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Costume Vision
Costume Vision will truly revolutionize the way that you do business
- it's time lose the pen and paper and really take control! Not
only should Costume Vision provide you with significant time savings
in all aspects of the rental process but it should also dramatically
increase the information available to you thereby giving you the
power to really know not only your customers but your entire operation.
Amongst the powerful features that
the software has are:
General
- Easy to use Windows interface - Costume
Vision has been designed so that even users with very little computer
experience can be at ease with the software in minimal time. The use
of Windows rather than a DOS system adds aesthetic appeal, provides
an environment most people are already comfortable working within.
- Password protection - Users can be
assigned varying priority levels within the system meaning that
key functions and access to sensitive information can be restricted
to those users who have been approved access.
- Personalized main screen
- Select images stored on your computer to use as the background
for the main screen. Add a store design,
or any other jpeg image of your choosing.
- Powerful search module - An enhanced
search module allows search on and display of virtually any information
stored about a customer, rental item or saleable product.
Rentals, Returns, Sales and Reservations
- Manage rentals and returns with ease -
Costume Vision controls your entire rental and return operation, automatically
calculating charges, taxes and late return charges due.
- Sales - Sales of any peripheral products
can also be conducted and tracked by Costume Vision.
- Receipts - The built in receipt wizard
allows full configuration of your rental and sales receipts and
can be used to customize your receipt in virtually every way.
It not only allows the configuration of a receipt in virtually
any language and currency but also allows printing of promotional
discount coupons and a personalized terms of rental to be printed
on the receipts.
- Integrated reservations - Full reservation
functionality is provided - including features such as warnings if an
attempt is made to rent or reserve an item that is already reserved
for the required period.
- Flexible Pricing Structures - rental pricing
within a given Rental Category can either be restricted to a single
time and rental price or alternatively a matrix may be configured for
the category which allows different prices to be set for different rental
periods. In the latter option, when an item is rented a quick to use
rental time dialog is presented to allow selection of the appropriate
price band for the rental in question.
- Overdue rentals - overdue rentals
are tracked and reports by date, item, customer and customer phone
number are available allowing you to follow up late returns with
minimum administration.
- Pay on return - Full functionality
to allow your customers to pay for their rentals on return should
you wish to allow them.
- Return receipts - Printing of return receipts
is available for those customers who require one.
- Extend rentals - The return date for a
rental may be easily extended should the customer for instance call
asking for extra rental time.
- Flexible editing - return date, number
of days rental, and/or price can be flexibly edited for any given
rental.
Rental and sale items
- Rental item management - each and every
item in your rental inventory is individually tracked and full details
about the item (including cost price, date purchased, rental category,
selling price, description, size, etc) are stored.
- Custom information storage - Costume Vision's rental item database has 4 fields which you may customize
to store and view virtually ANY information of your choosing.
- Sell items - Rental items may also be sold
if required.
- Display an image of the item -
A picture of the item can be stored and viewed along with the item's
details and used to produce a catalog (or even a web site) featuring your
rental inventory.
- Search for available item - A special availability
screen allows quick identification when a given item is available.
- Stock level monitoring - Levels of
inventory held of all products available for sale may be monitored.
- Stock reorder Levels - Costume Vision further lifts the burden of stock management by allowing
reorder levels to be specified for each saleable product in your
database - when stock inventory hits the reorder level Costume Vision automatically gives a reorder needed alert removing the need
for time consuming manual stock checks.
- Stock order reports-
Costume Vision makes order management simple by the printing
of recommended order reports either for a single supplier or for
multiple suppliers. The order report may be edited before printing,
creating a simple record of orders placed with suppliers.
Customers
- Customer management - Costume Vision stores
all your important customer information including name, address, telephone,
email, first rental date, credit card data, comments, date of last visit,
account status, and up to 4 custom pieces of information (see below).
Please note that in some localities the customer's permission may be
needed to collect and use certain data.
- Customer photos - Customer photos can be
captured or added from file and displayed at the time of rental for
extra security.
- Photo capture - Costume Vision works with
your existing web cam to provide slick and easy to use customer photo
capture within the software for extra security.
- Customer account management - Customers
accounts can be flexibly managed with an enhanced account management
module. Each account item is individually displayed and can be
managed independently, allowing for extremely flexible account management.
- Security deposits - The collection and
refund of security deposits is made easy with Costume Vision's simple
to use deposit functionality.
- Full customer and item histories -
Full rental history is stored and is available for each customer and
rental item.
- Overdue rental letters - A fully customizable
overdue rentals letter may be printed from Costume Vision.
- Preferred customer discounts - If required
Costume Vision allows you to give your most valuable customers a percentage
discount on all purchases and rentals.
Reports
- Management reporting - Gain a greater
understanding of your business with reports selected from a powerful
reporting environment. These reports provide you with a complete
summary of all aspects of your business, including all items currently
on rental or overdue, historic rentals, rental, rental and
sales revenues (within a defined period of your choice), revenue
summaries, profit/loss per item, rental item catalogs, and customers with debts on their account.
- Cash Drawer Reconciliation - Costume Vision now allows cash drawer sessions to be created and maintained
flexibly throughout the day. Features include cash float drops,
cash pickups, session close reconciliation summary, full reporting
of all sessions from the past week, and reporting of all users
active during a given session along with the percentage of total
session activity attributable to each user.
Promotions and special offers
- Frequent Renter Points - Costume Vision allows the automatic assignment of points for rentals made
- each time a customer rents a title or makes a sale you can award
points. The customer may then redeem these points to gain free
rentals or products. A great feature for rewarding regular and/or loyal customers!
- Day of week promotions - offer your
customers special promotions for different days of the week by
setting rental prices as a percentage of the normal price for
each day.
Other features
- Opening days - Days when the store
is closed may be specified.
- Message center - daily messages can
be displayed on the main program screen for you or your staff;
these may be reminders, promotions, or anything else required.
- Flexible tax configuration - Whether
your country has a one tax system where sales tax is added to
the price displayed, a one tax system where sales tax is included
in the price displayed or if need to accommodate a two sales tax
system, Costume Vision can be flexibly configured to meet your
needs.
- Database backup facilities - Costume Vision allows you to quickly and easily save a backup copy
of your database to removable media (CD-R, CD-RW, Zip drive, etc)
or your hard drive, helping to protect your valuable data.
- Receipts - If desired, sales
and rentals receipts may be printed and may be fully personalized to include rental terms and/or special messages to customers.
- Receipt printer support - Costume Vision contains 4 receipt formats which allow use of either a standard
printer or a range of specialized POS receipt printers, such as
the Epson TM-T88III.
- Barcode scanner support - Barcode
readers (scanners) can be used in all relevant sections of the
program - please note that a barcode scanner is not required to
use the program.
- Touch screen support - Costume Vision supports all major brands of touch screen should you prefer
to use this type of technology.
- Cash drawer support - For those customers
who wish to use a cash drawer without purchasing a specialist
receipt printer, both Parallel and Serial interface drawers are
supported. Support for most major manufacturers drawers is provided
if you are using a receipt printer interface.
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