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- From: rhw@att.com (Robert Wentworth)
- Subject: Help locating order-processing software for DOS?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:57:47 GMT
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- [First a general question, then a specific question.]
-
- GENERAL QUESTION
-
- Could anyone suggest a source of inexpensive MSDOS business software?
-
- (I've looked through the SIMTEL20 archives, for example, and found no
- business shareware whatsoever.)
-
- The main thing we're looking for is an order-handling program for a small
- mail-order plant nursery business. (Should keep track of orders, print
- packing lists, invoices, etc.)
-
- Of secondary interest would be programs for things like payroll, inventory
- control, and perhaps general accounting.
-
- The price target is: well below $1000 (below $500?). Except for a $100
- product which we can't locate, software packages that do what we want sell
- for on the order of $10,000. Way, way above what this very small business
- can afford.
-
- Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-
-
-
- SPECIFIC QUESTION
-
- As to the product that we can't locate, I'm trying to track down a company
- called
-
- The MicroTyme Network, Inc.
-
- which makes an "order-fulfillment" software product called
-
- "Easy Order"
-
- The company that used to market "Easy Order" for MicroTyme no longer does
- business with them. Says they used to be in San Diego, but perhaps have
- since moved to Atlanta. We haven't been able to locate this company in
- either place (though if it's a small company, we could have missed them). A
- relative of mine desperately wants a copy of "Easy Order" (which is the only
- inexpensive mailorder order-processing product he has heard of).
-
- If you have any pointers on how to contact this company or where to find
- a copy of this product, please let me know.
-
- Please respond by E-mail as I don't read this newsgroup very often.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Robert Wentworth
- rhw@hoh-1.att.com
- (908)888-7195
-