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Card Manager

Card Manager is specifically designed for the Direct to Retail Sales environment within the Greeting Card Industry, for use by Manufacturers, Publishers, or Wholesale Distributors and allowing, amongst other advantages, the full implementation of a Stock Control Ticket Servicing system for the benefit of you, and your Customers...
Further details can be seen on the Card Manager Web Site.
 

 

 

 

Created with the express intention of bringing the expertise of the sophisticated Mainframe Computer systems, designed and employed by the major greeting card publishers, to smaller Companies who desire to use those same skills, but at affordable prices and capable of running either on a standalone P.C. or P.C. network...

 
Designed to take advantage of Windows:-  NT®, 2000, XP, Vista 32, and Vista 64.
Card Manager looks after all of your Stock Control Display Rack Planning requirements whilst giving full control over Finished Inventory including demand forecasting and Warehouse shipment control,  Ticket ProcessingSales Reporting and Commissions, Order Processing including Invoicing which culminates in a seamless link to most popular Windows Accounting Packages,  thereby eliminating any necessity to enter items of information more that once in either product...
 
System requirements are a Windows PC having a minimum of 1 gig of memory.
Versions exists for a single user, and various levels of multi-user, using the Microsoft SQL Server...
 
Because all data is maintained in industry standard database format, full user interrogation of the Card Manager database is possible by either using Database software such as Microsoft® Access or a report writer such as Crystal Reports®...

 

    Card Manager consists of the following modules:-

 
Master Module  
This comes as standard with all versions and gives full access control and operator logging facilities. Menu restrictions may be made on the basis of an Operator, or Group of Operators...
 
Inventory Control
Controls all Stock movements and valuations, giving full reporting and forecasting capabilities. Stock movements are monitored from your Customers Racks and therefore True Sales data is collected to provide league tables of Fast Selling / Slow Selling Designs...
 
Display Planning.
Allows Stock Control Display Plans to be created on line, with pockets either being newly created or imported from an existing Plan on a drag and drop basis, giving real time information on participant analysis, average retail pricing etc. This module has an additional extension which gives the ability to create a Display Plan automatically for a specified display size and tier by reference to pre-determined model line giving caption and price summaries of your projected product availability...
 
Ticket Processing.
Gives a full implementation of the industry standard Stock Control Ticket Servicing system using Bar-coded Tickets, which may be returned either manually or by computer data transfer from your Customer. Full control is given over the type and style of product required by each individual Customer, and the product selection takes note of fast and slow seller performance on an individual Customer Display basis. Stock Control Display analysis can be provided for Customer information, either as a selling tool, or to allow display fine tuning to take place on a regular basis...
 
Order Processing.
 Takes care of Customer orders, for all Seasons, either on a Design by Design basis, or alternatively by providing a selection of Designs ordered by Price & Caption, but based on your 'best sellers'...
 
Sales reporting
Allows reporting of Orders and Invoices for a multi-level Sales force giving weekly and monthly reporting of performance both for information and control purposes, together with a flexible Commission structure...