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In-Contact Features

The main features of 'In-Contact' are described below. However, we are contantly adding new features based on customer feedback and have a long list of requested features that will be added in due course. If you don't see what you want then do get in contact as it may be just round the corner.

Contacts and Companies

Enter every detail your need for every contact and company you do business with. You can enter customers, private addresses and company details. Even if you don't find all the fields you want to enter information you can easily add your own fields. Once added they just become part of your system like any other field.

All correspondence can also be recorded - details of letters sent or received, phone calls, e-mails and any other communication can be easily recorded and viewed.

Bookings

'In-Contact' is an excellent bookings system and specialises in all things booking related. You can create your own events and then quickly locate an available slot when someone calls you. Enter a few details and the booking is complete. Confirmations can be printed, emailed or even sent using SMS! You can keep a full financial record for each contact and company so you know exacly who owes you what and why.

Diaries

Diaries allow you to manage your events, courses, staff and resources. You can create new events and courses, and add them to your diaries. Using the 'recurring event' you can quickly set up events and courses to occur weekly or monthly. Staff and resources also have diaries, so at a glance you can see exacly what is going on.

Finance

You can keep track of exactly who owes you money, how much has already been paid, and who you owe money to. Financial reports give you an accurate picture of income and expenses as well as debtors and creditors.

Built in invoicing allows you to raise and track invoices, so there really is no need for a separate accounts package. This removes all the problems associated with exchanging information with other packages. However, in the event that you did need to do this, all the reports are exportable in csv, pdf and excel format.

Staff

Never know where your staff are? The built in staff planner allows you to see at a glance what everyone is doing. You can book staff onto events and courses, enter staff sick time and holidays, and view a diary for each staff member. Each staff member can easily see what courses they are running.

Resources

Resources cover a whole set of items that you need in order to run your courses and events. For example, you may need a projector to run a training course, or a pool car to visit a customer. As these resources are often shared you will want to book them to make sure they are available, and to prevent double booking.

By entering all your resources onto 'In-Contact' you can book them whenever you need them. It is then very easy to see what resources are being used and when, and if a resource is not available you can see who has booked it and for what.

Full Reporting

You can keep a good eye on all that is going on using the built in reports. Reports are grouped into 4 main areas:

Financial reports: Income, expenses, invoices, banking, debtors, creditors, advertising, promotions.

Event reports: Event vacancies, events filled, pass rates, diary in text.

Contact reports: Contacts input or updated, recent correspondence, contacts with no bookings, booking dates to be arranged.

Staff reports: Staff contact details, staff activity.

Each of these reports is customisable by filtering, sorting and grouping so you can get exactly the information you want. You can also export in PDF and Excel formats.

Call centre management

Because 'In-Contact' is fully customisable you can modify the input screens using your own scripts. You can place text, prompts and advice information so that someone taking a call will know exactly what to say to a customer. We offer full assistance when setting up your scripts, so you won't have to struggle.

SMS text messages

'In-Contact' has built in SMS text messaging. You can send text messages to your customers, staff, or in fact any UK mobile number. All messages are fully audited so you can see what was sent as well.

SMS can also be integrated with the booking confirmations - have the booking confirmation sent directly to the customers' mobile phone whilst they are on the phone to you!

Email integration

All correspondence can be emailed directly from within 'In-Contact', there is no need for a separate email program. You can also have copies sent to another email address so you can track what other staff are sending.

Online booking

We will shortly be releasing two new features to allow you to generate extra income using 'In-Contact'. Using your own diaries you will be able to publish your events and courses directly onto the Internet and allow customers to book into them. All the booking details will go straight into 'In-Contact' so there is no duplication. Please contact us if you wish to know more about these facilities.

Fully configurable

Everything within 'In-Contact' can be changed by yourself to get it to work the way you want. All of the input screens can be modified, you can add fields, remove fields, and create fields of your own. You can create your own events and courses, change the confirmation letters, update prices, add and remove promotions and change anything else you need to.

Security

You can choose who can log in to your system and who can see what. For example, you can restrict who can get to the finances, or who can take a booking. You can also restrict who can view the reports on a 'per report' basis.

All changes are audited, In-Contact keeps a note of who input a contact and when, and who was the last person to update a contact and when. There is no dispute as to who was responsible for changing something.

Fully backed up

All the data you enter into 'In-Contact' is fully backed up, so there is no chance of you loosing any data. Every hour the data from our servers is replicated to a backup server in a completely different geographical location. This server is ready to take over in the event of failure of our main servers. This has never happened but it is important to plan for the worst.

The data is also backed up onto 'hard copy' DVDs each week and taken to a third location, giving you complete peace of mind. You get the backup you need without having to physically do the backing up yourself.

Report Scheduler

Need the income report every Friday morning? If you need reports generated at regular intervals you can add them to the scheduler. They will get generated at sepcific times and e-mailed to you in PDF or Excel format. You can also send the reports to other people to keep them informed.