Jean,
A couple of ideas that may help you with your price structuring........
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<LI>Are you referring to Regular "Paper" mats (which are "Acid-Free"), or do you mean to set your pricing category for Conservation Level boards, i.e. Crescent Rag Mat, Bainbridge Alpahmat, etc.?
<LI>You probably don't want to have the same per united inch charge for all desgins.....for example, a "Bridge Mat" is much more complicated than a simple "slant notch" corner......variable pricing would probably be better.
<LI>A simple per united inch charge does not charge enough for the smaller mats, therefore the pricing probably needs to be weighted. The POS software that I currently use in our shop allows us to do this. Your Fletcher F-6100 is interfaced with all four major POS vendors:
Specialty Soft, Full Calc, LifeSaver and FerenSoft. This should make it a great deal easier to price consistantly for "complicated" designs.
<LI>Fletcher has a web site, where F-6100 owners can discuss these issues in a private forum. Go to:
The Fletcher-Terry Co.. I'm sure several discussions on this subject have developed.
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Regards,
John
Consultant to The Fletcher-Terry Co.
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The Frame Workshop of Appleton, Inc.
www.theframeworkshop.com
Appleton, Wisconsin
jerserwi@aol.com
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[This message has been edited by John Ranes II, CPF, GCF (edited February 25, 2001).]
