Welcome back again STRANGER. Yes a lot has gone on here. How The shop going. I was layoff when the owner left town and have now open my own place. Self-employment is too much work. I can see why I didn't want to do, I knew.
As for your question, Try them all and pick what works for you. The freeware that's given away on this board was been reworked with y2k fixes and I've been using it in my new place. I've been surprized that it works well for my needs. I take my orders with it, it has a calendar the shows order due dates where you can change the duedate or mark the order complete. I then print all my invoices and print my sales tax report. It also prints molding sample labels, does customer lists and labels.
The bad news is you have to input your own molding data. It took me a full day to do that. You also must read the doc's or forget it. The frame order menu can be modified and you can add specialty items that you do along with pricing formula's. This can be tough the first time. It's also an old DOS based product but I use it in a dos window from win98. Tip: You must use an dos printer, window only printer don't work. I'm using an old HP IIP+ lasar that I got for under $100.00 and it works great. No support is a real problem, however the source code is also online thats how I fixed the y2k problems.
The good news is it's FREE. It works for me. You can also use the program on old cheap computers.
framer
[This message has been edited by framer (edited June 06, 2000).]