Hi
Rick, Ex software engineer perked my ears up
Juan, my ears perked even more when you mentioned Access
For the past 15 years I have developed a program in Access for my studio. Motivated by there not being any programs which did what I wanted (at the time), I slowly learned it and fine tuned it for our business. Being as how the program was developed through my 'learning curve' there are areas that need to be cleaned up if it was ever turned into a commercial product.
The program currently handles ...
-Sales and invoicing, with one payment capability for multiple invoices
-Job info
-Customer relationships, mail / email lists
-Card types (customer, vender, wedding vendor, etc.)
-Project (marketing and planning) with involved customers and marketed to customers
-Customer info, multiple email per customer, birthday, anniversaries, quotes, gift certificates, referral tracking, children, contact log
-phone messages
-payables and check book stuff, able to balance checkin and credit card accounts
-year end reporting
-frame calculator (find price based on width of frame and custom size of frame)
-Production tracking
-Event vender referral tracking (customer feedback per event)
-Reports for marketing feedback are partly developed , but need more work
These are the highlights, I am sure there is more I am forgetting
The program is finely to the point where I think it is salable with some clean up and guidance from someone with software sales / database development experience. The database is normalized with naming conventions used and has worked great for all of our accounting needs for over 5 years to give you a feel of where we are on the development curve - I don't mind doing the clean up to turn it into a commercial product, but not without partnering with folks who are industry professionals - since I have developed this as a hobby and I am not 'in the business' - but I need to know that whoever I work has the resources to really collaborate ...
If that all makes sense and you are interested in the idea of working with me on this, please give me a wave ;-)
Thanks,
Roger
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