[Steve CM]

if you can export a spreadsheet why can't you import one?

strange!

[ianhannaford]

if you can export a spreadsheet why can't you import one?

strange!

Like I said, technically its easy to do if the data can be exported from George in some form of spreadsheet etc...if someone can send me a sample I will take a look. My emailis ian@windowcleanerpro.com

Ian

[dave0123]

what you need sample of?

[jaykie]

Ian where abouts in East Sussex are you.

Chris

Chris,

I am based in Hailsham. If you near by your more than welcome to visit and see the software in action.

Ian

Hi Ian im in Eastbourne so up the road

Chris

[ianhannaford]

what you need sample of?

The data exported from George

[gmcs]

Thanks for looking at Blackberry as I do not want to carry 2 units with me if you are looking for a tester for balckberry call me on 07850281000



thanks for your time

[LWC]

i am interested in this as i have a pda with windows on it

i would really like to know what you are selling it at please

[LWC]

hi ian, just a thought

soon my plans are to have 2 vans out, so my question is, if i had 2 pda's could they both run seperate rounds?

or would the program have to be bought twice?

[ianhannaford]

hi ian, just a thought

soon my plans are to have 2 vans out, so my question is, if i had 2 pda's could they both run seperate rounds?

or would the program have to be bought twice?

Hi,

WCP is able to handle multiple PDA's. How the process works is as follows:

1) You create a worksheet. This can be the name of the employee or the round name (it can even be the day of the week)
2) You then add work (jobs) to the worksheet based on the schedule.
3) You connect the PDA to the main program
4) You then clickm a button to send the worksheet to the PDA, if you have more than 1 connected then you decide which PDA to send to
5) Throughout the day you maintain the work on the PDA and add any expenses
6) When you have finished you reconnect to the main program and click 'Syncornise'
7) Thats it...all your work is up to date and your schedule is adjusted accordingly.

Hope that answers your question

Ian

[LWC]

so where we at with this?

[ianhannaford]

so where we at with this?

Website is being completed as we speak. I am hoping to go live either this week or early next week.

Cheers

Ian

[LWC]

have you thought about a price? im interested

[ianhannaford]

have you thought about a price? im interested

The price is one of the last things to set when creating a software and are still playing with the pricing structure. There will be a discount from the RRP for the lauch price...and will also be a few bonuses offers for the first 100 or so customers.

[LWC]

count me in at the right price

[dave0123]

Did anyone else try sending ian data from george to see if he could import it into his programe?

[ianhannaford]

Did anyone else try sending ian data from george to see if he could import it into his programe?

Dave,

I have had a look at the data that you can export from George and it only has limited data. For example although you can get all the customer details and job details there is no job history available. The other issue is that the structure of George data (1 customer = 1 job) means that if you have 2 jobs for a customer then you have to input this into George as 2 customers. I have no guarantee that Customer X is the same as Customer X and so would not be able to join these records.

Although most of the data can be impoted to save some time, there would still be some manual editing involved. I have a company that I have asked to give me a price to do the data transformations manually for me. As soon as they give me a price I could offer this as a service.

Hope that makes sense

Ian

Ian

[Moderator David@stives]

Ian

Will your program have an export facility

[ianhannaford]

Ian

Will your program have an export facility

How do you mean export? It will have the ability to backup the data and a reports section where you can get most of the information out.

Ian

[Moderator David@stives]

Will we be faced with the same problem with exporting data form George to your program if a we wanted to use another program in the future

[ianhannaford]

Will we be faced with the same problem with exporting data form George to your program if a we wanted to use another program in the future

Ok, WCP wont have an inbuilt export facility but if you wanted to export your data for any reason then we would be more than happy to assist. There are a couple of reasons for this:

1) Our data is organised in a very specific data model and the program that you may want to move to would no doubt have a different data model.
2) Out data model will change over time.
3) It is far easier to export the data so that it is compatable with another program rather than a general data 'dump' and the other program having to write a utility to import.

Ian