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Specification

Job Management
 See all jobs for a period in an easy to view
    chart.
  No duplication of work entering information.
  Turn quotes to bookings with a single click.
  All details for a job shown in a clear summary, including invoices
    and payments.
 
  See overbookings instantly when closing a job.
  Produce all documentation for the job from the data you have
    entered with no repetition of entering data.  This can include
    reports such as:-
     
- Quotation

      - Order Confirmation / Acknowledgement
      - Contract
     
- Load / Pick List
     
- Delivery & Collection Notes
     
- Losses & damages report
      - Invoices

  Documentation can be printed, faxed, emailed directly or a
    combination of all three.
  Store and report on management information such as Source of
    Enquiry, Event Type, etc.

  View bookings / enquiries and their revenue for any period
    - compare periods over different years.

Stock Availability
  Check stock availability for the required period by:
       - Individual jobs
Stock Availability Chart
       - Single stock items
       - Stock groups
       - Custom groups
       - All overbooked

  Sub Hire overbooked items to reduce
    stock
    shortage.

  See the status of the job on availability checks to help with
    rearranging  put-up, delivery and remove, collection dates.

  Report on availability reports for required dates.

Contacts
  Stores all your customers and suppliers.
  Search by Name, Account Ref, Keywords or any of the stored
    information e.g. post code, telephone number.
Contact Details
  Attach default settings to each customer
    for:-
       - Discount
       - Delivery / Collection charge
       - Damage Waiver
      
- Price Band
      
- Cash / Credit customer
       - Payment terms

  Store more detailed information including:-
       - Additional contacts
       - Extra addresses for invoices, delivery etc
      
- Special prices for all/some items
  reate  your own  categories  and  store  further information
   against them.

  Keep a record of phone calls for each customer or supplier.
  View a history of jobs for the contact.
  Invoicing and payment history stored against each customer.

Stock
  Import from spreadsheet to save input time.
  Handles complex items, e.g. marquees, as well as single items
    such as furniture and catering equipment.

  Add  “out of service”  days to  cover cleaning/testing.Amend Stock Item
  Settings to control order of load/ pick list.
  Create packs of items to make selecting
    easier.

  Report on stock transactions for a period,
    including losses, purchases and sales.

  View usage / revenue information for
    individual stock items, groups of items or
    your entire stock.

Sub-Hire
  Sub hire overbooked items directly from the job.
  Reduces overbooking for dates of sub hire.
  Produce list of sub hires due in or due to be collected / returned.
  Analyse sub hires by item for the year.
  Enter prices on sub hires to report on actual Income of a job and
    expenditure on sub hire items.

Invoicing
  Produce invoices / credit notes directly from the job.
  Use block invoicing to raise all invoices for jobs delivered and
    collected in a period.
  As well as the Main Invoice, you can also raise invoices for:-
    
  - Deposits
      
- Additional items
      
- Losses / Damages
      
- Staged Payments
       - Long Term Hires
  Can be linked to Final Account or an external Accounts Packages.

Resource Planner

Resource Planning
  Keep track of your staff and vehicles.
  You can allocate resources to jobs,
    events or make them ‘unavailable”’.
  Print job schedules - either global or
    individual.
  Add time sheet information to individuals and jobs.

Delivery Scheduling
  Schedule deliveries, collections and sub hire pick ups/returns to
    individual vehicles.
  Allocate up to 5 runs per day for each vehicle.
  Order the deliveries / collections as you need them.
  Simple drag and drop operation.
  Print off schedules for each driver or overall day.
  Easy view times and locations of deliveries to assist scheduling.

Event/Venue ManagerEvent Details
  Create Events and Venues.
  Attach jobs to their Venue / Event and
    automatically update
    their dates, delivery address and
    delivery/collection charges.
  Run bulk reports e.g. delivery notes by
    Event/Venue.
  Look at revenue by Event / Venue.

Security
  Configure access to various aspects of the software for each
    User.
  Set the level of reporting they can view.
  Log all changes to jobs by user.

Additional Features:-

Notepad
  Helps you to keep track of a job.  Enter any relevant information
    here (record of phone conversation, special requirements, etc.)
    and it can be seen by anyone opening the job.

A To Do List
  Set these up against a Job or a Contact and they will be flagged
    both in the Diary and the Things To Do List to remind you.

Diary
  Shows your own and other people’s appointments and meetings,
    Things To Do, and schedule of sub hires.

Call Log
  Keep a record of phone messages for each user, linked  to  the
    customer they relate to.  When a user picks up their messages,
    they can add in a response and mark them as completed.

Outlook Connection
 •  Link emails from your Inbox or Sent Items directly to a Job or
     Contact.  These can then be re-opened and replied to from
     all Hire.

Back-up
  Run backups of your data directly from all Hire and automatically
    copy to external media to take off the Premises.