Masterpiece Solutions is now shipping
the new generation of our software, which we have named Arete.
Our design objective was NOT to change all
of the screens so that you would have to learn a new system.
In fact, wherever possible, we have left the screens the same.
You may see some extra fields, as with the contact, transaction,
and inventory screens, but you should maintain a system with
as few screen changes as possible. We don't want you or your
staff to have to learn a new program.
On the other hand, this version does have
some major updates behind the scenes. For example: It is optimized
to use the latest Microsoft SQL Express data engine. It has
new user customizable fields. Almost all of the screens can
now be resized to accommodate larger monitors. It supports
new credit card and gift card processors.
We will naturally continue to improve the
product. As in the past, we will provide most updates to our
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ADDITIONAL NOTE FIELDS and LONGER
FIELDS
Additional Notes fields on the Contact
Screen allow you to enter any type of information you require.
For each new field, you can set up lists of common words
of phrases. Of course, you can rename the fields.
We have also extended the following fields to make the longer
(the number in brackets is the new length of the field:
title (20) firstname (30) lastname (60) company (120) spouse
(120) email (120)
Note: With this change, you can now
enter multiple email addresses for a contact.
Just separate each one with a semicolon!
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ITEM IMAGE ADDED
TO FIND ITEM SCREEN
Because this version supports larger screens,
we now have space on the form to add an image to the Find
Item screen,
as well as additional fields that can be displayed within
the grid.
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MORE FIELDS AND
IMAGES ON THE ITEM PAGE
Like on the contact screen, we have added
three custom fields for you to use on the Item screen.
You can set the labels for the new fields to be anything
you like. We have also added support for additional images.
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MEMBERSHIPS
The system now supports memberships, and
has several new reports relating to members.
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CHOOSE SCREEN
TO BEGIN TRANSACTION
To accommodate the new membership features,
the system now allows you to begin a new sale on the client
screen instead of the item screen. This means that once
you enter a member name, the system can
automatically discount any items that the member purchases.
This is also useful for any "regular" clients,
wholesale buyers, dealers, and designers that may receive
a discount on each sale.
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UNLIMTED TAX RATES
For galleries and artists that have to
track lots and lots of different taxing details, the system
will now allow an unlimited number of different tax rate
details.
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NEW CREDIT CARD
PROCESSOR AND GIFT CARDS
The new version continues to support both
ICVerify and X-Charge. However, we have also added support
for Merchant Warehouse credit card processing, and Smart-Transaction
Gift Cards.
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FILTER
FIND SCREENS FOR CONTACTS, TRANSACTIONS, TITLES, ITEMS
When you do a FIND and set up a filter,
the system can remember that filter as you scan through the
items, contacts, or transactions. For example, you do a FIND
for all of the bronzes in the gallery - and double-click to
open the first bronze item. If filtering is turned on, then
when you click the next button, the system will go to the
next bronze, not simply the next item in the inventory.
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EXPANDED
TITLE FIELDS
The length of the title of a piece has been
extended from 60 characters to 120.
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BIRTH/DEATH
DATE FIELDS ADDED TO CONTACT FORM
New fields have been added to help you track
birthdays for clients, or life dates for artists.
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RESIZABLE
SCREENS
Almost all of the forms have been made resizable
in order to accommodate larger monitors. In many cases, the
larger screens also support the display of additional fields.
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ALLOW
EMPTY EDITION SEPARATOR ON SETTINGS & TRANSACTIONS
For those of you that use separators in
your scancodes (i.e. ABC-123.xx2) the system now allows you
to turn the auto feature off. Previously, you could not put
both a dash ( - ) and a slash ( / ) in the scancode field.
Now you can!
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ON
CONTACT, ADD *** TO NOT CHANGE CASE
The system has an automatic feature to convert
information to upper and lower case. But some times you may
want to force the system to use a particular case. For example,
suppose you want to enter a company name like " designed for
ME " (that is, without capitalizing the first word. You can
now enter "designed for ME***" and Masterpiece will leave
the case as it is, and strip off the *** for you.
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PRICE
CARDS ABLE TO PRINT ARTIST'S CITY AND STATE
Several galleries have requested the ability
to print and artist's city/state on the price/wall cards.
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OUTSTANDING
LAYAWAY AMOUNTS SHOWN AT STARTUP
The system now has the ability to bring
up a listing of all clients with payments that is due. From
here, you can export the data to several different formats.
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UPDATE
PRICES BY % -BY ARTIST OR LOCATION
New form is provided on the tools menu to
update prices (up or down) by a percentage - by artist or
location .i.e. increase all items for Russel Chisolm in location
stock by 5%.
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ON
CONTACT SCREEN YOU CAN NOW ASSIGN A CONTACT TO A LOCATION
For businesses with multiple stores, you
can now manually assign a contact to a store. The system will
continue to also attempt to automatically assign a contact
to a store.
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ABILITY
TO SET MAX IMAGE HEIGHT FOR WEB UPDATE
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SHOW STAFF USER LEVEL IN TOP
TITLE BAR
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EMAIL SUBJECT & MESSAGE
RECORDED AUTOMATICALLY AS A COMPLETED ACTION ITEM
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SHOW CO ID, VERSION, BUILD ON
LOGIN SCREEN
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Some work was done on Object Permissions
that should make the delete buttons on transactions, and tabs
on forms, able to be set with permissions. The process of actually
setting the permissions should be smoother also.
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