What's new

1. Greatly enhanced flexibility and options in the reports, especially the Lists and Mailing labels report, now called the Business Building report. 
2. You can print your logo on your thermal invoices. 
3. You can process invoices for more than one customer at a time. This means in the middle of doing one invoice, you can serve another customer without losing your place in the first invoice.
4. Put a partial payment on an invoice. This is great for taking deposits on leather cleaning or for customers who are only paying for part of their order. 
5. Use CleanSuite to print lot tags. 
6. Type IH (Invoice History) in the Command Line for a complete history of the on-screen invoice. 
7. Shirt starch preferences are printed on the garment tags. 
8. In conjunction with a program called PC Charge, you can pay invoices by credit card from within CleanSuite. The customer's credit card slip prints out on the same printer you use for your invoices, which eliminates both the credit card terminal and the credit card receipt printer. (Available only in the US and Canada. Debit card processing not yet available in Canada) 
9. You can add unlimited notes on an invoice.  
10. You can add unlimited notes to any item on an invoice. 
11. Add a note to a quick ticket before printing the ticket. 
12. When you add an item for both cleaning and repair, the program asks if the repair item is an extra piece of clothing. This keeps your piece count accurate. 
13. The batch payment process has many new powerful features:
    • It requires fewer keystrokes and is easier to use.
    • Use it for batch pickups, as well as batch payments.
    • Use a coupon to pay any or all of the invoices.
    • Using money "on account" is now a one step process.
    • The batch payment screen shows all the orders on hand for the customer - both unpaid and prepaid invoices. This helps to ensure that prepaid orders are not left on the conveyor.
    • Pressing F6 while you're in the batch payment screen, prints a list of locations, making it easy to find the invoices on the conveyor.
    • Have you ever made a batch payment in error and then had to remove payment from each and every one of the invoices? Now when you remove a payment on one invoice it will ask if you want to remove payment from all invoices in the batch?
14. You can record check numbers with payments
15. The program warns if you assign a conveyor location that's already occupied. This is a security check in the event garments are being given out without being changed to "picked Up". 
16. Invoice discounts can be displayed on the last line of the invoice instead of on each item. 
17. You have three choices for garment tag sizes.
18. Use two tag printers, one for drycleaning and one for laundry.
19. Time card reports calculate daily and/or weekly overtime.
20. It's easy to open a practice database for new staff.
21. If you have a slot in your cash drawer for checks and credit card slips, you can set the cash drawer to open only when dealing with cash payments.
22. You can change the background color of the screen.

What's different?

1. Be prepared for a slightly slower operation when you switch from a DOS based program to a similar Windows program. By it's very nature, a Windows program has much more going on in the background. For example: If your DOS version took half a second to find a customer, in Windows it might take one second.
2. In DOS there are two "Do it" or "Save" keys, F12 and F2. In Windows, F12 is the only "Do it/Save" key. The F2 key is now the Change key.
3. In DOS when adding items to an invoice, if you have 10 or more pieces as you know you cannot type 10. If you do, the program enters only 1 item. For more than 9 pieces you have to press Enter, then type the number of pieces directly into the invoice. In Windows you can enter up to 19 items by typing any number up to 19. If you have more than 19 items, you stay in the price list and press the left arrow key to move the cursor into the Qty column of the price list. You type the quantity and then press Enter.
4. To delete a line on an invoice, press F6. To change a line press F2
5. To change a price when adding items to an invoice, don't press the Enter key. Press the tab key instead to move into the price column and make whatever change you wish.
6. The letter W for "shoW all invoices" has been changed to L which will pop up a List of invoices. This lets you see all your customer's recent invoices on one screen instead of having to press the Page Up key to view each invoice. It's a great time saver.
7. Setting up the Valet feature has changed. Instead of entering V in the spouse field, type valet in the Command Line and press Enter.
8. The Exceptions report is now called the Activity report. This report has been greatly enhanced. You can review almost every procedure you or you staff have performed. This is a great security feature.
9. Reports have been expanded and include much more information. For this reason, you must have an ink jet, laser or dot matrix printer for your reports. The thermal printer is too narrow to display the extra information.
10. Statements have been changed and follow the more standard approach of listing charges and payments without specifying which invoices are being paid by which payment. Each statement starts with the balance forward from the previous month. There are two columns on the statement, one is a list of invoices and the another is a list of payments received.

What's missing

1. There is no Shirt report in Windows although you can set up a Drop off report which will do the same thing.
2. Although you can use the category report for the number of pieces you've processed, there is no Item search report.
3. Time card records are not imported into the Windows version. Print your time cards in the DOS version and after the conversion is completed, start new time cards in the Windows program.
4. SP in the Windows command window does not give you an on-screen list of garments to be cleaned each day. Instead, run the Productivity report.
5. Q in the Command Line is now used for Quick tickets; it does not do a price quote. For a price quote in Windows, press F5 to add an invoice and select your item from the price list. Once you have the price, press Escape twice and answer Yes to remove the invoice.
6. S in the Command Line does not run a statement for the on-screen customer. You need to click on the menu Reports - Statement - On screen customer
7. Cash Register works in Windows but not with the F11 key. Type register (or reg) in the command line and press F5 to add an invoice.
8. In Windows, before doing the receipt report, type OD in the Command Line to Open the cash Drawer. It doesn't open automatically when doing the receipt report.
9. There is no option to display a clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen
10. In DOS you could type C3 to change line 3 in an invoice. This has not been implemented in the Windows version
11. BP for Batch Pickup is not yet implemented. Run the delivery report to change all invoices to "picked up"

Please e-mail us if you would rather wait for these features to be included in the Windows program. Tell us which feature(s) you're waiting for and we'll let you know as soon as they're ready.

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