Garb 3.0
Garb
3.0 will shortly be ready for release and includes significant improvements over
version 2 including the following…
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Security: You can set security for each user to control their access to or permission to edit sensitive data.
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Retail Sales: Sales items can be individually and specifically added to any booking and the total cost will be shown on the Hire Invoice. You can also record sales made without an accompanying hire agreement and optionally track sales item stock levels. Sale items can then be reviewed by date period to aid future business planning.
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Barcodes: Barcode functionality can be optionally included in Garb in order to speed entry and lookup for costumes, customers, sales items, bookings and locations.
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Locations: Keep track of where a costume is at any given time and where it should usually be stored. Locations can be managed on up to three levels so you could specify a particular rail in a room in a building as well as other addresses such as the dry cleaners. Particular locations can be designated as the main collection or return points for ease of use. Look-up costumes in any given location to take stock checks.
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Bookings: Choose to book by individual calendar (as before) or by list. The list option enables you to select the booking’s hire dates just once, after which the availability of each costume you add is automatically checked. This is easier and much quicker if you frequently hire out more than a single costume per booking.
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Look-up Bookings: You can now find a booking by its reference number, customer, costume or date parameters. Print e.g. summary list of all bookings made in a day.
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Price Rate Bands: If you choose, you can now assign a costume to a price band instead of giving it an individual custom rate. Bands can be more easily updated if you wish to make price changes.
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Rates by Time Period: You can set different rates by time period to individual costumes or to price bands e.g. a reduced rate for a longer hire period.
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Customer Discounts: Offer your loyal customers a % discount on hires or sales. The discount will then be automatically applied to the total.
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Payments: Payments can be split into instalments and tracked. Payments by date can then be reviewed.
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Backup: Prompt for automatic backup of database.
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Extract customer contact details: Names & addresses can be extracted to an Excel spreadsheet to be used for mailings etc.
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Some old availability records can be deleted to speed up searches. Records of hire start and end dates are unaffected.
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Check for potential problems with duplicate names or codes.