Dear Commercial Lab Owner,

We are very excited to tell you about a new computer management system we are developing for your business. We’d like just a moment of your time to briefly explain why this system could greatly enhance your lab’s bottom line.

Unique Business Systems has been providing business management systems to photo labs for over seven years, primarily in retail labs. We have hundreds of labs using our FotoTrace and Power Lab systems, more than any other software vendor in the photo industry. Although our FotoTrace system meets some of the demands of both mini labs and commercial labs, we know the business needs and concerns of mini labs and commercial labs are very different in several areas.

For the past two years we’ve created a new Windows 98/NT management system, Power Lab, to replace our DOS product, FotoTrace. Early in 1998 we began working with commercial lab owners to develop a new Windows based management system specifically for commercial labs.

Here are some of the key features of the Power Lab commercial version:

DETAILED TRACKING BY DEPARTMENT – Tracks through definable departments with multiple employee and date/time stamp logs for department and production productivity reports.

TRACKING ORIGINAL MATERIALS – Original materials can be logged with every order for identification, tracking and return.

DECISION TREE ORDER ENTRY – Allows you to easily identify items and the options required to produce the correct product or service. Allows the system to automatically modify prices of jobs based on the options selected.

BLANKET PO NUMBERS – Tracks a declining Purchase Order balance over multiple invoices. Keeps track of P.O. expiration dates and warns if balances are less than the job amount.

MULTIPLE "BILL TO" & "SHIP TO" - Allows shipping of completed jobs to various customer locations. Also allows you to select a different "Bill to / Invoice to" address, depending on your customer’s preferences.

PRODUCTION TIMES – Allows you to define minimum and standard turnaround times for each job/service.

JOB SPLITS – Allows distribution of jobs into manageable pieces for production.

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If you would like more information on our commercial lab management system, please contact us at 1-800-669-4827.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

The Power Lab Development Team