Imaging
The Jewellery Shopkeeper is fully image aware.
- Stock control – ensure the image matches the stock code being sold
- Image search – list a selection of diamond rings for a client to choose their favourite
- Valuations – creates a professional looking valuation
- Catalogues – reordering and selecting by recently sold selection or supplier
- Customer appraisals – stores the client’s image for the next time they update the appraisal
- Workshop security – capture an image of the jewellery being left at your store to avoid accusations and liability.
Although, due to design restrictions, the data entry terminals cannot display these images, the images are shown on both screen and printed reports and valuation certificates.
Images can be assigned to all of The Jewellery Shopkeeper inventory types, including raw materials and workshop orders. Not only that; images can also be stored for customer's own jewellery (for use in valuation certificates) and in supplier records linked to the supplier's stock codes, thus allowing one image to be automatically assigned to multiple merchandise codes.
Image capture with PutPic
PutPic is an essential add-on and is included as part of The Shopkeeper Plus. Whether your server is located on premises or in the cloud, PicPic provides reliable and securely encrypted file transfer for images and other data. But not only that -- it also has built-in intelligence to know where to put the images and data after first offering you various image enhancing functions.
- Take photos directly from a web cam or get photos from a digital camera or disk file.
- Rotate, crop, brightness, gamma and contrast.
- Cropping proportions can be freehand or restricted to square or 4:3 rectangle.
- Enlarged preview to quickly check results of the image edits.
- Intelligently normalise codes entered in short-hand or scanned from long bar-codes.
- Record images for all inventory types including raw materials
- Record merchandise, standard stock as unique inventory images or as supplier images. Supplier image is automatically used if no unique image is recorded.
- Record images of customer's own items for valuation certificates
- Record images of items brought in for repair or appraisal
- Quickly and easily copy an image from one code to another, or enhance an existing image.
- Image files are automatically resized before saving to optomise storage space and speed. Three image sizes are offered, with 320-pixel being recommended for inventory with typical detail.
- Send data files to the database 'shuttle' directory
- Useful for sending stock codes captured by a hand-held stock-take scanner to the server. Also for transferring inventory graft files that were received by email from your supplier of from an associated company.
- Easily browse for the file to send. The file is checked for file type and whether the file already exists on the server. If it exists it also tells you whether you have permission to overwrite the file.
- Secure recording of images and other data to prevent others
from changing the files.
- If an attempt is made to overwrite a file that was recorded by another user, PutPic shows who the owner is. The file owner's password will allow the overwrite to take place.
