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Appointment Book: Book appointments quickly and easily.

• Creates standing appointments
• Walk-in appointment window
• Automatically blocks out the correct amount of time that you’ve configured for a particular service
• Each appointment is given a different color to make it easier to see at a glance
• If there is not enough time for an appointment, you will have the option to “squeeze” it in anyway.
• Mark appointments as “No Shows”
• Scroll-ahead calendar makes planning easy
• Easy “Book/Cancel” appointments button.

Marketing Emails: Create professional loolking full-color promotional emails.

• Send to one or all customers at the click of a button.
• Great for sale announcements, appointment reminders, thank you notes, holiday email cards, new location announcement, etc.
• Emails have text and images embedded directly into the body of the message, not as an attachment.
• Embed your own images or use the images that are included in the software.
• Configure discounts that are automatically applied during checkout

Send Promotion window

• Uses your free web mail account (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.) to send promotional emails that you design. You don’t need to set up any email servers on your pc.
• Each email message is sent to one customer at a time, not to a long list of customers in the “Send to” line. This means that customers won’t see each other’s email addresses.
• Works with any email using standard “Simple Mail” protocol (standard across all email).
• Can “Send to All Customers” or just one.

A Sample of what a promotional email looks like when opened from Hotmail.

• The stock images were replaced with custom images copied from the web.
• The customer’s name was automatically inserted into the message itself.
• The text message of the promotional email is completely customizable.
• The promotional message is embedded into the body of the email itself, not as an attachment.
• Receipts are emailed this with with a full color “Thank You” card embedded into the message text.

Check Out Window:

• Add retail products to the order
• Apply promotions that you’ve sent to your customers and the discounts are automatically calculated
• Add unplanned discounts on the fly (allows percentage discounts or flat amounts)
• Calculates sales tax
• Tip field provided
• Email or print receipts.
• Products are automatically deducted from inventory when sold

Reports:

• Sales Detail Report shows all orders for a selected time period with totals at the end
• Sales Summary shows total service sales, product sales, and total discounts for a selected time period
• Profit and Loss Statement (also known as an income statement) shows your net income or loss to make filing income taxes easy
• Inventory Reports to show quantity on hand and quantity on order, with alerts to show when an order should be placed.
• Sales Tax Summary totals sales taxes due for a time period for each kind of tax (e.g. state, county, city, etc.)
• Promotional Summary to see which promotions are working and which are not.
• Appointments Report shows appointment times, customer names and numbers. Great for making courtesy reminder calls.
• Customer List shows name address and phone information for all customers

Reports Viewer: Allows reports to be

• Printed
• Saved to File
• Emailed

Customer window allows you to

• Maintain your customer address, telephone and email contact information,
• Save historical notes (such as formulas, phone conversation notes, etc.),
• Set standing appointments.

Products window allows you to

• Define products that you sell. Products defined here will be available on the Checkout window to add to an order.
• Maintain inventory (Qty on Hand, on Order, etc.)
• Email orders to your supply rep
• Receive orders into inventory
• Place items on back order
• Track product information, e.g., cost, supplier, etc.
• Add new suppliers
• Automatically alert you to inventory items that are running low.

Easily Find Appointments by entering in any piece of the phone number, first name, or last name.

Expenses window

• Helps you organize and track your business expenditures.
• Expenses entered here are used in the reporting window for the Expense Detail report and for the Profit and Loss Statement.
• Makes filing income taxes easy.