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Shopvox, Corebridge, Clarity…. Help & Advice please?
I’m been going through the process of reviewing how we process our quotes / orders / invoicing etc over the last 6 months or so. I think I’ve read just about every single thread on the interweb and yet I’m still not too clear on which way to proceed with a new software based solution. We currently price jobs manually, using spreadsheets and experience, and have a lot of paperwork for every quote / order / invoice etc.
We’re a medium sized company, 11 people, with dept’s for each role. Quotes, Orders, Graphic Design and Production.We had a Clarity demo and… well… the price was just mind boggling for the ‘training’. I’m all for paying a fair price for a fair product but the thousands of pounds we’d have to shell out for training just turned me off them. Yet alone before we start thinking about adding modules on and then the £££ keep piling up.
The main thing keeping them in the running is that we’re using Sage as our accounts package and apparently Clarity links directly to it.Shopvox. Heard a lot about this but I’m not too clear on how well it would suit the way we’re set up. They’re at Sign & Digital UK so I’ll pop along and have a chat but I would love to hear some feedback from experienced Shopvox users.
Looking at their FB account shows they’re getting regular signups so thats a good sign that the system is being adopted by others.
Is it a pain to set up though?
How does it handle multiple signs. ie: It can obviously price for a 1000 x 400mm foamex printed sign but how does it work out the pricing for multiple items?
I understand the formula behind the pricing would have to be created by ourselves? Is that right?
It’ll link to Xero, but that’s fine as it’s only £22 a month so we’d drop Sage.
I would really welcome and appreciate any feedback on ShopVox as it’s currently leading the pack.Corebridge.
I don’t know much about this but it’s popped up a few times on the bits Ive read.
Seems there or thereabouts on price.Any feedback more than welcomed.
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Yes Clarity like charging training, also their modules & users, networking etc etc etc.
Could you send 1 person to their offices in Birmingham which should be cheaper and they can return and teach the rest of your staff?
The Sage interaction isn’t essential (although nice as it takes nominal codes over) but if you’re already manually entering invoices into sage, it’s not creating anymore work, so ShopVox or others aren’t out of the running yet.
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Hi David,
Thanks for the info. We use the Quotes and Sales Order modules of Sage so the invoicing isn’t any additional work.
Essentially, an enquiry is booked up in Sage as a Quote, then converted to an Order and then , once completed, converted to an Invoice.We could send one person up there, but… it’s a bit of a compromise considering the costs.
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