The AIMS Wire -- January 2010

Vol. 12, No. 1

AIMS is a

Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.

AIMS is a

Microsoft "Front Runner."  Our software is built on the latest Microsoft technologies--in this case SQL Server 2008.

AIMS is proud to be the first and possibly the only company in the jobber software business to achieve the "Works with Server 2008 designation," said David Dorries, Director of Sales and Marketing for AIMS.

"Our customers use and rely on our products to perform their critical daily business operations.  Verifying our software with the latest Microsoft server operating system helps customers feel confident in AIMS' ability to meet their needs today and in the future." 

Shift some of your customer service and inquiry load over to a Customer Web Portal!

COMPAS 8.0 users are aware that AIMS soon plans to roll out a Customer Web Portal feature that will let them post such things as customer invoices, price quotes and EFT notices on the web for retrieval by their customers "24X7."

COMPAS Commander users, your Customer Web Portal is planned!  Work we are doing now to Commander's new document archive feature will provide the origin of the customer documents that the Commander web portal will host. 

Instead of digging out lost invoices or credit card settlement reports and re-sending them to a customer, just direct your customer to your Customer Web Portal and let them find and download the documents they need.  They will appreciate the greater ease of doing business with you due to the modernization of your ability to give them the information they need.

Valuable retail location fuel sales reports

Station Fuel Inventory Report:  You run this report by fiscal period.  It will show, for each product at a particular company-owned or consigned location, the calculated average cost, the beginning quantity at the start of that fiscal period, quantity of product received, quantity sold, adjusted quantity, quantity transferred in or out, quantity blended into or out of, and the ending inventory.  It will also show the dollar value of your ending inventory.

Station Fuel Profit by Date:  You can run this report by date range.  It shows, for each fuel product, the quantity sold, the monetary value of the sold product, the average retail price per gallon, total COGS, cost per gallon, total profit and the profit per gallon for each sale.

Station Fuel Sales:  You can select up to four product groups (for example, diesel, gasoline, ethanol, bio) and then select the fiscal period.  It will show you the total quantity sold, the gross profit on sales and the profit per gallon.

These reports, and several more retail location fuel performance reports, are available in both COMPAS 8.0 and COMPAS Commander in the Service Station Reports group.

Need to add a temporary user?

If the occasion ever requires you to need additional users, temporarily, for your AIMS system, AIMS will be happy to work with you in this way:  You purchase the additional user license at its normal price.  You have two months to utilize the new user license.  If you contact AIMS and request de-activation of the new license within two months, AIMS will issue you full credit on the user license.

Keep in mind that adding a new user to COMPAS 8.0, AUTOSEND, AUTOSIR and COMPAS Commander will also involve minor software acquisitions for runtimes or access licenses as the case may be.  Expenditures for required system software are not refundable, but such expenditures are minor compared to the price of the AIMS user license.

Contact Arrah Cicala (318-323-2467, ext. 9339) if you need to add a temporary user.

Attention CFN affiliates

In mid-December, CFN announced changes in the format of its PT file.  The stated deadline for commencement of the use of the new PT file format is April 1, 2010.

Be assured that AIMS is on top of the situation and will make the programming changes necessary for compliance with the new CFN file format.  This work will be done under the terms of your current User License Agreement  and there will be no surcharges to your company from AIMS.

 


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