1. ATTENTION ALL DEPARTMENTS:

| Check Out the Upcoming Holiday Support Hours. Click Here!

2. ATTENTION OFFICE MANAGERS & CONTROLLERS:

| 2019 Accounting/Accounts Payable/Payroll/ACA Forms Year-End Guidelines are available. Click Here!

| It’s That Time Again! 2019 1099 & W-2 Forms Ordering Information is Now Available. Click Here!

| Newly Redesigned Report & Consolidated Financial Statement Menu Enhancement. Click Here!

| State Specific Predefined Unemployment Insurance Extract Reports are now available. Click Here!

3. ATTENTION PARTS DEPARTMENTS:

| ‘Tis the Season for Parts Physical Inventory. Click Here!

4. ATTENTION GENERAL MOTORS DEALERS SERVICE DEPARTMENTS:

| GM Online Service Scheduling (OSS) Service Front End (SFE) Status Flags. Click Here!

ATTENTION OFFICE MANAGERS/CONTROLLERS

2019 Accounting, Payroll, and Accounts Payable Year-End Guidelines

Read up on our suggested Year-End guidelines for Accounting, Account Payable, and Payroll. These guidelines provide the common practices for closing the year in the above-mentioned modules as well as forms, such as ACA Forms Printing Subscription, ordering information.

All are now available on the AMU Portal Message Center. Need help with the Message Center? Click Here.

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It’s That Time Again! The 2019 1099 & W-2 Forms Ordering

The ordering and pricing information for 2018 1099 and W-2 Forms is now available. The information provides ordering quantities, pricing, and two ways (via email or phone) to place your orders.

Ordering information is on the AMU Portal Message Center. Need help with the Message Center? Click Here.

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Newly Redesigned Accounting Reports and Consolidated Financial Statement Menu

Auto/Mate has streamlined several reports in the Accounting Module. These new reports (Program 23, 24, 27, and 28) are easy to use and feature the same functionality and look plus the ability to easily save, print, or export. They also offer better navigation with point and click and keyboard hot keys.

We have a short document available on the AMU Reference Center. Use search keyword: acct-reports.

For those dealers who have Consolidated Financial Statement Companies, we also modified the Consolidated FS Menu. Some menu items have been eliminated and others have been modified

We have a short document available on the AMU Portal Reference Center. Search Keyword: FS-Menu.

If your dealership has the minimum AMPS software version shown below, you already have the new enhancements.

AMPS Version: 3.5.463 or Higher. Click here for the location of your current AMPS version.

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Unemployment Insurance Extract Reports are now available for certain states

For those dealers that have the new version of the Payroll Module :

We now have State Specific Pre-Defined Unemployment Insurance Extract Reports available. We currently have reports for 22 States and we will be adding more states in the coming months.

Newly Added Reports:

The Special Edit Instructions, if available for your State, are now available on the AMU Portal Reference Center. Search Keyword: UI Extracts.

AMPS Version: 3.5.483 or Higher. Click here for the location of your current AMPS version.

 

ATTENTION gm service departments

GM OSS – Service Front End Custom Status Flags

We now allow you and your employees to set Custom Status Flags in Service Front End (SFE) that can either push to, or pull from GM OSS to help identify transportation requests and Express Service.

Creating an appointment in Auto/Mate with an OSS enabled flag will push that appointment information to OSS.

Creating an appointment in OSS will push the appointment information and any applicable enabled OSS flag into Auto/Mate.

Customer Flags Setup:

  • 1. Select the System Configuration Gear

  • 2. Under General, select Customer Status Flags option

  • 3. Select the Status Flag you wish to edit and click Edit Status Flag in the bottom right corner

  • 4. You can now write a description up to 15 characters and select an image for the Status Flag

AMPS Version: 3.5.473 or Higher. Click here for the location of your current AMPS version.

ATTENTION PARTS DEPARTMENTs

‘Tis the Season for Parts Physical Inventory

Are you ready to perform your annual Parts Physical Inventory? We have documents and tutorial videos on how to process it in Auto/Mate all in one place.

All are now available on the AMU Portal Message Center. Need help with the Message Center? Click Here.

ATTENTION ALL DEPARTMENTS

2019 Holiday Support Hours

Auto/Mate will have shortened support hours or will be closed on the following holidays.

Christmas

  • December 24 – Open 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

  • December 25 – CLOSED

New Year

  • December 31 – Open 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST

  • January 1, 2020 – CLOSED

EMERGENCY!
If you have an emergency, please call our regular support telephone number 800-371-3970 and follow the prompt.

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AMU Message Center Quick Tips

The steps outlined below show to access the Year-End Guidelines information in the AMU Message Center.

First, select the AMU tab in Auto/Mate

Next, select the “System Administrator” or “Accounting Office” Group on the main Message Center screen

Then, click on Events to display the Year-End Guidelines as shown on the sample screenshot below. Click on the desired guideline to access the information

Check your AMPS Version below.

This sample screenshot shows where your current AMPS Version will be displayed.

Check your Server Version below.

This sample screenshot shows where your current Server Version will be displayed.

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