PhotoLab Calendar

A planner for professional photographic & digital imaging services.

Features: PhotoLab Calendar is a schedule manager specifically designed for businesses offering photo lab and video processing services. This is an application that lets you set up a calendar of tasks. It lets you plan work hours, track the scheduled jobs/appointments as well as orders. Customer details can be collected that are necessary, contact information such as name, address, phone, mobile no etc., eMail address, preferences and comments as well. When adding customer data, the application assists by auto filling when details are already available in the database. Auto search feature helps the utility find out if customer data is available in the database already. The application will support unlimited number of services. One schedules tasks for each of these easily.

There are two viewing modes available. Vertical and the horizontal timeline can be used. A tabular view will give a complete overview of activities in the shop. You can view the information about payments, daily income for any day at any moment when you need it. You can create reminders/alerts for people responsible for carrying out the services required for a specific job order. Overall income scenario also can be viewed as you check out daily payments or payments on the active jobs. Data can be exported in any one of several formats that include XLS, TXT, HTML and XML. You would be able to synchronize data with MS Outlook if a team member prefers to work with Outlook. Auto back up and restore functions take care of any problems due to crash or virus attacks. Older versions of archives are removed automatically.

Overall: It has nice set of features and one is able to work in an Outlook look-alike interface. It is easy to get familiar with.

PhotoLab Calendar is a must-have schedule management tool for anyone who has a photo or video business. It supports infinite number of resources (digital services, film services) and has a well-organized navigation system. It's perfect to plan working hours, keep track of scheduled appointments and orders. It'll store the information about clients, such as their address, telephone, email and comments. There are two viewing modes in the program: calendar with a vertical and horizontal timeline and a table view to help you get the general overview of the jobs. It's possible to create reminders to alert users about the things they should do. Available is an automatic search and auto-field filling for a client, who has already been entered to the database. You can view the information about payments, daily income for any day at any moment when you need it. For those people, who work in Microsoft Outlook, it's possible to synch data. Export of data is available to different formats: XLS, TXT, HTML, XML, PDF for its adaptation for other programs. In case of crashes or virus attacks, there is an auto backup function with a possibility to remove old archives automatically. There is an inexpensive version of the program for workgroups, allowing unlimited number of users to work simultaneously over the network. You pay for the program only the first time and get all new versions of this program for FREE and for a lifetime!