Avontus Software

Avontus Software, June 2008

A NEW TOOL FOR A NEW ERA

Avontus software is proud to announce an addition to our suite of scaffold/shoring/formwork products, Avontus Quantify. For those of you needing to track equipment, you can't find a better tool.

One of the more exciting features of Quantify is an included API (application programmer interface). Using VB or C#, developers can write code to drive all parts of Quantify. You can move data between applications, create reservations (shown above), shipments, estimates, transactions, invoices, and even synchronize it all with your accounting, ERP, or other software. The possibilities are without limit. Please feel free to contact us with questions and to arrange for a no-obligation demo.

So, now the newsletter. This newsletter focuses on a common problem in the scaffold, shoring, and forming industries: tracking your re-rent.

Avontus Quantify 2008

If you're a typical scaffold/shoring/formwork company, you likely rent equipment from various vendors. Since this rented equipment is the same as what you own, it's often combined with your own equipment. You return the rental when you can and it comes at a price. But, you can only return equipment if you know where it is and, more importantly, that it is no longer needed.
In Avontus Quantify this is called Re-Rent. Re-Rent isn't necessarily equipment that you rent to a customer; re-rent is equipment that you're renting from a vendor, whether you rent it out to a customer or not. To manage re-rent in Avontus Quantify you create a re-rent transaction for a vendor. That's it.
	Re-rent is displayed in line with your rental inventory, both at job sites and branch offices. In just a few clicks you can see this equipment. It's also displayed in Quantify Mobile Web, which is viewable on your iPhone or Blackberry-type mobile phone. You can also ship re-rented equipment right alongside other items in your shipments.
Returning re-rent equipment is just as easy as renting it; simply create a 'Return from Re-Rent' transaction and select the location you want to ship from and the vendor whom you rented from.
	Email notifications for shipments keep you up to date by giving you the information you need in your inbox. If the shipment contains re-rent, you'll see this populated in the 'Owner' column, shown here.
Various reports display the equipment you are re-renting - both total quantities as well as quantities by location (job site and/or branch office). Re-rent is also included in utilization reports. It's that easy.

Other Features Include:

Easily enter lists of equipment just like you would in Microsoft Excel
View equipment availability on your iPhone, or any mobile device with a web browser
Transfer, deliver, return, partial, shortages and overages
Estimates can import from BidMaker and instantly morph to reservations
Ability to edit your shipments, underlying changes are voided and tracked
Unlimited users
SQL Server Express (free) to share your data on your server
Host on Avontus' secure, 99.9% uptime web servers

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Schedule a Free Live Web Demo

Don't have time to evaluate our products on your own? Avontus can provide live web demos of Handset Designer and Quantify, powered by Citrix GoToMeeting. You and your co-workers can watch a demonstration of our software from your office and ask your tough questions on a conference call. Contact us to schedule a web meeting today.

You can download a free trial version of most products by going to http://www.avontus.com/ or e-mail us (sales@avontus.com) your name and address and we'll send you a demo CD by mail.

Avontus Software Corporation
www.avontus.com
Phone: (800) 848-1860