Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Among the many facilities in PI/E are sales tax report generation for state and federal
taxes; tracking of client sales, vendor costs, representative sales, and stock agency sales,
together with all payments associated with these transactions. You can use it to track
your crew and employee billings and costs, as a contact database for client contacts, and
to maintain equipment inventories and schedules. It generates a huge number of forms,
reports, lists, and labels for all phases of job production.
Comments
After so many years in the market, with a string of impressive-looking clients to its name,
it is surprising that PI/E is so poorly presented and explained. The vendor states the
obvious, such as “all forms print on your own letterhead.” (Well, yes, if you use your
own paper, but should that be listed as a primary feature?) Being built on FileMaker
Pro, it is undoubtedly a stable and reliable system. Any attempt to make an equivalent
solution from the tools in FileMaker would take weeks of work, but equally, a substantial
effort is needed to learn how to use PI/E. Photographers may find that administration
with this kind of tool is best delegated to an office manager.
Version: PI/E 6.3.18 (2008)
OS: Windows 98 or later; Mac OS 9 or later
Requires: FileMaker Pro 5.5 or 6.0
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: Major formats
Price level: Single user version $1,200, multi-user version $1,400
Address: RLW Concepts, 403 S. Curson, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States
www.piesoftware.com
StudioPlus
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Vendor: StudioPlus Software
Purpose: Studio-management software for portrait studios, in three editions plus OnLocation
module
Description
For professional photographic studios, StudioPlus is a family of software that combines
scheduling, marketing, client database, invoicing, and order tracking with a complete
digital workflow. It is designed to be a complete solution, bringing together other vital
software such as Photoshop, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, and ICVerify credit card
processing into one seamless suite that can accomplish every task you need to do. It even
works with a Palm or Pocket PC handheld computer.