+IMPACT series of programs is designed to give you the competitive edge to maintain and improve the profitability of your business. This is achieved by providing tools to better analysis the information accumulated during day to day activities. Using this analysis, you can fine tune the system.

These programs will assist you to
-       Provide better service to your customers
-       Provide more competitive pricing without reducing profits
-       Manage capital invested in stock to provide a better return on investment.
-       Target groups and categories for improvement
-       Productivity and Efficiency

When you implement the +Impact Business System you will have access to up to the minute sales and stock data.

The database used by +Impact is robust and reliable. In the event of file corruption, recovered transactions can be merged into a backup database to ensure completeness and integrity of the database.

Due to the intuitive nature of the +Impact Business System (especially the Point of Sale program) your staff can be operating the system after a short training session. The product is the result of input from hundreds of users over the past 20 years.

+Impact Business System allows you start with as little as 1 computer in a single office or shop, and grow to several hundred due to its scalability. This can be achieved with a minimal increase in back office staff.

Avoid double work, +Impact automatically feeds information from the single point of entry through to all back office functions. These include Bank Reconciliation, Re-stocking, Purchasing.

The program controls charge out prices, stock and re-order levels with automatic updating and low stock warnings. If maintaining stock levels, re-order suggestion reports can be generated based on minimum stock ordering quantities, minimum stock holding requirements and current on hand quantities.

The stock module is capable of holding tens of thousands of spare parts or stock items. This is very easy to access. The stock is generally manually entered but may be downloaded into the stock program from a third party database, using an additional translation program (such as MS Excel or MS Access).

Extensive sales history is retained on each stock card in addition to the normal information such as selling price cost price and so on.

Bar coding of stock items is an option available for identifying the stock item in addition to the stock code and stock description. Barcode labels and shelf labels may be printed directly from the program to inkjet and laser or specific barcode printers.

Stock valuation can be done whenever it is required, on the spot. The age of spare parts (for tax purposes) is generated on demand as required. This shows the number of months 0-12, 13-24, 24-36, 37-48, 48+ and shows the number of items, value and other information. Stock-take sheets can be printed by shelf location supplier and other options for easy stock-taking.

A picture image of the stock item may be stored on the stock card for reference.

When invoicing, customer and stock are entered by either code or description. When invoicing 'casual' customers it is possible to personalise details for cash sale or miscellaneous accounts (name address, delivery address and instructions). Otherwise the personal details default to those on the debtors card.

If you are invoicing an item that does not exist in the stock database, and you have no intention in putting it there, you may invoice it as a 'non-stock' item.

The text or description of the service or product may be added in word processing type format. This can cover any number of lines or pages up to 80 characters across.

Standard descriptions can be created and recalled during invoicing. These can be modified for the current invoice. This is great for long winded job descriptions which are invoiced regularly.

An invoice need not be closed (open invoice) until the service or component is completed on the job. Parts and labour can be added to it as the work progresses.

Commission on sales is very advanced. Commission may be paid on sales, reciepts on sales. The commission may be calculated on the total value (net) of the sale or on the individual stock items.

Invoices are printed on any Windows compatible printer. The program comes with formats which print on commonly used printers but may be modified to suit your requirements or printer variances.(see "Hardware requirements")

Most information is available on screen saving the need to continually print reports. This also gives faster access to information.

To assist in finding the codes and names within the system, there are 'pop-up windows' into the various files. This includes debtors, analysis groups, salesreps, stock codes etc.

Almost all instructions and options are details on screen. This takes the form of menus, buttons  or instructions when you hover the mouse over the option.

Additional modules will update products and prices from price books supplied from the major suppliers in New Zealand.

With this program you will:

- Spend less time costing jobs, maintaining accounts, and probably do it more accurately.

- increase profitability, reduce overheads, improve efficiency and accuracy by job costing.

- improve reliability of profit figures by having accurate figures to start with and working through to determine accurately the final profit on a job.

- keep a track of sales history for debtors and creditors helps to keep tabs on consistent and incorrect charging of products.

The ability to reference back to similar jobs in the past will help accuracy and speed of quoting new jobs.

It is usually easier and quicker to get up and running by getting us to install the program and provide the necessary training to use the program. Because the program is relatively intuitive, once you have the basics of the system, the rest flows naturally.