The Optical Shop - Frame Inventory Management program has been created with you in mind and is extremely simple to use. Why? Because over the years, practices similar to yours have told us that all they wish to do is to provide the best care for their patient/client needs but feel hampered by hours spent worrying about profitability loss and inventory control. Therefore we combined our expertise in the corporate and manufacturing world to create a software program that does away with the need to learn computer programming. The programming skills required to operate software applications that are intended to aid you in the day to day business of processing information, may be too labor intensive or complicated for your staff. The Optical Shop - Frame Inventory Management program anticipates your staff requirements effortlessly. Now with just a few keystrokes, The Optical Shop - Frame Inventory Management program, will allow you to do the following:

* Check-in and out product for complete inventory control with a direct link to Frames
   Data's SPEXupc CD to optionally automate data entry.
* Print reports/Graphs of inventory, sales vs. returned, transferred or backordered
   product.
* Print and Scan Bar Code labels of  product for better security and inventory control.
* Allow you to see which product is really selling to give you the ability to target your
   patient/clientele's preferences.
* Compare what your Costs vs. Sales really are.
* Compare what your inventory is like at year-end tax time.
* Maintain information on Brands/Manufacturers and accurate computation guidelines
   for automatic pricing of inventory via Brands/Mnf.
* Full Audit and Verification of your Inventory, Now know where your inventory went and
   why.

And most important, allow you to do this by simply filling in some blanks on the screen. Like the original DOS version, The Optical Shop - Frame Inventory Management is a true multi-user application that supports most forms of networking protocols that you would have in your office. Version 5.xx of The Optical Shop - Frame Inventory Management is now available as a 32/64bit GUI application with full multi-threading, multi-tasking so that many of the processes will run in the background without you being aware of it. This makes routines like reports compile for viewing or printing very fast.

The Optical Frame Inventory Management program for Windows had it's start in 1983 as a simple inventory control program created to run in the CPM and the early DOS environment. By 1992, it grew into a fully integrated, modular, user friendly Optical Practice Management system that is still in use in a number of practices to this day.  Software Reviews

Software/Hardware Requirements for Windows:
Operating system: MS Windows XP sp1, sp2. Pentium / AMD or compatible CPU processors capable of 800Mz speed or better.  Ram - 512Mb min. 1Gb recommended for single user systems. NOTE: Windows XP requires min 384Mb RAM just to run. Systems running concurrent applications require more memory than the 512Mb Frame Inventory requirement. This is for the Bar code Printer Drivers and whatever programs that must run on the installed system.  (Windows Vista Bus. SP1 requires a min. 1.8GHz Cpu and 2Gb. 400Mz RAM. As of Sept 07, 2008 or version 5.30, the software will run on the Vista Bus. SP1 platform!  Please be aware that Vista has issues with file certifications (locking/unlocking) and there are reports, industry wide, of security/file isues and lockups with Vista and multi-proccessor (Dual/Tri/Quad) processor CPUs.   Hard Drives - 250Mb of space required. Port's - 1 LPT, 1 USB type 2 or 2 USB type 2 for a standard printer and the Bar code Printer. Keyboard Wedge bar code scanner.
Recommended Hardware Accessories: DataMax E-4203 Thermal w/Ribbon Bar code Printer, Metrologic MS9500/9535BT Voyager Series Laser Scanner.
Supplies:   Arch Crown TT306/7,TT364, TT367/8 Mylar or TT316 Paper Thermal Transfer Labels (4000/2000 pr roll) w/Arch Crown 830, SO833 non-slip in clear / white or SO850 Op-Tags available in white.