PRIORITY News
March Madness Finals Discount
Internet Fundraising
Inventory Reduction Project
NOW Is the Time....To Update SOFTWARE
Use WinUltra’s Export Routines!
Sample Reports
Tally Frozen?

Jan 2005

• Consignment / Gift Shops. A continuation of the discussion started in the January issue of RUNTIME, including recommended product mixes, price ranges, a sample pricing strategy

Feb 2005

• Spring / Summer Income Generation Projects. More than what you’ll read in this letter on the concept of Consignment Shops, especially for Mother’s Day, Liquidation Sales and Clearance Sheets. Read my interview with a Truckload Sales expert. Priority readers may request a complimentary PowerPoint Presentation.

Joan and I are Kentucky grads and one of our sons goes to Duke. March is good (unless those two play each other). Take advantage of these discounts while we’re still in the running.

All In Stock Forms

ULENV Money Collection Envelopes
ULENV5 Collection Envelopes w/Labels
ULPSLIP1 Pack Slips w/Labels – continuous
ULPSLIP2 Pack Slips w/Labels – laser
Q3101 Continuous Order Forms

Double Discount

Normally - 5% on 5  - NOW 10% on 5 cases
Normally - 10% on 10 Cases - NOW 20% on 10 Cases

Triple Discount

Check or credit card with order.

15% on 5 Cases
30% on 10 Cases

WinUltra / WinScan

Software / Upgrades - 20% off

• Add your company logo to your reports and print in color. Upgrade your image or set yourself apart with completely redesigned reports.
• Bad Designator entry / reporting. You either have no idea what the customer wants – or you want to indicate that you made a "best guess", this feature prints on the seller pack slip and also on a separate report.
• Class/Team Distribution Sheets. If you’re delivering to the gym, these large print sheets serve to identify the classrooms.
• Group Reservation Module helps keep track of your groups, status and results.
• Pop-up / look-up screens in Inventory and Brochures for faster entry.
• Laser Label, UCollect and Cashbox Cashier modules included.
• UTally replaces Merge Disk for enhanced customer or rep remote entry. Email results.
• 6-digit designator capability.
• Increased security gives you more control.
• Quickbooks Interface Enhancements. Send inventory or customer data from QB to WinUltra or from WinUltra to QB. Turn tally results into itemized QB invoices and WinUltra’s To Order Reports into QB Purchase Orders.

More at www.qdpcorp.com/products/winultra/whatsnew.htm. Call for a sample printout packet.

50% off Spring/Summer Training...

...Your Place or Ours. Schedule soon.

Control your own destiny with our patent-pending process...

• Sellers can log in and view sales totals.
• Add/remove shipping charges per group. Ex: Online fundraiser where all orders are going to the school and you want to offer free shipping…or you're doing free shipping at a lower profit percentage.
• Choose Y/N for Alaska and Hawaii – or charge higher rates for those orders. (Yes, they will order).
• Add a message about the group’s sale that appears on the brochure screen.
• Customers can order without creating an account.
• More options for payment and shipping charges.
• Run fundraising and discount stores simultaneously.
• Use with your own Gift Card or Certificate to enable customers to order from your overstocked inventory.

See a demo at www.QDPCorp.com/store

For the rest of the list, visit...

www.qdpcorp.com/products/webultra/ecommerce.htm.

Spring / Summer Income Generation Projects for your reps

Mother’s / Father’s Day

Sell now to set up shops in April for Parents’ Days sales. Reduce inventory while having another reason to be in the building.

Include discount incentives to keep more of what you send. See February’s PRIORITY News for suggested discounts, a listing of groups to target -- and take advantage of the PRIORITY readers’ PowerPoint Presentation offer.

Liquidation Sales

You already have a warehouse sale. Organize overstocks into a Liquidation “cash, carry and no returns” list.

Put your list (with pictures) on your web site. Provide your reps with a printed list, some color sheet sample pictures (or sample product). Use postcard and eMail marketing to link people to your automatically updated web sale list.

Promote Liquidation Sales as a group’s opportunity to "buy like the fundraiser buys". If you want your reps to promote the idea, you need to build in "full" commission. Additional ideas:

Remote Warehouse Sales. We rented a town’s park building for a 1-day sale experiment. Even with product handling and transportation, it was a popular sale, which we’ll repeat and expand. More in PRIORITY News.

Considered wholesale lots on eBay?

Flea Markets are big in Indiana and some people who set up booths to sell their home-crafted items need to supplement their offerings.

Find Work From Home folk to purchase product to sell or solicit places to sell it./p

Product Clearance Sheets for higher percentage tags for under $.25/copy. Scan brochure pictures to make sell sheets or email Sara@QDPCorp.com to do it for you.

More in PRIORITY News. Subscribe today for $49.

QDP discounts software now because it is easier for you (and us) to get up and running during the less hectic spring season.

To start or improve your web presence

You should be showing SPRING and posting FALL.... Especially if your site is still showing your 2001 brochures and/or nobody’s calling, contact Sara@qdpcorp.com.

To Add Internet Fundraising

Tally and pack is no longer an advantage – it is expected. Internet fundraising will go the same way. Be on the cutting edge instead of scrambling to catch-up when your competitor cleans your clock.

To consider on-site computer training

Schedule Dennis before he’s booked. We’re regularly amazed when someone asks for a feature that we explain is already in the program. Find out what WinUltra, WinScan, TeleForm and TallyScan can really do for you.

Setting up the line

The warehouse manager comes and asks for a listing of product to set up the line. She wants to set up in "designator" order with all of one vendor’s products together.

Export Brochure File to Excel. I exported the entire Brochure File for Spring to an Excel Sheet. I deleted the programs we don’t inventory (i.e. frozen) and then "sorted" by designator. I deleted the columns my manager didn’t need and printed her list. Time at task was about 10 minutes.

Special Product Listing

You want to create Liquidation Lists to include product you are sufficiently "blessed" with.

Export Inventory File to Excel. I exported the inventory file to Excel, sorted by "available" and deleted items not to be included.

What do you need to export?

If we don’t already have a report designed, you can get just about any info OUT of WinUltra and INTO whatever program you’re using.

Gift Shops

Inventory Worksheet. Print with columns of blanks for easy group record keeping. When they return handwritten worksheet, enter quantities and provide a Final Billing version.

Pack Slip printed per box.

Price List can be by price or description. Show group cost plus one or two mark-up options. Then, group has a set of blanks to price differently.

Fundraising

Sample of Laser Report with logo. Put logos on your Summary Reports, Class/Team Reports and Invoicing. Improve your image.

We’ve been tallying fundraising orders for more than two decades. If you’re using frozen product and having those items ship direct to the group, you can still offer tallying and provide pack slips for them.

Tagging frozen with another brochure? No problem. With WinUltra, you can print separate pack slips for your different brochures. You can scan the product from one brochure w/o the frozen being considered.

Thanks for reading.

Last Modified:& 03/24/2005