[Sneck]

I write my own software.

I wrote a program for windows that is a Service Invoice program that does everything except payroll related stuff. I may build that functionality into it later. I have full accounts payable, sales history, Work In Process, Invoice Register, Customers, Multiple Tax Codes, Inventory Items to sell (like a part) on an invoice, and you can describe all the labor "story" you want to in an un-limited text field. The invoice can have both taxable and non-taxable items listed on the same invoice. It provides "true" cost of sales against each invoice because you can edit costs and sales figures specific for individual invoices. There are Sales Reports and Tax Reports, AR Reports etc. You can do a "vehicle due for service" search and find all the vehicles that are due for service. They can be due for service based on time or mileage. You can assign a vehicle to a customer, and with that you can develop your fleet customers and their vehicles and manage them easier than any other software I have tried.

It does a lot more, but in a nut-shell, it's a great program. I use it and my dad uses it for his service business and he totally loves it. He could not find anything off the shelf that he could buy that does what he needed it to, so I wrote it for him.
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I have a contact management program that's the bomb! I actually wrote it for my employer and use it constantly all day long in my job. Several other co-workers use it and would now be totally lost without it since its running on my employers server so we all have access to the contacts we develop. It uses key-word searching to find stuff fast. I put EVERYTHING that I need to remember in it, and everyone who uses it adds content to it so over a period of several years, it has grown and become a huge wealth of information that we can all access. We don't just use it for storing customer contact or vendor contact information, but we also use it to help us find "hard-to-find" parts or formulas... pretty much anything goes.

Yikes,... my keyboard is smokin !!! better stop now.

Sneck