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P1Wired Photography Studio Management had a new release today for our photographers. Here is a list of the new features:

1. Activity and Interest tabs have been added to the Customer file.
2. A Payment button has been added to the Order screen so that you can click directly through from Oder to Payment.
3. Emails now include the ability to attach files.
4. Export data to a CSV file.
5. A button was added so that deleting sample data can be triggered by the user when appropriate.
6. P1Wired now handles credit card swiping.
7. Embedded “How-to” Videos in the application.
8. Moved the Event locations and vendors to the Event form.
9. Created a Contact Us form – http://studiomanagement.com/”YourDomain“/ContactUs.html.
This will enter a Prospect’s data directly to your Customer/Prospect list.
10. Trial version of Client Access. This can be accessed using the Client Access link on the Customer Add/Edit Aditional Page. This generates a link that can be provided to your clients so that they can review proposals, accept them, sign a contract and make a payment. The “How-To” video is on its way.
11. New Follow Up window off of Additional Features. This will display any emails or communications that need to be addressed.

The developers are a day early with their new release of P1Wired Photography Studio Management. A Client Access feature has been added along with refinements to Workflow and other features. We have also embedded video tutorials in the software so that you don’t need to “go anywhere” when looking for more info on a feature. Thank you for all the feedback, especially since WPPI 2010, and we are scheduled for our next New Release in June.

P1Wired developers have been busy since WPPI 2010 and will have a new release April 1st of P1Wired Photography Studio Management. We had new features “in the works” before the show and the feedback from WPPI helped prioritize development.

What’s New:

1. P1Wired wants you to own your data. You can export your data to a CSV file with a click of a button.

2. “How-To” videos embedded in P1Wired. You can open a video right in the program to review the feature you are looking to use — there is no need to go somewhere else in the program or on a website to review. This is a big time saver and allows you to quickly review the task at hand.

3. Client Access is now LIVE. This new feature allows a prospect or client to generate a Proposal, e-sign a Contract, make a Payment and auto-generate a confirmation E-Mail.

4. You can now add attachments to e-mails.

5. There are Interest and Activity tabs in the client page. You can now mark a prospect or client to an Interest or Activity which will allow you to refine your marketing with MailChimp.

These new features were developed with “Simple and Easy” as a primary goal. This is important constant as we develop a studio management software for photographers that adds value to your daily work flow. Please keep the comments and feedback coming.

We are going live with P1Wired for WPPI 2010 — an easy and fun photography studio management software for photographers. The press release is out today. Come by booth #1315 at WPPI to see the new studio management software application and all the features it has to offer. We are also running a special during the show for photographers.

We have incorporated many of the best features from PhotoOne and have included many new features. P1Wired runs in your browser on a Mac, PC or smartphone and gives you the freedom to run your business from anyplace you desire.

P1Wired is a Photography Studio Management software application that’s designed to run in your browser using a Mac or PC. It will be the core software to manage your business and ultimately integrate and connect with other software tools and remote capabilities. Although P1Wired is a new application, it shares many of the best features of PhotoOne, our desktop studio management application that has been an industry leader for over 15 years.

We coded P1Wired in Adobe Flex to provide you a state-of-the-art experience.

As you enter P1Wired you’ll notice that we’ve set up the application with four main areas:

1. We’ve got five icons along the top: Contacts, Calendar, Accounting, Dashboard and Reports. Let’s take a quick look at these features.

First we’ll click on Contacts. The Contacts section allows you to keep a record of your Vendors, Relationships, Payees and Family.

Next, let’s look at the Calendar feature. The Calendar is set up to give you any number of different views, whether daily, weekly or monthly. It also allows you to color code the calendar to make quick visual distinctions. The calendar syncs with Google calendar so an appointment in P1Wired will appear in Google calendar, allowing you access with your iPhone and other handheld devices.

Now let’s click on Accounting. The Accounting feature allows you to tie into order entry. It also allows you to keep track of deposits and expenses through multiple bank accounts. All of this is managed from a central hub called Chart of Accounts which allows you to bucket receipts, expenses, liabilities, assets, and cost of goods sold which will offer you valuable reporting and metrics when analyzing your business.

The Dashboard is a quick snapshot of your business. You can quickly look at today’s weather, review appointments entered on your calendar screen, review sales figures for the month and the previous 3 months along with the cash receipts that have been deposited in the bank. And you can review all open orders and associated balances to allow you to better manage the receivable aging process.

Finally, the Reports feature will provide you with a screen or printed summary of what’s going on in your photography business. Do you want to cross check your P1Wired checking entries against your bank entries? Do you want to run a quick Profit/Lost statement? Or do you want a transaction history by accounts? This will be all part of P1Wired.

2. Right underneath the Icons is a complete Client/Prospect list which is always active. Here you can quickly and easily access a client or prospect and add, delete or edit their profile.

3. Underneath the Client/Prospect listing is the Calendar. As we mentioned earlier, this is another easy and intuitive access point to your appointments letting you see when and where resources are allocated.

4. In the large blank area of the page is the Workspace or the “Make It Happen” area. When you click on any of the features in P1Wired they will open in the “Make it Happen” area which will provide a large work area for you to get your daily activities accomplished. When it’s not being used, you have the option of displaying your studio’s logo or image.

We have also included a Setup function that is accessed through the little wrench icon in the top right-hand portion of the page. As you enter into the Setup function you are able to customize your Customers, Products, Calendar, Orders, Accounting and Security. Each one of these features can be tailored to capture the information unique to your business. For example, if you go into the Customer section of Setup you will find that the Customer can be tagged within a Category and Sub Category. This will help you when you are looking to filter the data before running a report.

The client, through their order, can also be tagged with a Chart of Account and Relationship type allowing for additional client profiling when analyzing your business.

Another great feature in Setup is the Security feature. Here you can quickly and easily set up each employee or user’s clearance profile. Admin will have full clearance, but you may want only limited clearance for an employee based on experience or their role in the studio.

These are just some of the outstanding features of P1Wired! There are many more like credit card processing, multiple color schemes for the application, invoicing, sales tax, promotion capability, email and many others.

Go ahead — try out P1Wired for 30 days. Click the Free Trial button in the top right-hand corner of our website – p1Wired.com. We don’t need your credit card so go ahead and get started! Thanks and we look forward to having you as a member of P1Wired