with the Intuit Software Development Kit.

August, 2003:
We added an on-line forum to this site; the forum is open to all.

July, 2003:
Construction Application for Payment Solution Update
this update included better functionality for the use of QuickBooks® Group Items, enhanced functionality for Taxable contracts, Taxable Contracts with Change Orders, and allows Retainage Billing to be included with the final draw.

June, 2003:
Certified Payroll Solution Version 4.9 update for new US Department of Labor Form WH-347 and it's reporting mandates.

May, 2003:
Certified Payroll Solution Version 5.0 update for new US Department of Labor Form WH-347 and it's reporting mandates.

February, 2003:
Certified Payroll Solution Version 5.0
for QuickBooks® Pro/Premier and Enterprise 3.0 released.  Version 5.0 has been totally rewritten using the QuickBooks® Software Development Kit (SDK), which uses qbXML technology and replaces the Version 4.9 interface provided by the DataBlox, Inc. OfficeQ Pro product.  Version 5.0 will allow you to have QuickBooks® open while running CPS.  To learn more about the SDK
We will continue to maintain CPS Version 4.9 for people still using QuickBooks® Pro 99-2002 who are no longer using the QuickBooks® Payroll Tax Tables and processing their payroll using the manual method (paper tax tables and manual calculations).
Certified Payroll Solution Version 4.9 compatibility update for QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2003 Editions and Enterprise 2.0 released.  This interface is provided via the DataBlox, Inc. OfficeQ Pro product.
Construction Application for Payment Solution conversion utility available for user's who purchased Version 4.7 and have upgraded to QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2003 Editions and Enterprise Solutions 2.0.

January, 2003:
Construction Application for Payment Solution Version 5.0 compatibility update for QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2003 Editions and Enterprise 2.0 released.  This update also includes a separate Retainage Billing function.


2002

November, 2002:
Print Preview Enhancement released for both Certified Payroll Solution and Construction Application for Payment Solution.  This functionality allows you to preview your certified payroll reports or billings for accuracy, prior to printing them.

August, 2002
Construction Application for Payment Solution enhancement provides 19 commonly used Contract Document Templates; which utilize the QuickBooks® Write Letters function.
Certified Payroll Solution enhancement provides the US DOL Form CC-257 EEOC Reporting form

February, 2002:
Construction Application for Payment Solution Version 4.7 for use with QuickBooks® Pro 99-2001 released, this interface is provided via the DataBlox, Inc. OfficeQ Pro product.

January, 2002:
Certified Payroll Solution compatibility update provides interface with QuickBooks® Pro/Premier 2002 Editions.
Construction Application for Payment Solution Version 5.0 is initially released.  This new product is written using the QuickBooks® SDK (Software Development Kit), which uses qbXML technology and will allow you to have QuickBooks open while running the program.  We will be releasing a version of CAPS for users of QuickBooks® Pro 99-2001 later this year.


2001

March, 2001:
Certified Payroll Solution Version 4.9 is initially released after 9 months of research, development, and testing.


2000

October, 2000:
Certified payroll reports generated by Certified Payroll Solution are being submitted weekly in the state of Connecticut.  Research and development for all other states is on-going in order to make this program produce not only the US Department of Labor WH-347 Certified Payroll Report, but to allow user's to generate their own state's mandated report if it has it's own specialized reporting requirements that have been derived from the Federal reporting mandates.

August, 2000:
A four year search has ended for not only a method to retrieve information from QuickBooks® through the use of the DataBlox, Inc. OfficeQ Pro product, but for someone to write the code for a certified payroll reporting add-on product.  Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. is founded in Somers, MT by Nancy Hoffman and Ben Smyth and development of Certified Payroll Solution begins using live weekly payroll data from Connecticut for testing purposes.


1996

Nancy Hoffman, a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor and independent bookkeeper living in Connecticut begins her search for someone to write a certified payroll reporting and an AIA billing add-on for QuickBooks®.


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