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- Architect's Helper [TM], Version 4.0 overview:
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- Everything is on line!
- 230 pages of documentation, 60 context-sensitive on line Help screens
- Fast Search Capability
- Rolodex [TM] features
- Appointment Schedules and Graphics
- "Layer-in" ability:
- 99,999,999 layers of data
- All Reports fit into a Standard Briefcase!
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- Be in control of your Clients:
- store up to one BILLION names, phone numbers, or appointments
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- This program includes:
- Appointments, Commitments, Callbacks, Statements
- Revenues\Expenses, Collections, Graphics, Free-form data search,
- Rolodex [TM] features, Labels management, and Reports!
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- Labels management menu provides 13 options for you,
- will recognize 10 different size labels,
- handles U.S., Canadian, Australian, and British labels,
- and performs U.S. Postal Service 3rd Class Bulk Mail sorting.
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- With a built in intelligent Telephone\Speakerphone Dialing System,
- that dials all of your phone calls for you and tells you
- if they are local, local toll, long distance,
- long distance toll, or international
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- and can output up to 20 follow on codes after dialing long distance.
- Stores and dials up to one BILLION phone numbers for you.
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- Links into SBT [TM] and SourceMate [TM] customer files,
- as well as Junior and Senior Loose-Leaf Day-Timers [TM].
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- Contains a built-in proposal and invoice generator.
- and can time and cost your activities
- as well as automatically create summary or detail statements
- to reflect amount owed for activities or consultations.
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- This program standardizes your contact with
- clients
- and converts forgotten verbal commitments into a focused, daily
- appointments and callback list that nets you extra business!
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- Retrieve activities by word or phrase,
- and has built in word processor for every record in the Rolodex [TM] file.
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- Outputs to dBASE III [TM]
- and to Merge feature in Wordstar [TM], Word [TM], or WordPerfect [TM]
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- The registration fee for this fantastic program is only $99!
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- Beyond basic client scheduling, Architect's Helper [TM] contains powerful
- financial extensions, such as the creation of summary or detail statements,
- for any historical or current period. In addition to aggregating all
- billable items for an architect, this program will also calculate any add-
- on charges. If selected, this feature will calculate add-on interest and
- will then place those charges into newly created activity records, then
- upgrade the summarized value during the posting process to reflect these
- additional charges. The period selected by the architect for this
- automatic calculation could be either yearly, monthly, weekly, or daily.
- To see these financial features, please note selection 4 on the Main
- Program Menu: Revenue/Expense. Once you select '4', you will then see the
- Revenue/Expense Summary Menu and its Help screen.
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- ===== Speed, Power, Ease of Use =====
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- Speed, Power, Ease of Use is more than just a phrase that appears within
- the program in the exploding graphics Install procedure. It is my
- commitment to you to deliver the best, most stable, high performance
- business software available today.
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- One concrete example of this theme of Speed, Power, Ease of Use is the new
- implementation of Alternate Phone Numbers. To see it, go into the Main
- Program Menu, Option 1) Client File. Once you have selected option 1,
- observe the 'G' selection for G)et Client. Upon your entering the 'G' key,
- you will see the first client record in the test data for Architect's
- Helper [TM]. On the bottom right of the screen is this definition of the
- function keys for each Client record:
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- F1 = Background F7 = Flash Report
- F2 = Tag/Untag F8 = Dial Phone
- F3 = Quick Label F9 = Hang up Phone
- F4 = Memo F10 = Detail File
- F6 = Act Now ALT F1 = More Phones
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- Once you select ALT F1, the program presents the "Alternate Phone Number
- Options" Menu. This feature gives you an additional 20 alternate phone
- numbers PER Client. For each of the 20 phone numbers, you can enter an
- area code and a descriptive phrase. Each description can be up to 40
- characters. In addition to the Client Get screen, this option is also
- available in the Activity Add, Activity Get, and Activity Callback screens.
- As robust as this new feature is, it requires only 10 characters per client
- record, using a Paul Sax-designed variable field PHONE_2 in the main file.
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- Brewster Ward, Architect, PA
- 115 North Haywood Street
- Suite #1
- Waynesville, NC 28786
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- January 9, 1992
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- Paul Sax, ACS
- PO Box 850427
- Richardson, TX 75085
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- Dear Paul:
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- Your software program, Architect's Helper [TM], has been most helpful to
- our office. It is very well thought out, creatively designed and an
- efficient program that we have used for some time now.
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- Of specific interest to us were the several workshop seminars we conducted
- on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Each seminar included invitations
- to approximately three hundred prospective clients. By using Architect's
- Helper [TM], we were able to quickly generate mailing labels and then use
- your program to follow up with attendees and then to generate letters to
- those who expressed interest in our providing further professional services
- for their facilities.
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- In addition, we have switched over our new business development prospects
- to Architect's Helper [TM]. Although we are just in the process of
- organizing that information, there is little doubt in my mind that it will
- be extremely effective and reduce the amount of time we have to spend with
- this important aspect of our overall office.
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- One of the unique benefits of working with ACS has been the excellent phone
- support service that you personally have provided whenever a situation came
- up where we needed some help. To me this is as important as a well done
- software package. Both excellent support and program are combined in
- Architect's Helper [TM].
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- Thanks again for your responsiveness and we hope that you have continued
- success in your program development.
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- Yours very truly,
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- Brewster Ward, AIA, IFRAA
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