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TAXIshop^™Version 4

The Current Release is TAXIshop 4.2e

Each TAXIshop system is individually designed, licensed, and prepared. Each system also includes a custom letterhead layout, using your original artwork or existing logo.

Your custom letterhead will appear on all outgoing shop forms, customer correspondence, and reports presenting your business to your clients in a most professional manner. A coordinated return address layout is also created for your shop envelopes which can be printed on demand right from your TAXIshop system.

User-Friendly Customer and Order Search Features let you View, Add, or Update Information Quickly and Easily! You enter something once! From then on, the information is automatically saved, accessed, retrieved and inserted wherever it may be needed in future forms, correspondence, or reports.

From TAXIshop's Customer Form, simply click one of the large control buttons to:

Create a New Order for this Customer...

Access a Customer's Previous or Pending Orders...

Check a Customer's Overall Balance or see a Complete Payment History of previous orders...

Select and Print a personalized Customer Letter that you've created and saved in TAXIshop's Correspondence Library...

Print an Envelope that's pre-addressed to your Customer with your logo or artwork in the return address.

To create a new order, simply click the New Order button to open TAXIshop's Order Form with your customer's personal information and all the pertinent dates already inserted into the form.

Select a Job Category, Specie, and Pose from the custom drop-down Selection Lists that automatically update when you enter new items. With Automatic Order Pricing, nothing could be easier! TAXIshop can even figure your order's Sales Tax if you like!

From the Order Form, click the buttons on the right side of the screen to record and track the Order Details that are important to you.

Enter Mount Type & Description, Panel & Base Information, Habitat and Scenery Notes, or any special Remarks.

You can specify the mount's Show Side, Direction of Turn, Head & Ear positions, and Trophy Plate Info too!

TAXIshop lets you enter all necessary Hunter & Harvest information to create the documentation required by your DNR or other agency with just one click.

Enter complete specimen Measurements on TAXIshop's custom Measurement Forms that are specific to your order's Job Category.

In the Account Info window, Enter a Quoted Price for the mount, any Extra Charges, Sales Tax, Deposits & Payments received or Customer Credits.

After each order transaction is entred, TAXIshop automatically updates the new Order Balance as well as the customer's Overall Balance should your client have more than one project in the shop.

Add a description of your Extra Charges and Customer Credits and then specify if an extra charge is subject to sales tax or not.

You can also specify if a payment or deposit was received by cash, check, or credit card and record the appropriate details.

Click the Order Status button to record or check on just where a specimen is in the taxidermy process to answer your customer's inquiries quickly and easily.

From the Print Menu, print Customer Work Orders (with your shop's Terms of Service ready for your Customer's signature)...

Shop Work Orders with all the information you need when working on a piece...

Single sheet Specimen Records with your customer's signature for your DNR logbook...

One-click Migratory Bird/Specimen Tags, Order Statements, and Completion Notices with your personalized text and Balance Due.

TAXIshop's expanded Selected Orders Form provides instant access to the orders that you want to see. View on-screen or Print a Report of all the orders that match your Search Criteria.

You can specify any or all of the desired search criteria including:

Pending or Completed Orders, Delivered or Un-Delivered Orders, a particular Customer ID, Order No, Job No, or Tag No.

You can even search by location (like the specimens in Freezer #1 or Freezer #2) or those that have been tanned or not yet tanned.

Search for orders that were sent to a tannery or other outside vendor or wholesaler; Or only those that were sent out on or after a particular date or those not yet received.

Search for a particular Job Category and/or Species...

Or add a range of Order Dates, or Estimated Completion Dates to plan next week's work schedule or to order the supplies you'll be needing.

View stunningly lifelike Wildlife Reference Photos in vivid color right on your computer screen. TAXIshop includes a built in Wildlife Reference Photo Library with some of the best taxidermy reference photos available from generous contributors like Breakthrough Magazine and other talented and creative individuals.

You can also add your own favorite reference photos or display your shop's promotional photos and previous projects for your clients.

TAXIshop Prints all Records required by State DNR/DOC agencies and the USF&W. Print blank Migratory Bird and Specimen Tags for your Client's use in the field or completed Tags with all required hunter & harvest information filled out and ready for your customer's signature.

Would you like to send your customers an annual holiday greeting? Or, how about a letter to all of your "bear" hunters telling them about your upcoming "Special Offer on Spring Bears!"? TAXIshop lets you target your Customers with Personalized Form Letters that you create and save in TAXIshop's customer correspondence library. Simply select the desired letter and click with your mouse to personalize the letter and send it to one or any group of your clients. Similar batch printing of Mailing Labels or pre-addressed Envelopes is also included.

TAXIshop does it all for you Quickly and Easily! One-Click Shop Forms, Personalized Customer Correspondence, Automated Record Keeping and Customized Reports. All in-house, and all from within your TAXIshop system.

View or Print Menu Driven Financial Reports for any period of time you specify, including: Shop Sales, Actual Receipts, Accounts Receivable, Sales Tax Reports, Shop Expenses, and an Order Summary Report that will Total and Subtotal your shop sales by individual Job Categories and Species. Everything you, or your accountant, needs at tax time is all right here in TAXIshop.

Whether you manage a large studio with an entire staff or work alone out of your home, this is the taxidermy software that you've been waiting for!

For your PC with WINDOWS! (Windows 3.1 through Windows XP)

Please Note! The current version of TAXIshop is fully compatible and rock-solid reliable with all Window's Operating Systems from Windows 3.1 through Windows XP but was not designed for use with Windows Vista. Vista, like all previous new releases of Windows is still having its share of problems; especially when running pre-Vista software. While not specifically designed for Vista, a number of TAXIshop Users have reported that they are running the current version of TAXIshop on Vista computers with satisfactory results after changing some of Vista's default settings. Please contact the author for additional details.

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