Dive Shop Express  is a customized solution for Dive Store owners. Dive Shop Express consists of the following applications: Point Of Sale  - Sell items, rent gear, reserve trips and classes, and sell services. Contact Manager  - track of your customers and students, create mailing lists. Course Scheduler  - Set up classes, and keep them organized. Travel Reservation System  - Set up Trips, and keep them organized. Work Orders  - Sell services to customers and track their serviced equipment from the moment it enters your store until the moment it leaves. Packages  - Create packages to easily sell to a customer at one price. Rentals  - Easily rent items and create rental reservations. Inventory Maintenance  - Create items to sell to your customers. Purchase Orders  - Create Purchase Orders to send to your vendors for easy tracking and delivery. Start / End of Day program that interfaces with QuickBooks  - Export your accounting information easily into QuickBooks. On Sale Program  - Easily put items on sale, by group or one at a time. Reports  - Create reports to analyze your business. Gift Certificate Program  - Monitor your gift certificates / gift card balances.

Point Of Sale

• Add new customers in your system or easily locate existing customers. You can also easily generate a mailing label if you have a label printer attached to your system or network.
• Scan bar codes from merchandise.
• Search for merchandise (by category, color, description, manufacturer, or part number). Express Software also gives you the ability to combine search criteria (e.g., give me all products that are in stock, that have the word 'Black' in their description, and are made by 'My Vendor', and belong in the category 'Masks').
• Save old quotes and recall them when customers inquire.
• View and create popup messages for customers.
• View outstanding customer balances.
• View add-on sale and other popup reminder messages for specific inventory items as those items are entered onto an invoice.
• Check status of customer orders.
• Easy to locate, large, touch screen-friendly feature buttons.
• Easily return customer merchandise.
• Add customized comments to customer invoices.
• Supports both 3" receipt printers and normal size printers.
• Supports credit card authorization directly from Point of Sale using ICVerify or X-Charge credit card authorization software programs.

Contact Manager

• Quickly access customer and business contact information.
• Generate reminders for effective customer follow-up.
• Access follow-up sales and special-event information.
• Create multiple mailing lists to promote sales or events.
• Create mailing lists based on Customer Purchases (e.g., tell me who bought a basic class but has not yet purchased an advanced class, or tell me who bought a basic class and have not spent more than five hundred dollars in the store).
• Create mailing lists based on birthdays for a specific month or day.
• Categorize customers by the products and services they are interested in.
• Generate mailing lists based on special interest groups that customers belong to.
• Export mailing lists to a mail merge file.

Inventory Management System

• Track inventory from purchase order and receiving through final sale.
• Use templates to define new inventory items.
• Set re-order levels for each part so that you can automatically order more parts.
• Create warranty reminders that automatically let you know when parts are due for service.
• Modify prices and price items based on what your gross margin needs to be.
• View inventory history for parts.
• Automatically generate bar code labels when new parts arrive in your store.
• Set discounts for sale items. Sale prices are automatically rung up at time of purchase.
• Multiple prices per item.
• Adjust prices using preferred formulas.
• Solicit Serial Numbers at Point Of Sale or pre-enter Serial Numbers before a sale can be made.
• Each item is associated by an Internal Part Number, a Bar Code Number, and a Vendor Part Number (Multiple Vendors and part numbers are supported).
• Quickly generate a bar code label if a bar code printer is attached to your system and/or network.

Purchase Order System

• List all items at their specified re-order level.
• Order items based on customer orders.
• Order any individual items you want to carry.
• Generate purchase orders
• Quickly update information and generate labels after you receive the merchandise.
• Save and recall all purchase orders.
• Print Bar Code labels before or after the order is received.
• Multiple Vendor support for your inventory items.

Package Program

• Bundle merchandise in kits to increase sales and meet your target gross margin.
• Easily replace individual parts within a kit at the time of sale.
• Use as a quote system: design customized package and price for client.

Gift Certificate Program

• Choose to use barcoded Gift Cards, "re-chargeable" or with defined values, in place of paper Certificates to increase Gift Certificate sales.
• Track Certificates / Cards, from the creation of their serial numbers to time of redemption.
• View Gift Certificates / Cards that are: active, available, expired, destroyed, stolen, missing, voided, or have open balances.
• Find a Certificate or Card's owner by viewing its purchase history.
• Easily redeem Gift Certificates / Cards.
• Requires special authorization to access and modify Certificates / Cards.
• View specific sales reports using Report Selector.

Travel Reservation System

• Take deposits for a trip and not have them post as a sale until you specify it as being sold (for accounting and tax purposes).
• Define multiple price options for a trip (e.g., With Air, Without Air, Non-Diver).
• Define add-on options (e.g., Night Dive, Dinner Cruise) that can be sold in addition to the trip.
• Define multiple prices per add-on option (e.g., Retail, Cash Price, Club Membership Price).
• Evaluate cost versus sales for trip.
• View/Print Customer Manifest.

Work Orders

• Track repairs
• Add technical notes to each Work Order
• Keep your customers informed on the status of their equipment with the ability to track Return Manufacturer Authorization records.
• Print claim checks.
• View all active and inactive Work Orders using the Report Selector.
• Set Warranty Reminders.
• Accept deposits and payments.

Additional Features

• Rental Reservations.
• Serial Number Tracking.
• Course Scheduler.
• Travel Reservation System.
• Automatic printing of specified documents when item is sold.
• Start of day and end of day system.
• Report Selector.
• Intuit's Quickbooks Interface for your Accounting System.
• and much more...

System Requirements

• Minimum System Requirements are: 800 MHZ processor or greater, 128 MB Windows XP (64 MB RAM, Windows '95, Windows '98, or Windows ME).
• Recommended System Requirements: 1 GHZ processor or greater, 256 MB RAM and Windows XP Professional.
• Approximately 250 MB of available disk space is needed to load Express Software.