How is AyaNova different from AyaNova CE?

AyaNova CE was our previous version of AyaNova. CE stood for “Classic Edition”.

AyaNova CE was created using C#, utilized the Jet 4.0 database engine and was first released for commercial use December 1999. The last released AyaNova CE version was 1.9.4.4

Over the years AyaNova CE has been expanded with many free maintenance updates. We eventually got to the point where adding any additional features required a lot of rewriting while still imposing some major limitations, in most cases resulting in being unable to add a new feature at all. We therefore embarked on development of the next generation AyaNova.

Some of the new features that have been added are:

AyaNova is developed using .NET, utilizes the Firebird or SQL Server database engine and includes many new features and additional ease of use.

AyaNova is more intuitive to what a user needs to do – making it easier to use for all personnel in a service company

One service work order screen – all work order information is entered on one screen so you never lose track of who the work order is for (work order header info) (work order item header info). A work order can be a brief as needed or as in-depth as needed. Many additional workorder features such as ability to move or copy workorder items, scheduled multiple schedulable users, request parts to be ordered and much more.

Optional inventory feature – maintain inventory of parts, enter and receive Purchase Orders, determine stock and much more

Localization – edit the standard labels for fields using what is appropriate for your service industry and business in any language

Custom Fields – ability to add additional custom fields to many of the AyaNova screens.

Reporting – with the internal reporting feature, you can customize layout and data fields in existing reports plus create your own.

Notification – Users can subscribe to being notified when certain events happen in AyaNova.

Expanded Contract features – including discount to be applied to parts and specific rates to be used.

Banked Service – This allows tracking of banked hours, incidents or currency (money amount). Enter either manually or automatically via a workorder item’s Labor.

Expanded meter readings for Units – Maintain a history of meter readings tracking date of readings

Outlook style Schedule screen – View multiple schedulable users at one time, or individual schedulable users. Create new workorders and add directly to existing workorder items. Create views to display based on skills, certificates, as well as dispatch zones and regions that schedulable users belong to.

Expanded Preventive Maintenance features – as the Preventive Maintenance creation screen is based on the service workorder screen itself, it is very straightforward to create a PM that can be for multiple Units at one time, schedule multiple users, ability to set a stop date, ability to specify parts and much more.

Document Attachments – attach documents to Clients, Units, and Service Work orders and allow other users access to these documents regardless of network setup.

Quotes – as Quote creation is based on the service workorder screen itself, it is very straightforward to create a quote for a customer, and than with the Copy to Workorder button, create a workorder based on what was entered without having to re-enter everything, while still maintaining a copy of the quote.

And more!

And these are in addition to all the features that AyaNova CE came with.