News
Peter van Kets
First African to cross the Atlantic rowing SOLO!
5500Kms & 76 Days at sea - that's 11 weeks man-aleen!!!
Well done Pete!
MangoSMS was used by the charity as a fund raiser sending daily updates to fans, loved ones and others
MangoSMS ver 1.3xx
Version 1.3 introduces "Relationships". When enabled this feature uses an
additional page in the send wizard to redirect SMSs from the selected contact to
the related "Person-of" the contact. This is an extreemely powerful feature, particularly useful for clubs and schools.
Use it to send SMSs to the mothers of grade 2 learners, the taxi drivers of
grade 3 learners, the "account contact" of grade 1, 2 & 3 learners ... etc. etc.
Improved performance - startup, GUI, and reduced memory footprint.
Purchase history is now displayed in the Mango, ready for printing options still to come.
MangoSMS ver 1.232
SMS delivery now with network confirmations.
Replies can be routed to Mango, cell-phone, other cell-phone or email. Scheduled messages can be recalled.
Mango Movies ver 7.131
latest version now with 5 great new reports and support for SMS replies
Peter van Kets
Rowing SOLO across the Atlantic !!!
Canary's - Antigua started 5 Jan 2010
Peter van Kets
is using MangoSMS for the 5400Km 2010 Atlantic Rowing Race -
Interview with Dispatch Online
More Mango Movies going in this year - Western Cape
Lemon & Lime DVD
Knysna, Plett & Sedgefield
now online
Mango Movies is a fully comprehensive video store management product.
It controls day to day tasks from stock, GRVs and sales, to cash-up and profit &
loss. Mango Movies' main emphasis is on business control. It has a strong security aspect
and forensic reports
that marry staff activity to stock discrepancies and cash. The consistent use of
SMS's extends service to customers and saves on the phone bill.
Mango Movies
will be your most productive and most responsible staff member you've ever had.
Windows product, low hardware requirement, feature-rich, quick to learn and easy to use.
Pin and password security with unlimited access levels
Staff rostering and a complete account of hours worked
Easy labeling - print movie box labels with bar codes for easy invoicing
Stock system intellegently follows store's rack/slot system
Quickfind searching at the invoice finds customers and stock instantly using
partial search as you type
Statistics on top movies, top customers and more
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Internet cafe control & sundry item sales
Extensive reports & graphs, with a few well designed all-in-one reports for
crutial business areas.
Complete breakdown of staff turnover
Hour by hour and day by day analysis of turnover to budget
Integrated SMS takes care of all the follow-ups for you - lates, dues, booked movies, customer birthdays etc.
Low hardware specification - Mango Movies will run on a basic XP machine. Bar code scanners are supported, touch screens
are supported, neither are required.
Fully comprehensive, fully network capable. Software is licensed per store, not per PC.
Subscription software - fixed monthly cost plus SMSs at special rate
Define contract options by genre, classification, format, etc.
Create specials by genre, classification, format, etc.
Define different prices for different days of the week
Setup specials for public holidays. Setup discount times of day - happy hour :-)
Limit specials and contracts to predefined validity periods.
Allow for adjustable units on contracts, determined at point of sale
Intelligent booking system automatically finds available copies of movies
Hire movies, sell sundries or contracts and pay fines all on one invoice
Unlimited family members per account each with their own photo ID
Customer hire trends show what movies customers like to watch
Control bonus discs and be notified to add them to the invoice
Reward system for the timely return of movies
System allows for workshop/broken stock
SMS custom messages to individual / selected / filtered / all customers - replies come back to PC
Staff tracking logs all security violations performed by staff members
Daily cashup shows turnover, cash, card, petty cash drawings from till etc. on a single report
R350 Monthly subscription includes site license, product updates, telephone
support.
Video stores typically use
800-1000 SMS per month at a special rate of R300 per
1000.
Meet the team, meet the product
Please send us an email and one of our
sales consultants will contact you directly. Although Mango Movies is quick to
install, there are usually many other aspects that the business owner needs to
discuss, typically changing from existing systems, data conversions, staff
training and implementation. This product runs every aspect of your business,
and we'll be there to walk you through it.
On the product side, Mango Movies has been in service since 2004. Through client
feedback and active participation in the Video industry, many features have been
added. It is now undoubtedly the most comprehensive video store managment
product in Africa. New product sales indicate that we're on the right track. On
the support side development is current with many improvements just recently
published. We've had a lot of feedback lately, most of these have been aspects
that could be addressed better and will be attended to.
Mangobytes is committed to developing the best video store product in the world !
So give us a call, and let Mango Movies impress you !