Consignor Tracking - ConsignPro tracks information about
your consignors including: name, address, phone numbers, and consignor balances.
Consignor numbers can be any number you assign, or let ConsignPro assign numbers for
you! Consignor lookups can be done by either consignor number or name. |
| Inventory Tracking
- ConsignPro tracks information about your consigned and store-owned inventory. Data
items include: item number, type, description, color, size (all drop-down lists), rack
price, lowest price, split percent, received date, expire date, store cost, tag color,
markdown date, and original price. Inventory can be accessed either by item number
or via the consignor lookup feature. |
| Store-owned items
- Purchase some of your inventory outright? ConsignPro has no trouble tracking items
you purchase and resell in your store. Simple click on the "Store owned"
button and ConsignPro will record the cost of the item and not split the sale amount when
the item is sold. |
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| Complete Point-of-Sale
- ConsignPro's POS screen allows you to quickly retrieve and sell items off the database
with just the item number or barcode scanner. An item's price can be reduced or
changed during the posting process. ConsignPro automatically calculates sales taxes
and prints a sales receipt for your customer. |
| Automatic Markdowns
- ConsignPro can markdown consigned items for up to three periods using different markdown
percentages for each. Items are automatically marked down during the daily shut-down
process based on their received date. |
| Tag color Markdowns
- Having a weekly sale where all "green tagged" items are 20% off?
ConsignPro can do that! Simply specify tag color when adding an item and then tell
the system about your sale terms! Turn this feature on and off (for up to 5 tag
colors!) as you have special seasonal sales throughout the year. |
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| Tag or Label Printing -
Never handwrite a tag again! ConsignPro has more label and tag styles than all our
competitors combined! The system can print on either dot-matrix, thermal, ink-jet,
or laser-jet style printers. For a complete description of every tag style we offer
(complete with pictures and printer types), visit our tags page! |
| Consignor Checks
- Never handwrite a check again! Pay all your consignors at once using our automatic
check printing feature. Checks can be printed for all consignors with balances over
an amount you specify, or select individual consignors to be paid. Checks print on
four different (very common) check formats and automatic consignor statements tell
consignors what they're being paid for! |
| Customer Wish List
- Have a customer that wants to know when a new baby crib comes in? Save the
customers wish in our wish list and then run matches against your available
inventory. A wish report shows matched wishes complete with the customers phone
number. Pay for your new software with just the selling feature alone! |
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| Layaway tracking &
reporting - ConsignPro can track both the initial and additional layaway
deposits. A layaway receipt or report can be given to the customer which includes
the amount remaining. Specify your layaway terms and they appear on the bottom of
the layaway report automatically! |
| Login Security
- A special login screen controls access to the ConsignPro system. Set access level
privileges for each employee who uses the system based on their seniority with your store.
This prevents "clerks" from accessing destructive features within the
system (deleting consignors, inventory, etc) or viewing sensitive reports (income
statement, sales activity, etc). |
| Financial Reporting
- ConsignPro has many reports that tell you about the financial health of your store.
Sales Activity reports and an Income Statement tell you about store revenues and
expenses. Reports can be created for any time period you select, or pick from one of
our many pre-defined reporting periods. |
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| Easiest to Use screens
- More store owners looking for software choose ConsignPro for it's easy to use screens.
Our Main Menu design allows for quick and efficient
access to every feature in the system with just a click or two. New users find the
system simple to learn and navigate. Said one recent customer "even my 65 and
70 year old volunteers have mastered the system in just a week!". For an
overview of our screens view our Samples! |
| Quick-Add item posting
- Adding software to an existing store but don't want to add all your items to the
database before you start using ConsignPro? No problem. ConsignPro allows you
to post an item without first adding it to the database. Simply enter an
"n" for "new" on the "Make Sale" screen and ConsignPro
prompts you for the consignor number (or name) and item price. The item gets sold,
the consignors balance updated, its that easy! |
| Canadian Ready
- ConsignPro supports both the provincial and GST tax rates used within Canada. We
have dozens of Canadian customers using the system - call today for a reference or two! |
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| Per-item Charges
- Need to pass cleaning or delivery charges along to the consignor? Simply enter a
per-item charge when adding the item and ConsignPro deducts this amount from the
consignors portion when the item is sold. |
| Flexible Buyers Fees
- ConsignPro can add a fee (that you specify) to all printed inventory tags or labels.
The buyers fee is paid by the buyer, but subtracted from the sale amount before the
split with the consignor. Buyers fees in ConsignPro can be set as either a flat
dollar amount or percentage of its "Rack Price". The consignor is
usually unaware of this buyers fee, which is not shown on any consignor reports or
statements. Said one store owner "Last year I made $15,000 on buyers fees
alone!" |
| Receipt printer support
- Attach a Star receipt printer to your computer and ConsignPro will print a 3" wide
customer receipt when a sale is made - just like your cash register! View Star receipt printer. |
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| Scanning Gun support
- ConsignPro prints barcodes on your inventory tags or labels, you scan them with our
laser-style scanning gun -- posting sales to ConsignPro couldn't be faster or more
accurate! View scanning gun picture. |
| Barcoded inventory tags
- The ConsignPro system will put barcodes on most of the styles of tags
and labels. The barcode can be scanned using our bar code scanner when you post
an item on our "Make Sale" screen. |
| Cash Drawer support
- ConsignPro can automatically open an all-steel cash drawer when you make a sale.
The drawer works in conjunction with our receipt printer and replaces the need for a cash
register! View cash drawer. |
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| Thermal tag/label
support - Like the crisp, clean look of thermal printing? ConsignPro
supports tags and labels and works with the Eltron Orion thermal printer. The
printer is brand new from Eltron and prints fast and quiet! View
Orion printer. |
| Use ANY printers
- Attached to the printer you already have? Chances are excellent that you'll be
able to use it with ConsignPro. Our system works well with 99% of dot-matrix,
ink-jet, and laser-jet printers. With our new "tag sheets" you can now
print inventory tags using an ink-jet or laser-jet printer - a first in this business
brought to you by Visual Horizons! |
| Built FOR Windows 95 or
98 - There are three types of PC software in the world: DOS, 16-bit,
and 32-bit. DOS was the 1970's. 16-bit was the 1980's. 32-bit is the
most current. ConsignPro was written as a 32-bit program which means it works the
BEST with Windows 95, 98 or 2000 (all 32-bit operating systems). While this doesn't
matter much to you, it does to your computer! Do yourself a favor and don't install
70's DOS technology on your new computer - its like putting snow tires on a Corvette! |
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| Automatic data backup
- ConsignPro backs your database up automatically to disk at the end of each day.
Other programs require you to have and learn your own backup utility. Our backup is
integrated into the software making backups a breeze! |
| End-of-day reporting
- Wondering what today's sales were like or how much should be in the cash drawer?
ConsignPro prints daily activity reports during the shutdown process that show you just
that! Select or de-select the reports you want to see. |
| Auto move expired items
- Want to automatically move consigned items to the store account when they expire?
ConsignPro can do that - and even mark the item down when it's moved. Now when the
item sells after it expires 100% of the profits are yours! This feature itself can
recover your software investment in a month or two. |
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| Auto donate expired
items - ConsignPro can automatically change the status of expired items to
"Donated". This saves you the time of changing each item status
manually. Reports of items recently "Donated" can be run so the items can
be pulled from your store racks. |
| Owner assigned messages
- Have a special receipt, layaway, or contract message? Key these messages into our
Maintain Store screen and they'll automatically appear on customer output - talk about a
customized solution for your store! |
| Auto price suffixes
- Routinely end all your prices with 99 cents? ConsignPro can do this for you!
Just type in the price suffix you'd like to assign and the system will add it to
any whole dollar amount you key in when adding an item. For example, add an item and
make the rack price "4" and the system will change it to "$4.99" when
you tab off the Rack Price field! |
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| Multi-level consignor
splits - Specify split percentages at the Store, Consignor, and Item
levels. This, for example, gives you the flexibility to specify 50% at the store
level, 60% for a consignor (beaus they're family?), and 70% on a particular item (because
its high priced?). Whatever split percentage is on the item when it sells becomes
the consignors portion. |
| Wholesale price tracking
- Have a consignor who's a dealer? ConsignPro can split the profit on an item above
the wholesale cost of that item. For example, a dealer consigns with you an antique
vase with a wholesale cost of $200. The vase sells for $300 in your store and the
consignors account gets credited by $250 ($200 cost + 50% of $100 profit). The 50%
could be any split percentage of course. |
| Inventory
SmartPricing™ - Wish you could transfer the pricing knowledge in your
head into the computer so store helpers could price items as accurately as you?
SmartPricing in ConsignPro allows you to do just that. Now you can add a suggested
price to any item "description". When a clerk selects that item
description when adding an item - viola - the item price defaults to your "suggested
price" - this of course can be adjusted based on the condition of the item!
Just another time saving feature brought to you by Visual Horizons. |
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| Customer tracking /
reporting - Want to do a special mailing to your best customers, or those you
haven't seen in a while? ConsignPro can track not only who your customers are, but how
much they're spending and how often they're visiting your store! You can then
run reports or mailing labels based on this information to target specific groups and
INCREASE YOUR SALES! |
| To-screen reporting
- Tired of printing every report to your printer? ConsignPro can print 95% of its
reports directly to your screen allowing you to find the information you desire without
wasting alot of paper! A simple CLOSE button on the bottom of the report window
returns you to where you left off. |
| Mailing labels
- Produce Consignor or Customer mailing labels on Avery label stock right from your
ink-jet or laser-jet printer. Announce special sales throughout the year and never
handwrite an address again! |
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| QuickBooks interface
- Post your store's monthly financial activity to the leading program for small business
accounting. ConsignPro will "export" financial activity for any time
period you select or remind you where you left off from your last "export".
Exported data can then be quickly "imported" into the QuickBooks program. |
| Quicken interface
- Printing checks in ConsignPro but want to update your check register in Quicken?
No problem! ConsignPro will export detailed check transactions to the Quicken program -
one transaction for each payee. Now your financial program and your consignment
program talk to one another! |
| Account Activity
Tracking - Every transaction that affects a consignors balance is logged by
the system into our "Account Activity" screen. Now when a consignor asks
"how did my balance get to be $219.35 ?", you can click the "Account
Activity" button and either show them their transactions on the screen or print the
screen to your printer. |
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| Consignor Contracts
- Handwriting your contracts today? Don't. ConsignPro can print customized
contracts for each consignor you add to the system with flexible contract wording end
dates that you specify! Contract print directly to your attached report printer. |
| Wholesale tags &
labels - This is a no-brainer. Our competitors buy tags from
wholesalers, mark them up, and re-sell them to you. We give you the
name and toll-free number of the wholesaler and send you directly to them! We sell
software, they sell tags - it's not much simpler (or cost-effective) than that. Of
course if you like paying an extra 30% - 40% for your tags we can direct you to our
competitors homepage! :) |
| $8 per month Tech
Support - You get three free months of support with us (best in the
business). After that, you can elect to purchase an Annual Maintenance Plan for $100
(one-year coverage). At just over $8 per month, this support plan is the best in the
business because it not only entitles you to technical support but also free version
updates via our website! |
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| Free Version Updates
- Buy our Annual Maintenance Plan ($100 / year) and download all the version updates we
have for free. Our competitors release new versions on-average once a year. We
release new versions - complete with your suggestions - every other month! |
| Updates via Internet
- Never has grabbing our latest version been easier. Simply visit our online ConsignPro Update page and download our latest changes in minutes.
The page is complete with instructions and it can actually email you automatically
when a new update is ready! |
| Split payment type
tracking - Need to record two methods of payment when making a sale? No
problem for ConsignPro. We've just added this feature at the request of several
store owners! |
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| Quick-view item status
- Another new feature which allows you to view the counts of items a consignor has - right
from the consignor screen! Find out how many items are available, sold, donated,
returned, etc. with just a single click! |
| Item & consignor
notes - Enter unlimited notes about an item or a consignor into the
ConsignPro system. Notes could comments about the consignor (ex. don't accept
checks) or a more detailed description of the item. |
| Data input helpers
- Several screens in the system support input helper. An input helper is the system
making your life easier by entering information for you. For example, when adding a
new consignor the city, state, zip code, and area code are automatically defaulted to your
store's information. Also, no need to capitalize or punctuate correctly, simply tab
off a field and ConsignPro does it for you! Entering a date and don't want to bother
with slashes (ex. 9/15/99), no problem - enter any six digits (ex. 091599) and ConsignPro
will make it a date for you. Tired of using the decimal point when entering prices?
Type in "199" and ConsignPro changes the price to $1.99 for you.
While the system won't enter information for you, it comes pretty close sometimes! |
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| Void / Returns
processing - ConsignPro handles customer returns with ease and debits the
consignor account for the returned item. Customer returns are handled through our
Lookup Invoice screen. |
| Consignor Statements
- Whether done by looking up the consignor or automatically through our check printing
process, ConsignPro can print statements for your consignors with ease. Never flip
through a file folder again, simply hit "Print Activity" and hand the report to
your consignor! Any activity on a consignors account is shown on the statement. |
| User-defined pick lists
- Sell what you want and customize ConsignPro. Our user-defined pick lists (Type,
Description, Color, and Size) allow you to tell the system exactly what you're selling in
your store. From marine parts, to bridal fashions, to furniture, this system is
flexible enough to sell just about anything on consignment! |
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| Credit-card fee tracking
- Setting up the payment type pick list allows you to tell the system which payment types
are credit cards (ex. Visa, MasterCard, etc) and assign a percentage to that card type.
When that payment type is used during the point-of-sale, ConsignPro records the
credit card processing expense and reports it on the Income Statement! |
| Lost tag finder
- Tag fall off an item? Find the item quickly and easily using our "Inventory
Lookup Report". This report allows you to lookup any item using any
combination of: consignor number, type, description, color, size, received
date, expired date, price, item number range, and item status. The report
combinations are almost unlimited and this is truly our most flexible report. |
| 30-day free demo copy
- We wouldn't want you to spend you money without a test-drive so we can either mail you
our complete demo copy or you can download it yourself on our ConsignPro
demo page! |
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| Aged-inventory reports
- Looking for those items that are expired but still in "Available" status?
Our aged inventory report can show you those items that need to be pulled from your
racks and have their status changed to either "Donated" or "Returned". |
| Sales Reporting
- Two custom sales reports show you sale in your store sorted by date, invoice number, or
consignor. You can select the start and end dates to report sales for any period
you'd like. Sales tax collected is also displayed on the report to make tax time a
breeze! |
| Quick Returns feature
- Have a rack full of items you'd like to change the status on? Use our "Quick
Returns" feature to change the status of your items using just the item number.
Have a barcode scanner connected and this becomes a snap! |
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| Networkable
- Want one computer in the front of your store for point-of-sale and another in the back
for entering item and printing tags? Install a network copy of ConsignPro onto your
second computer and network them for true data sharing. Enter an item on the back
computer and sell it in the front instantly! Both computers share the same
ConsignPro database. |
| Half-price network
copies - For network copies we've reduced our price by 60%. Buy our
first copy at the regular price and get network copies for $295 each. One network
copy is required for each network PC you'll be installing ConsignPro on. One of our
superstores in Nevada uses 5 copies of ConsignPro!! For more info,
click Networking ConsignPro. |
| Free home copy!
- Hate staying late at your store? Simply take your ConsignPro database home on disk
and restore it onto your home computer running ConsignPro. Make all the changes
you'd like but remember to bring that disk back to the store in the morning! |
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| 30-day moneyback
guarantee - We'd like you to be completely satisfied with your
purchase. If you're not within the first 30-days of purchase just tell us.
We'll either try to correct the situation to your satisfaction or refund your money in
full. We don't want dissatisfied customers - EVER! |
| Global fee assignment
- Assign an annual, semi-annual, or monthly fee to all of your consignor accounts using
our "Consignor Fees" utility found under "Tools" on our Main Menu.
You can assign fees to all consignors, new consignors, or consignors with a certain
consignor "code" assigned to them by you. |
| Markdowns on tags
- Print your markdown dates and new prices right on your item tickets. ConsignPro
takes the customer guesswork out of pricing and a number of our tag styles support up to
three markdown periods! |
| Consignor credits at POS
- Have a customer who's also a consignor? Use their account credit to pay for a
purchase right on our Amount Due screen! Lookup the consignor by either number or
last name and use any portion of their balance to pay for the purchase. |
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