Compuhelp, Inc. is now shipping TRADING QUOTE, designed to automate the processing of clients' quotes preparation and generation of requests for quote for distributors. There are many accounting packages in the market for successful accomplishment of order processing, inventory control, billing, etc., but generally, there is a lack of an efficient handling of quotations. The purpose of TRADING QUOTE is to fill this gap. TRADING QUOTE is a multicompany program that efficiently generates quotations and requests for quotes, with the possibility of consolidating several clients' quote inquiries into one or more requests for quote for one or more distributors, respectively. Then, suitable ready-to-send printout formats either for clients' quotes or requests for quote for distributors can be produced with no need of preprinted forms. The program keeps track of pending clients' quotes, as well as of pending distributors' quotes. Along with this, it is provided a quotation history for any item, in reverse chronological order, so the last given prices to clients, received costs from distributors, quantities ordered, etc. are shown first. While recording a request for quote, endless item descriptions, notes and comments can be entered. If a markup percentage was optionally assigned to an item in order to establish its desired profit percentage, then once the item cost is filled, the item price is automatically calculated, characteristic enhanced by the possibility of seeing the total amount and the margin at any time when working with a quote. At any moment passwords may be assigned to users, controlling access to the program functions. TRADING QUOTE offers the advantage of profiting the users' existing investment for those who have a database accounting system written in dBase like language. Thanks to the linking option, it can access to the current clients, vendors/distributors and items information from the accounting system. Three degrees of linking to the accounting system causes three modes of operation, according to the users' needs: totally linked (the quotation system Is automatically updated with accounting information); periodically refreshed (the quotation system is periodically updated with item, vendor and customer data from the accounting system); totally independent (the quotation system operates as a stand alone system). Finally, the use of state-of-the-art technology, with pick lists, windows, hot keys and menus, backed by FoxPro 2.0, the most powerful database management system in the market for PCs and PC networks, makes TRADING QUOTE a friendly, easy-to-use program. TRADING QUOTE requires IBM PC-AT, PS/2, or compatible computer with a mandatory hard disk for the case of Single User version, and at least one floppy disk drive. It runs on PC DOS, or MS DOS Version 3.1 or higher, and for networks, on NETBIOS and Novell Netware environments. It needs at least 540K RAM memory to run, but available memory over the minimum will significantly improve performance. On 386-based machines with at least 2MB, optimum performance is achieved running the extended version of the program. In addition, it requires 5.5 MB of free disk space. Pricing of TRADING QUOTE is as follows: Network version $695.00 (Source Code included); Single User Version $495.00; Demo with Complete Manual $75.00; Demo with Partial Manual in diskette $35.00. Demo cost is applicable to further purchase. Shipping & Handling (inside United States) is included in above prices. Compuhelp Inc 11401 S.W. 40th St, Suite 306, Miami, FL 33165 305-559-0061 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the America Online New Product Information Services | +===============================================================+ | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR | | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data | | provided by the above mentioned company. For additional info, | | contact the company at the address or phone# indicated above. | | All submissions for this service should be addressed to | | BAKER ENTERPRISES, 20 Ferro Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 U.S.A. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+