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Doing business your way.
Since 1978 CustomWare® Designs has designed customized business applications for over 300
industries
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SAMPLE OF INDUSTRIES
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Temporary Staffing
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Cabinet Manufacturer
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Door Manufacturer
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Silk Screening
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Distribution
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Property Management
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Pest Control
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Tool Retailing
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Transportation
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Gift Shop
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Record Storage
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Martial Arts Dojos
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Dance Studios
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Travel Industry
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Vending
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Pipe Manufacturing
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Broadcaster Schools
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Chemical Manufacturer
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National Motel Chain
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Clothing Manufacturer
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Sports Equipment/Clothing Retailer
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Cab Companies
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Boat/Marine Dealers
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Car Distributors
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in 29 countries for thousands of small to global-sized companies. CustomWare® is the "base" software with which we start. With over 130 user settings, CustomWare® can be used right "out of the box." Special needs are economically and quickly integrated to make CustomWare® do business your way.
If you are looking for affordable customized, integrated business software with turn-key features, with or without internet integration, you have found the right place!
What jobs will CustomWare© do?
For a manufacturing or distribution company it will do payroll, purchase orders, inventory control, inventory level optimization, work-in-progress, labor distribution, job costing, order entry, accounts receivable, accounts payable, etc. In other words, whatever business you're in, CustomWare© will help you run your business, your way, without your having to change the way you run things.
The Cost?
Virtually nothing. If CustomWare© cannot save you money--you really don't need CustomWare©. Users of CustomWare© save money, directly and indirectly.
The true cost of software short and long term
Whenever you’re buying a customized product whether it be furniture, art, or anything else, you typically associate it with a higher cost. This is because it requires work to create the product specifically for you and also carries a higher risk if you choose not to purchase the product after it is made. Most people keep this same association when talking about software as well, but is this true? Is custom software really more expensive than off the shelf or packaged software?
Initial Costs of Custom Software
While the initial cost of custom software does not always carry a higher initial price than premade software, the premade software is oftentimes offset by the lack of features you need or will need in the future. Premade software is designed to fit the needs of as many people as possible. This means the intention of the software does not revolve around your specific problem but rather the most common denominator. You may end up finding a premade solution that seems like it will fit your exact needs, but as your needs change the software remains the same. With more expensive premade software there is almost always a monthly/yearly service fee which adds to the ongoing cost even though the service fee does not cover customization for your needs.
When you purchase custom software, it is designed with your specific needs in mind. This allows you to fully automate a specific process that could be taking up large amounts of your employees’ time. However, when you use a premade software, you’ll usually need an employee dedicated to pulling as much value from that software as they can. With custom software, that value becomes extremely apparent allowing it to simply work instead of you figuring out how it can work for you.
So, while purchasing custom software may carry a higher initial cost, it reduces your overall expenses in learning how to use that software. It also saves time for your employees by making the value of the software apparent instead of requiring your employees figuring out the best way to use it.
When is Custom Software the Least Expensive Option?
Custom software truly shines when you have a specific problem you want solved with that software. This allows your development company to create a solution tailor made for your specific problem. The most common case of custom software becoming the least expensive option is the automation of a specific business process.
CustomWare® is a bit of both packaged and custom. What makes CustomWare® different is the design and programming language that allows for much faster modifications/customizations or brand new applications.
Automating a specific business process can quickly become an extremely complex task once you dig into every role that process performs. Oftentimes, it requires an iterative process to truly refine the automation. When you use a custom software to automate the process, it allows you to fine tune how the software works through updates made for you.
Using CustomWare Designs, an experienced software development company, to create the automation you need also allows you to find other areas of your processes that can be automated. We can then incorporate these additional automations into a single, comprehensive software system. You can also continue to develop customized software, so it can grow alongside your organization. This saves your company and employees time from integrating new software as your needs grow. They’ll continue to work with the same software as they were before just with additional functionality.
It is for all these reasons as well as our prompt service that companies stay with CustomWare Designs for decades upon decades.
What all this means to you.
It means eliminating the costly expenses of updates. It means no delays in getting jobs done. Savings to you of tens of thousands of dollars initially, and tens of thousands of dollars a year, every year, in low operating costs. Just a few days after you install CustomWare©, you'll be doing your invoicing, your statements, your purchase orders.
As we said before, incredible, BUT TRUE.
And remember, when you want to change something, you can, as a result of your needs, not the needs of the software.
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