hippoprinting
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Our print shop is very tiny. We have 4 employees, 5 if you include the owner. We looked at printer's plan and Digital Print Manager by Bard Solutions. We love the Digital Print Manager and think Printer's plan is more than we need. We are growing and need something better than our current system. The issue we keep finding with most MIS systems is there is no AP/AR functions that will run credit cards or work with our account software.
We also produce a newspaper and on the newspaper side we use Merrimac Publishing software. It does everything we need but doesn't have the quoting, job ticket/docket/work order, inventory tracking etc. that we need. 80% of our projects are billed to credit cards. The Merrimac software works with PC charge to run the credit cards and apply them the account accordingly. The issue again is that Merrimac for advertising, not tracking paper inventory or time tracking employees or estimating etc.
Any suggestions? We want to grow our business with as little overhead as possible but because of our lack of follow through or random follow through with quotes etc we need something to help with the amount of admin time. I spend anywhere from 3-5 minutes entering each project into our current system and probably something like 15-30 minutes with each quote I do. Not leaving a lot of time to do anything else as a CSR, Manager, Inside Sales person, "Air Traffic Controller", supply ordering, vendor relations... need I go on?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. In all of this I still have to pitch it to the owner and do my research.
We also produce a newspaper and on the newspaper side we use Merrimac Publishing software. It does everything we need but doesn't have the quoting, job ticket/docket/work order, inventory tracking etc. that we need. 80% of our projects are billed to credit cards. The Merrimac software works with PC charge to run the credit cards and apply them the account accordingly. The issue again is that Merrimac for advertising, not tracking paper inventory or time tracking employees or estimating etc.
Any suggestions? We want to grow our business with as little overhead as possible but because of our lack of follow through or random follow through with quotes etc we need something to help with the amount of admin time. I spend anywhere from 3-5 minutes entering each project into our current system and probably something like 15-30 minutes with each quote I do. Not leaving a lot of time to do anything else as a CSR, Manager, Inside Sales person, "Air Traffic Controller", supply ordering, vendor relations... need I go on?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. In all of this I still have to pitch it to the owner and do my research.