Clarity FREE EDITION is here!

Clarity Free Edition is finally here! If you are looking for a simple quoting package that is completely free download Clarity today.

Not only can you simple quotes but you can also delivery notes, works orders, invoices, MIS-reporting, contacts management and an activities diary! Download today from www.clarityfree.com

Clarity FREE EDITION is here!

Clarity Free Edition is finally here! If you are looking for a simple quoting package that is completely free download Clarity today.

Not only can you simple quotes but you can also delivery notes, works orders, invoices, MIS-reporting, contacts management and an activities diary! Download today from www.clarityfree.com

Latest Edition of the Clarity Newsletter now available to view online!

Well, that time has come round again and it is time for a bit more news about Clarity. We have just uploaded the latest newsletter to our website so please click here to view

Clarity Newsletter Issue 4

Clarity FREE EDITION to be launched

NEW this year at Sign & Digital UK, we are giving away a single user version of Clarity completely FREE OF CHARGE. This cut down version of Clarity Professional Business Management Software will operate a small business from enquiry to invoice in a few clicks AND it links and sends invoices to Sage Instant accounts. This is truly FREE CRM and Quotation Management software for the small business from the sign and digital print market’s leading MIS supplier.

ALSO NEW this year; A NEW artwork archiving and referencing system helps users across the business catalogue and find job related artwork in a few clicks. A NEW suite of sign price calculation tools that are clearer, quicker, easier and faster to produce the most accurate estimates on the market. These tools feed the estimated production times into the optional production scheduling module but at the very least you can be assured of the most accurate job costing to make sure you make profits on every job.

NEW for our larger clients, Clarity has a brand new Production Scheduling module released at a price point that is unprecedented in the market. Scheduling jobs has never been easier or more accurate to ensure on-time customer deliveries every time. Clarity satisfies all of the administration requirements of a Sign and Print business, assuring our users that they stay in front of the competition and continue to make money in these difficult times.

Come and view a no obligation demonstration and take away Clarity FREE EDITION at the Sign & Digital UK Exhibition in April to get you started or a FREE trial version of Clarity Professional. We will be on Stand D70,  see you there!

Clarity Pro to be demonstrated at Sign & Digital UK 09

Making sure all of your jobs are profitable, Clarity Professional is the most accurate and fastest sign price calculation software processing jobs from enquiry to invoice in one system. Combined with these outstanding efficiency benefits it is not hard to see why Clarity is the UK’s number one Sign and Print estimating software. Clarity is being demonstrated in full on stand D70 at Sign & Digital UK 2009.

 Centralised information provides huge benefits; traceable quotes and jobs, easy repeat and similar jobs, tracking of all customer conversations and correspondence, new business generation functions for e-shots and marketing campaign management. Jobs can be processed from quote through to invoice with outstanding speed and flexibility covering the sign and print industries requirements in one easy to use software solution.

NEW this year, Clarity has a brand new production scheduling module released at a price point that is unprecedented in the market. Scheduling jobs has never been easier or more accurate to ensure on-time customer deliveries every time. A NEW artwork archiving and referencing system helps users across the business catalogue and find job related artwork in a few clicks. And further, a NEW suite of internal calculation tools are clear, quick and fast to produce the most accurate estimates on the market. These tools feed the timing for the optional production scheduling module but at the very least you can be assured of the most accurate job costing to make sure you make profits on every job. Clarity satisfies all aspects of a Sign and Print businesses administration requirements, assuring our users that they stay in front of the competition and continue to make money in these difficult times. Come and view a no obligation demonstration and take away a FREE trial version of Clarity Professional

Clarity Calc Wizards take Estimating to a New Level

For many digital printers calculating costs for a job can be a headache. With wastage, margins, labour and machine running costs to consider, quoting can take far too long and become extremely complicated, running the risk of undercharging for a job.

Touch Systems have developed the Clarity Professional Calc Wizards, making accuracy of costs clearly visible while allowing complex calculations become easier than ever before. The Premium Calc Wizards are ‘plug-in’ tools that calculate total costs. These can be configured specifically within your costs in order to arrive at a very accurate cost of manufacture and price to the customer. Nesting calculations have also been developed within the software for material optimization to minimise waste. Having been designed specifically for the digital print industry, Roll-Feed and Direct-to-sheet wizards have also been included.

We understand that businesses are cutting costs and tightening their belts, but one great benefit of the Calc Wizards is that only one licence needs to be purchased, which can then be installed on each machine that has Clarity! They have been designed to be easy to configure and quick to use, giving the user the ability to pull materials and labour rates from Price Lists within Clarity. Quotes are simple to produce and no specialist knowledge is required.

To find out more about the Premium Calc Wizards and Clarity Professional call 0121 248 2448 today or log onto http://www.clarityprofessional.com

Powerful CRM Digital Print Calculation Tool to be launched

Despite the current recession, Digital Print seems to be booming in the UK. We are always keen to know how our customers are benefitting from Clarity Professional and if there are any ways in which we can improve the software to meet their needs. As the demand for Digital Print increases so does the demand for software that can cope with the speed at which our customers need to work. We are constantly developing Clarity and have recently added many new features to the Digital Print Calculators, making them even more powerful and efficient for the user.  

We believe that the improvements we have made to this part of the software will enhance the speed at which digital printers can quote and work. Users can now accurately calculate materials based on the size of the graphics and how much wastage there will be. The Calculation tools will also decide on the best fit for the graphics when printing and give an extremely accurate costing and profit. This information can then be pulled through the software to Production.

For more information regarding the Calc Wizards and Clarity Professional please visit www.claritypro.com  or email sarah.thompson@touchsystems.co.uk

Clarity Professional CRM Weather Report

As a wave of bad weather sweeps the nation – Reports of an 80ft high snowman built in one business estate’s car park circulate in the Shirley area.

 

A spokesman failed to deny or confirm the reports, but provided this photo citing possible proof.

 

Clarity Professional Success Stories

“In view of the scale and frequent complexity of the work undertaken and the need for total reliability on delivery, we required a business management software programme that would enable us to implement and monitor each and every project from the time of acceptance to the date of invoice. Designed for small-to-medium-sized companies like ours, Clarity Professional has proved the perfect solution. The software provides us with an immediate and readily accessible view of our entire business and enables information on each and every customer or project to be at our fingertips in an instant.” Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director of SignTech

“Having investigated a number of options we made the change to Clarity. The first thing that struck all our staff was how easy to use it is, for those fairly computer literate the help section is clear enough to describe how to carry out most procedures, or to jog your memory.  If this doesn’t work and for those less able then help is always available at the end of a telephone line. Would we recommend this software to other companies – yes we’ve already done so.  Does it translate to different industries, yes very easily, can I write down in one paragraph what we like about it and the benefits to our company – No.” Sue Henry, IS Group Ltd

“It did not take much persuading to purchase Clarity and since its implementation staff have commented upon how much more efficient they are in administering day to day tasks. In addition to providing a cost effective solution that meets our business needs, it has also  provided an increase in efficiency. This has led to the additional bonus of keeping our staffing levels under control as the volume of our business grew. Because of the success of the Clarity System, our suster company Euroduct, a manufacturing based company. has also adopted the same business system,with additional modules for production scheduling.” H M Mahoney, Advanced Smoke Technology

CRM – Worthwhile or Worthless?

There is always the ongoing debate within business as to whether CRM is worthwhile investing in or just an expensive tool that companies can simply do without. Small businesses can often feel daunted by taking on software, not only because of the initial or ongoing costs, but the change in business processes and mindset. From speaking to many clients we are only too aware that as a business grows it becomes increasingly more important to streamline your business activity to maintain long lasting customer relationships and lighten the admin load. Afterall we are all in business to make money not spend our time filing, re-writing quotations and scratching our heads trying to work out if what we are doing is profitable.

 

Back in December 2008 we interviewed a Clarity Professional user for our newsletter. Award winning Sign Company, Sign Box had tried various business software to provide management and accounting solutions but found that staff were constantly duplicating information and needed a more efficient approach. When referring to Clarity Mark Bartlett, Managing Director stated “The ability to track an enquiry to order, through production to delivery and onto invoice, an all in one system has proved an invaluable tool.”

 

The benefits of CRM can be numerous if you choose the right system from the right company. From contact management to business management, your chosen application can put you one step ahead of the competition. Mark commented “In order to grow our business we knew that we had to have more strategic marketing. Clarity has provided us with a clean database of customers that we can regularly email a monthly newsletter, instantly launch new products to and update with the latest innovations on our eshop.”

 

When asking Mark how implementing a CRM system has improved his business he responded “Fully utilising the Pricing Wizard, enables us to maintain GP and this has been evidenced from our quarterly management accounts showing a constant quarter on quarter figure; Something difficult to achieve when signs are constructed in so many different materials. We have finished ’08 some 10% up on last year which was in turn 47% up on the previous year.”

 

The debate may still be raging, but one cannot deny that a system like Clarity can clearly help bring success to a company wiling to change their usual way of working, making them professional and profitable.

 

If you would like to read the full interview with Mark please click here