Costs, Retail prices, Wholesale prices, web prices
Digital Images
Power Search - filter by selecting criteria.
Customer Management
More than just "Names and Addresses"
Tastes
Purchase and Payment Histories
Cross Linked automatically to inventory and sales
Email Broadcasting
Framing
SIMPLE to use screens - unlike most framing packages
Powerful enough to handle all framing requirements
Point of Sale
Automatic relation between inventory, client info, payments.
Easily find piece already in inventory using Power Search
"Quick Sale" features for items not in inventory
Multiple addresses / phone numbers for clients
Multiple payment options including gift certificates, travelers
checks, credit cards, layaways and installments
Supports POS hardware such as barcode scanners, mag stripe readers,
cash drawers and receipt printers.
(Note that due to scanner limitations, it may not be possible
to print "teeny tiny" jewelry labels with readable barcodes -
this is not a limitation of Masterpiece, but the physical dimensions
of the labels and the length of the barcodes. "Normal"
size barcodes should be fine.)
Web Integration
Automated connection between "local" database and "online" database
used for gallery's dynamic web site
Allows very easy control of web content directly from gallery
computer - without learning HTML or FTP
Ensures that gallery's web site remains up-to-date
Email titles and pictures to contacts.
Scalability
FULLY scaleable from a single computer in one location to multiple
computers running in remote locations via LAN or WAN connections.
BENEFITS TO ART GALLERIES
Masterpiece offers the art and antique gallery owner several benefits
in both their counter and back office procedures
Cleaner presentation
More accurate POS information
Access to hundreds of "standard" reports
Faster processing of "boring" paperwork tasks
Security
Cleaner presentation
Customizable layouts on printed Invoices, Statements
No more "sticky notes" relating to customer promises - "Don't
ship till Sept 5 th "
No more outdated "inventory sheets"
POS Accuracy
Client details (names, addresses) are confirmed by the client
at time of sale
Less likely to sell the "wrong piece" during the transaction
Tax, Sale, and Discount calculations done by computer - fewer
user errors
Perpetual record. Invoices and sales data can be recalled years
after the event
Reports
Inventory reports - By Artist, Vendor, Location, Price - etc
