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has anyone built their own software?

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ericheartsu:
Or hired a company to build something for them for shop management?

Still having some issues with some software that we bought not to long ago (i.e. tons of bugs, and 1 response a week/see other posts), It's got me looking at other software. Everything else that i see isn't really striking my fancy at all, so i'm thinking about building out some software.

Just looking to see if anyone has done the same?

ebscreen:
Yessum. Filemaker Pro, which almost all shop managament software (inc Shopworx) is based on. Been developing it over the past few years or so, off and on. Initially just to get pricing (uses Sanmar db for products/pricing and our own pricing spreadsheet) in line and make the billion estimates we send out daily way easier. 

Now it does everything from put approved estimates into Quickbooks to organizing customers folders/art, automates mockup sending and approval, print setup (Put in the colors/mesh counts/sequence/squeegees/flashes output to Illy for the artist to make the seps the way I want the job to print) press sheets, ink mixing, blanks ordering, financial forecasting (how much I make this week?) etc etc.

It really is amazing and I do not know what the hell we would do without it. There are those that will tell you that your time is better spent doing other things and they are probably right but in the end I have a complete shop management program that does exactly what I want it to do, and if it doesn't I can probably make it. I will post screenshots if I remember tomorrow.

Get Shirts:
I would love to see it!  I'm having a lot of difficulty settling for any of the product out there. 

whitewater:
Priceit is nice....just sayin...

ericheartsu:

--- Quote from: whitewater on February 28, 2013, 08:29:23 AM ---Priceit is nice....just sayin...

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Price it is great if you use the big companies for apparel. I use a ton of smaller vendors. Also with Price it, or any of this software, it doesn't fit the need of what i'm doing. I've spent a ton of time building a calculator on our website, to knock out the majority of what alot of these software offer. What i'm in need of is a good system that can make tech and spec sheets, and so far everything i've seen hasn't been that great.

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