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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 Certified Payroll Solution Audio/Video Training
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Free Construction Application for Payment Solution Audio/Video Training
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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
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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