AutoClub 1.0.4

AutoClub 1.0.4 is considered as a flexible application designed to meet the requirements of a garage which needs to maintain a database of customers and their cars. It has a comprehensive set of features to meet the needs of garages of all sizes.

AutoClub is easy to setup and operate, making it an ideal choice for a small business running it on a single PC but is expandable to meet the needs of the large organizations. Designed especially for small to medium sized business (up to around 10,000 customers) and has a large number of features as standard.

AutoClub optionally integrates with Barcode Scanners, Magnetic Card Reads and Plastic Card printers. It has a report wizard that allows a comprehensive set of reports on customers, loyalty points and other statistics to be produced. The standard customer and vehicle records are comprehensive and allow for user-defined fields, user-defined flags, free notes fields and dated (historical) notes entries.

Major Features:

1. Designed especially for small to medium sized business (up to around 10,000 customers).
2. Intuitive easy-to-use interface
3. Creates customizable customer cards with photo and integrated barcodes
4. Customizable card backgrounds and logos (can be based on customer type)
5. Comprehensive set of reports on custoemrs, loyalty points and other statistics
6. Each customer record has:
   • Full contact details (name, address, phone, mobile, e-mail)
   • Standard attributes (Banned, Suspended, Cancelled)
   • User definable attributes/flags
   • User definable member types (e.g. Standard, Staff, Junior, etc)
   • Free text field for notes (e.g. allergy information)
   • Photo (JPG, GIF and BMP supported).
   • Historical records
7. Optional operator passwords for all modules
8. Card Designer for modifying the design of membership and pass cards
9. FrontGate/Reception module - a Point of Sale application for handling
   • Barcoded goods
   • Customer Membership and renewals
   • Loyalty points
   • Non-barcode goods
   • Integrates with a receipt printer
10. An assortment of transactions
    • New customer membership
    • Customer membership renewal
    • Barcoded goods
    • User-defined transactions
    • Payments as cash, card or cheque
11. Operators with usernames and passwords
    • Can be used to restrict access to all programs and modules
    • Can be used to restrict access to reports or just financial reports
12. Loyalty Points
    • Points can be added or redeemed via the FrontGate module
    • Can be automatically added according to spend
    • Can be assigned a redemption cash value as a discount against spend
13. Group Accounts for collecting individual members into an associated group, e.g. a family or a larger business
14. Will integrate with a barcode scanner or magnetic card reader
15. Will work in a network configuration with an large number of networked PCs
16. Requires Windows 2000 or later
17. Will run with Windows Vista
18. Uses a Microsoft Access compatible database allowing the user to create custom reports and interfaces