Pricing Software

The Mac-Royall / PC-Royall pricing programme is a sophisticated piece of software which is available for both PC's and Apple Mac and in both imperial and metric.

This software has been developed over recent years by Mike Royall who is a qualified Guild Commended Framer (GCF) of many years standing and a nationally respected figure in the UK framing industry. He has used his wealth of framing experience and extensive business experience elsewhere to come up with an invaluable aid for the modern framing / gallery business. The overall application software used is a commercial package called "Filemaker Pro" which is a relational database programme. The pricing programme has been written within Filemaker Pro and it will run on all computers regardless of whether they are PC's or Apple Macs. A demo vesion of the programme is available for a small cost (full details below) should you wish to "try before you buy". One of the major selling points of this programme is it's ease of modification - if its not quite the way you want it, then simply modify it so that it suits your business exactly.

Please remember that with almost all other pricing programmes on the market "what you see is what you get" - with this programme if what you see is not what you want, then change it.

We are constantly changing and modifying the one that we use in our own business - making amendments to layouts, deleting a section that we no longer use etc. The ease of modification is so simple and as you get to know and understand the full power of this software you will be able to make more radical and complex changes to it.

Alternatively if you are really still a bit of a 'dinosaur' when it comes to computers then just use it the way it is!

Remember that not only will this software impress your customers but it will also give you an advantage over your competitors - many of whom will still be using rather unprofessional looking pricing charts! The programme was designed to enable even the slowest of operators to be up and running within minutes of switching the machine on and quite rightly can be termed "user friendly".

It is entirely mouse operated and uses point and click, pull down/ pop up menus and is fully automated wherever possible. It also has a hierarchy of passwords built in to it to ensure that your new sales assistant cannot delete all your records by mistake! In fact the only time that you'll need to type anything is after the customer has agreed the price and you need to enter his name and address - even this part of the programme has been automated so that for any existing customer all you will need to do is to enter their telephone number, click a button and their address will be filled in for you. Being "two fingered typists" ourselves it was in our own interest to make the whole process as simple as possible.

There's no limit to the number of records it holds - it prints job sheets, is able to produce monthly and annual summaries and it has "search and find" capabilities. Because of a unique method of what we call "factoring" every aspect of the price can be configured and modified to exactly suit your own business - no matter where in the country you live or at what level you want to pitch your price.

If you live near to Bristol then it's a good idea for you to visit us to see the programme in action - only then will you be able to fully appreciate just how sophisticated this piece of software is. Alternatively a fully working demo version of the software is available at £25 (deducted from the full cost should you decide to buy.) The price of the programme is £275 (no vat) and comes with a three month telephone support helpline (effective from date of purchase). Please be advised that support can only be given to areas specifically related to the pricing programme and not to any other aspect of your computer's operation such as file management.