Cyrious Software Releases New Version of Control with Added Price Lock Feature

2/10/2012 - 9:33 p.m.

Baton Rouge, LA - Cyrious Software released Control© version 4.6  which contains a new Price Lock feature.  Price Lock allows an  individual order to be protected from any price changes when  factors such as part costs, materials used, and machines utilized are changed.  Thus, certain order details can be edited without causing a change in the total order price.  Discussions with managers of sign and graphics companies made it clear that this feature will save employees a significant amount of time from having to adjust the price back to the approved price.

 

Here is how Price Lock can be ...

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Upcoming Webinar: See how Wagner Signs uses Dashboards to save over 8 hours a day.

1/25/2012 - 7:50 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Time: 2pm EST

 

Learn how Wagner Signs is saving this kind of time:

-11 hours/week in production.

-The Production Manager saves 2 hours/day.

-7 ½ hours/week in preparing orders for production.

-7 ½ hours per week in invoicing.

-5 hours/week in sales.

-2 ½ hours/week in shipping.

 

To register & get full webinar details, visit this page: Wagner Signs Webinar

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Quickly Access Control Training: Put Links on Your Dashboard

1/11/2012 - 8:26 p.m.

There is a useful instrument that you can add to your Dashboard within Control to conveniently access frequently visited URLs, files and more.

 

 

Instrument Name: Shortcuts

 

What it does: Creates a list of links that you can access with a click: URLs, Files, Actions, and Reports.

 

How you can use it: Add a list of URLs for Control training videos and other materials on the web.

 

How to set it up:

1. On your dashboard,  Select “Add Instrument

  1. 2. From the drop-down menus, Choose “General” > “Shortcuts
  2. 3. In the top right hand corner of ...

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4 Marketing Tools for Your Sign Business

1/5/2012 - 9:09 p.m.

A new leaf. A fresh start. Whatever metaphor you use, the new year is upon us. I know many of us have goals, plans and strategies laid out to make this year our most successful yet. Well, in terms of adding more customers and increasing sales, I'd like to share 4 of my favorite marketing tools that make the daunting task a bit easier and you may even have a bit of fun in the process.

 

Contributor: Kristen Simmons, Marketing Associate for Cyrious Software

 

1. Animoto (www.animoto.com)

Why it's great:

It's incredibly easy ...

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Acorn Sign Graphics

12/3/2011 - 2:20 a.m.
With Cyrious Software you always have accurate information about what you're producing, who you're invoicing, and when projects are due.  The estimate becomes you work order, and your work order becomes your invoice.  You only have to input something once.  You can even print your invoices to PDF and email them.  That's a dramatic time savings.    We couldn't do the kind of volume we do with the number of people we have without Cyrious Software.  I think we often get the job because our estimation is three or four days ahead of the competition.  We can ...

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