Activity Manager Pro 5.2 review
DownloadActivity Manager Pro is designed to meet the specific needs of activity desks and tour resellers.
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Activity Manager Pro is designed to meet the specific needs of activity desks and tour resellers.
It has the added ability to manage multiple locations as well as an optional feature which allows built-in credit card processing.
This is a FileMaker Pro based solution and the demo is distributed as a stand alone runtime application of the Single-User version. Multi-User, Server, and Web-Enabled version are also available.
Here are some key features of "Activity Manager Pro":
Cross platform, networkable, & Internet aware
Create vouchered and/or referred reservations with or without pre-collected commissions
Set an unlimited number of vendors and activities
Set commission rates at activity level
Pre-set activity check-in times to reduce errors
Pre-set check-in locations and special instructions
Set transaction type (voucher or referral) at vendor level to reduce errors
Set non commission-able items at vendor level
Audit log to track changes to reservations
Virtually unlimited reporting
Agent commission reporting
Basic accounting
Track vendor receivables and payables
Agent commission/payables reporting
Account Management with Built-in security features
Login/logout system for unlimited number of sales agents
Set required fields for reservationists
Includes customized printable voucher for your activity desk business (Multi-User and above only)
Integrated email with spell checking
Email clients and contacts
Create form letters with spell checking, mailing labels, and fax cover pages for clients
Contact management
Search by any criteria
Valid credit card number verification
Custom fields
Custom invoice (Multi-User and above only)
Optional credit card processing module
Publish activities online and receive Internet bookings directly into the reservation system (Web Module).
Limitations:
30 days evaluation.
What's New:
Settings: You can now be modify the Settings from client machines (Multi-User & Server).
Contacts: You can now merge two contacts into one records (with field conflict resolution).
Reservations: You can now associate a reservation with a contact even if the reservation was created first.
Reservations: Changed the way Refunds work to make thing simpler.
Reservations: On the Voucher, the default Check-in Time, Check in Location & Special Instructions can be modified.
Reservations: The Activity pop-up menu now loads much faster.
Reports: Removed the redundant Accounting Report and replaced it with a Daily Cash Report.
Vendors: Changed the way Sections & Categories are modified to make it faster and more reliable.
Made all Delete dialogs non-destructive with default option.
Credit Card Processing Module: When capturing a previously authorized transaction, you can now capture a lesser amount than the original authorization.
Credit Card Processing Module: On MacOS X, the Troi URL plug-in is no longer required.
Phone/Fax fields will now auto format with or without an area code.
Email fields will now auto format with or without capital letters.
Web Module: You can now update one Vendor at a time in the remote MySQL DB.
In Mac OS X, styled text copied from another application now retains its styles when pasted into a field in FileMaker Pro. Styled text copied from FileMaker Pro also maintains its styles when pasted into an application that supports the RTF format.
Type-ahead in a value list now moves to the next value if the typed character does not exist in the list.
Portals no longer displays graphic defects when you scroll to the last row.
Decreased demo runtime back to 30 days.
Several more minor bug fixes.
Many more minor improvements.
What's New:
Updated application to take advantage of FileMaker Pro 8 features.
Overall speed increase when launching and running Activity Manager Pro.
Added a new optional Tooltips feature, as part of the built-in Help System.
Added a new optional Toolbar feature.
Removed the "New", "Find" & "Delete" aqua buttons because they are already in the new Toolbar.
Reservations: Agency, Activity, Agent, & Accommodations fields now have the auto-complete (type ahead) feature.
Reservations: Date fields now have a mini pop-up calendar to make it easy to insert dates.
Reservations: The bottom part of the sample voucher can now be customized by the Administrator.
Fixed a bug in the Web Module, which would rarely happen in certain circumstances.
The SecureFM Plug-in is no longer used to make the menus. Native FileMaker 8 custom menus are now used.
Reservations -> Invoice screen: The administrator can now modify most of the sample reservation agreement/voucher.
Corrected a few minor User Interface inconsistencies.
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