Piano Service Software

[Greg Newell]

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Tom,
         I'd be interested to know which "portable" printer you end up with.

Greg Newell

At 12:58 AM 12/15/2005, you wrote:
>Terry,
>First I'm no computer geek.
>I did like PTBiz on several platforms, one being the work order for each=20
>customer. The other using that as an invoice.
>But I have my own invoices, so that feature doesn't do anything for my way=
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>of doing business.
>As far as directions, information for the day, etc, I print out the day's=
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>work schedule on an 8x 11 sheet and that gets put on a suctioned cup mini=
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>clipboard which hangs on my windshield. Everything for that is at a=20
>glance. Then as a backup I have the Pocket PC for any further information.
>As far as directions, T&C has a nice feature where you can assign blocks=20
>for directions, phone numbers, email, etc. I always assign for directions,=
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>then simply cut and paste onto the scheduled time.
>And as far as printing up invoices, which I like the idea very much, I'm=20
>looking into an portable printer which can accept a beam from the pocket=20
>pc and print invoices.
>I still convinced more and more that T&C has got it right...keep it simple=
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>and extremely flexible.  After 2 yrs of doing basic tweaking in, I have=20
>nice functioning system which, so far, has been incredibly fun to work=
 with.
>Tom Servinsky
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>Farrell
>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech
>Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:29 AM
>Subject: Re: Piano Service Software
>
>Tom,
>
>How does T&C handle some of the desirable features of PBiz - like=20
>maintaining a service record for customer's pianos - printing out a work=20
>order with driving directions and piano service record - reports of pianos=
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>and sales/income - does it keep track of invoices and payment?
>
>One of the things where PTBiz really helps me is that it will take an=20
>appointment (work order) and convert it into an invoice - that needs to be=
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>paid. With that feature, once I make an appointment (which I can remember=
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>to do), the program will keep track of that appointment through creating=20
>the invoice and having the invoice paid. If I had to do that all on my=20
>own, I would have failed at this business a long time ago!
>
>If the bare-bones T&C program doesn't do these things, but your tweaked=20
>version does, are you in the business of customizing for other techs?
>
>I used to be pretty good with computers (DOS days), but I've drifted so=20
>far away from tweaking anything computer related - I just want to plug it=
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>in and have the darn thing work. Is there any hope?
>
>Terry Farrell
>----- Original Message -----
>Do yourself a favor and go directly to Time & Chaos. You won't pay a=20
>fortune for some out-dated software. You'll get a tech service that is out=
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>of this world. You'll get one of the most flexible and most use-friendly=20
>programs out there. And for less than $100. It also syncs with the Palm=20
>devices.  <http://www.chaossoftware.com>www.chaossoftware.com
>I've tweaked my program for the last 3 yrs and finally have running=20
>smoothly and effectively.
>Oh...and I'm a recovering PTBIZ user.
>Tom Servinsky

Greg Newell
Greg's piano Fort=E9
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