ATELIER 98 – The managerial software for apparel, footwear, sportswear and underwear shops.



	Are there any limits on the number of the sizes? Are the barcodes automatically produced ? Do I have to buy a specific printer for the labels? Is it possible to use the barcode of the suppliers? Is it possible to manage both continuative and seasonal articles? Is it possible to manage sales and stock? Have the shops to be always connected? Do I need to purchase another software to exchange data via modem between the shops? May I run a research in the store for season? or for ...? Can I use portable terminals to run sales? Is it possible to use a notebook pc to make the orders? Is it possible to run periodic controls on the shops? Is it possible to export the data to Excel or the reports to Word? Is it possible to manage customers takings? Can I prepare some fidelity cards to assign to the clients? Does Atelier 98 deal also tax accounting? Can I import the data from the suppliers' files? Do I have to close the shop and make the inventory to start with Atelier 98? When can I be operative after the installation? Is it possible to manage the price increment for size for the children's clothes? Can I realign the value of my store? Or of the sales of a period? Can I protect the access to the data with a password? Can I limit the access to the informations? Can I make research in the store to a specific date? Or from date to a date? Is it possible to program the reassortment of the shops? CIs it possible to save the photos of the models to check the deliveries? Is it possible to sell or to transfer in block all the items of the store, without having to materially read the labels? Is it possible the link to the cash till? How many characters does the code of the article contain? Is it possible to prepare an estimate for the stock seller? Is Atelier 98 a DOS converted program? By which operating system can Atelier 98 work? How much assistance does the program require? Is it possible to receive assistance by modem? How much does Atelier 98 cost? • Are there any limits on the number of the sizes? No. There is not any limit either on the number of Typologies of size, or on the number of size belonging to the same typology. In the report to the size, 25 sizes are printed for line. In case of typologies with an higher number of sizes, more lines will be required. • Are the Barcodes automatically produced? Yes, they are. Atelier 98 automatically produces the barcode that will perfectly identify with a unique reading the model, the variance, the size. • Do I have to buy a specific printer for the labels? No. There is no necessity to purchase specific printers for the barcode's print; they are printed on every laser or ink-jet printer installed in Windows. •Is it possible to use the barcodes of the suppliers? Yes, it is. Besides producing the barcodes, it is possible to use the barcodes in the labels of the suppliers. This practice results convenient in case of items purchased in big quantity (es. tennis Balls) or in case of single brand shops. • Is it possible to manage both continuative and seasonal articles? Yes, it is. Besides the seasonal articles it is also possible to manage with different methods the continuative articles. • Is it possible to manage sales and stocks? Yes, it is. There are a series of functions for the attribution of the sale prices both directly on the articles, and globally or for any selection on the store. It will be also possible to get the reprint of the labels that will underline the old price crossed and the new sale price. It is possible to manage the sales to stock through the preparation of specific estimates having for base the sale price or the purchase price . The issue of the invoices will be possible then. In the Statistics report, the sales will be distinguished among normal sales, on sale or to stock. • Have the shops to be always connected? No. The shops can independently work from the center without being always connected. Only at the end of the day, through a brief and automatic communication there will be the exchange of the data that will update both the server and the client directly or via Internet. If somebody needs data in real time, it is also possible the link on-line, both direct and via Internet. • Do I need to purchase another software to exchange data via modem between the shops? No. It is not necessary to purchase other software of communication. Atelier 98 uses the functionalities of communication of the operational systems Windows. • May I run a research in the store for season? or for shop? or for...? Yes. You can search in the store for any selection on the tables of classification: Season, Kind of season, Brand, Supplier, Group, super Group, Category, Sector, Fabric, Motif, Colour and then Shop, Company, from date to date. • Can I use portableTerminals to run the sales? Yes, you can. It is possible to run the sales using portable Terminals. However the best way is to run the sales directly on the PC, using all the available functions with a more powerful tool. • Is it possible to use a notebook pc to make the orders? Yes, it is. The facility and speed of using Atelier 98 allows to insert the orders while you are talking with the suppliers. Many of our customers use this method drawing great advantages of it: precision in the classification of the article; immediate statistics on the ordered; complete vision of your own store and of your own potentiality of sale while you are ordering the goods. If you are out, the job in the shop can normally continue; when you will go back, just linking the portable on line, the data will be update in the Pc of the shop and the codings of the new ordered items will be immediately available. • Is it possible to run periodic controls on the shops? Yes, it is. Through the use of Terminals (portable barcode readers with memory), it is possible to run in any moment the inventory, even a part of it, of a shop. Atelier 98 will automatically compare it with the inventory that results from the recordings of sales and purchases and it will print the possible differences. • Is it possible to export the data to Excel or the reports to Word? Yes, it is. It is possible to export them to Word or Excel and from these tools to send them directly to the Fax or to attach them to E-mails. They are also some specific exportations of data toward Excel. • Is it possible to manage customers takings? Yes, it is. It is available a powerful and easy management of the takings, of the outstandings and of the vouchers . • Can I prepare some fidelity cards to assign to the clients? Yes, you can. It is possible to print the barcode labels of the customers. They can be inserted in special card to distribute to the customers. It is possible to assign to every customer a particular discount (not effective for the items on sale). It is possible to get statistics of the sold for client both concise and detailed. There is the possibility to have a point's management for every item and customer. • Can I prepare some fidelity cards to assign to the clients? Yes, you can. It is possible to print the barcode labels of the customers. They can be inserted in special card to distribute to the customers. It is possible to assign to every customer a particular discount (not effective for the items on sale). It is possible to get statistics of the sold for client both concise and detailed. There is the possibility to have a point's management for every item and customer. • Does Atelier 98 deal also tax accounting? No. Atelier 98 deals of the store, of statistics and support to the decisions, of management and fidelization of the customers. From the tax accounting's point of view, it deals only of the production of the documents: Bill of parcels; Invoices, Receipts. • Do I have to close the shop and make the inventory to start with Atelier 98? No, you don't. It is not necessary to stop the shop and to make the stock inventory to start to work with Atelier 98. There are some easier methods of start. • When can I be operative after the installation? Usually soon after the first and sometimes only one meeting. Following a 10 minutes explanation of the concepts and a vision of the tables, you can immediately insert the first documents and eventually to produce the labels for the items already delivered. • Is it possible to manage the price increment for size for the children's clothes? Yes, it is. They exist some methods for the management of the price increment for size. • Can I realign the value of my store? Or of the sales of a period? Yes, you can. they are some functions for the realignment of the stock (for any selection) to a wanted value. The same functionality is available for the valorization of the sold. • Can I protect the access to the data with a password? Yes, you can protect the access to Atelier 98 with a password. • Can I limit the access to the informations? Yes, you can. They exist some procedures of installation that limit the access to the informations and the functionalities. • Can I make research in the store to a specific date? Or from date to a date? Yes, you can. It is possible to know the situation of the store both to the current date, and to any previous date. They are available also situations from a date to a date. • Is it possible to program the reassortment of the shops? Yes, it is. There are specific reports for the reassortment of the shops. • Is it possible to save the photos of the models to check the deliveries? Yes, it is possible to save the photos of the models. • Is it possible to sell or to transfer in block all the items of the store, without having to materially read the labels? Yes, it is. I can run movements in block for any selection of the items in the store without the necessity to physically read all the labels. • Is it possible the link to the cash till? Yes, it is possible the link to the cash till. We manage around 30 different models of the principal brands. • How many characters does the code of the article contain? The code of the article has a maximum length of 30 characters: 20 for the model and 10 for the variance. • Is it possible to prepare an estimate for the stock seller? Yes, it is possible to prepare and to print the estimate for stock seller without influencing the store. In case of conclusion of the negotiation this can automatically be turned into sale to stock and printed the regular invoice. • Is Atelier 98 a DOS converted program? No. Atelier 98 is born in Windows and it uses a lot of its characteristics to facilitate the job to the operators. • By which operating system can Atelier 98 work? The operational systems in which Atelier 98 can work are: Windows 95; Windows 98; Windows Me; Windows 2000 Professional; Windows 2000 Server; Windows XP; Windows 2003 Server. • How much assistance does the program require? Atelier 98 is a standard software program. Its functions are used and checked by hundreds of customers. This grants high reliability and lack of technical support. We guarantee to our customers a rapid and careful assistance by e-mail. The updatings are periodically published in our site and they can be freely down loaded from customers in rental rate. • Is it possible to receive assistance by modem? Yes it is. We recommend it especially for the bigger installations. In this way we can take the control of your Pc and work as if we are in your offices. • How much does Atelier 98 cost? Atelier 98 has a cost for every workstation. Every PC, that uses it, has to be given a proper licence. This price policy allows the cost to be suitable packet to every kind of shop.