Why Use Commander for Inventory and Invoicing?

QuickBooks Inventory Control and Point of Sale Modules have been designed to work in many different industries.  Included in this list are: Accounting Professionals, Contractors, Manufacturers, Non-Profits, Professional Services, Wholesalers and Distributors.  Many Retail operations such as beauty suppliers, arts & crafts centers, children’s clothing stores, souvenir shops, etc., also benefit from QuickBooks Inventory Control and Point of Sale Modules.

Your dealership is not a typical Retail Operation.  Our customers who have attempted to use QuickBooks to run their parts and service departments tell us it has two very distinct limitations: QuickBooks has limited part number storage and lacks the ability to automatically update parts price changes.

Limited Part Number Storage

QuickBooks has a combined limit of 14,500 customers, part numbers, and vendors.  Even the high-end Enterprise Edition of QuickBooks limits you to 29,000.  After the limit has been reached, you must delete some customers or products or vendors before you can create new inventory or sell additional products.  In your industry, just a few vendors and product lines can have upwards of 250,000 part numbers.  This means it is not possible for QuickBooks users to store all the part numbers from their vendors.  As  a result, it’s necessary for them to stop in the middle of a transaction if the part number they need to sell is not already in their system.  Does this sound familiar?

No Automatic Parts Price Changes 

We mentioned that just a few vendors in your industry could have upwards of 250,000 part numbers.  And, these part numbers and prices are changing continually.  If you ignore these changes, you’re going to be selling parts at prices that are too low.  This is a BIG profit leak!  While some say it’s possible to price parts one at a time by going to a vendor’s web site or thumbing through their directory, that’s going to be a difficult task at best.  And, who is going to get the assignment?  It may be you (the owner), or the parts manager, or maybe the service manager, or the bookkeeper or a counter person perhaps?  Who in your shop has time to keep this huge quantity of part numbers updated?

The Catch-22

So, there’s a problem here.  Dealers want to use QuickBooks because it’s excellent for financial management but do not fit the mold of a typical Retail Operation.

Commander Solves the QuickBooks Dilemma:

• Virtually Unlimited Part Number Storage
  
  Now it’s possible to store more than just the few thousand parts you have in stock.  What about all the items that you might have to special order?  Shouldn’t they be in your computer too?  Of course they should!  Not only should they be in your computer, they CAN be with a Commander System.  Then, when you special order parts, you don’t have to guess at the price or add the part number to your system before you can sell it.  Our software gives you the opportunity to put your hard drive space to work and load it up with all your vendors’ parts catalogs. 

• Automatic Parts Price Changes
  
  When your vendors change parts pricing, we send you a parts price update that will automatically bring all your prices to the current level.  There is no more manual changing of parts prices required.  We make it easy to sell at the highest updated price so that you can maximize your profit on every transaction.
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If you’re already using QuickBooks for financial management—continue to do so.  If you don’t have an accounting system, we recommend QuickBooks.  In either case, our Commander Software will enhance the productivity in your Parts and Service Departments and maximize your dealership’s profitability.