If you can get a hold of a copy of Commence you can set it up to be the absolute complete piano buisness system. Works as a PM, Bookkeeper, Customer Records, To do's and just about anything you can think of. It is one of those multi-relational databases. Its free. Buy a copy of the magazine PC Plus (a british publication, also available on the nett). A while back you could download this package from their website. You can set it up to write out your bills for you, and write the envelopes with addresses. Once you enter a new customer you can attach as many bills to that person as you want without haveing to re-enter any personal stuff, so that at any time you can look up the complete history of bills and work you have done for any given customer. I have been using it for 4 years now. At years end I just back it up and take the disk to my bookeeper, who does my taxes for me with it. An idiot (puter idiot that is) could figure out how to make it purr www.pcplus.co.uk Richard Brekne I.C.P.T.G. N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway Staccatomusic@cs.com wrote: > I've been using the "old-fashioned" card system of tracking my customers for > the past twelve years. I want to become more efficient. Can anyone suggest a > good piano-business software package that's a good value for the money? Bob
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