With its ability to organise your business, generate fast quotes, manage stock, and provide for remote working, Clarity’s MIS can give every sign and digital printer a better working life.
Every business aspires to increase sales, reduce costs and scale to unprecedented levels.Clarity Software, the industry’s most widely used software provider, helps sign, print and display companies achieve their dreams through organisation, optimising job profit and winning more orders at top margin.
Clarity improves efficiency from day one and returns profit to a business in a controlled way. The design of the software has been considered carefully so it can be implemented in stages, removing the need to overhaul your entire business overnight and risk upsetting your loyal staff.
Joining up sales and operational processes into one package makes working life easier, more productive and more profitable. For this reason, sign makers and printers using manual or fragmented spread sheet systems experience clear charted growth on implementing Clarity.
Freedom to work anywhere
Clarity’s online CRM system changes the game for sales teams, with a simple way to create, send and manage sign and print quotes on the move. With the cloud-based system Clarity Go, the days of quoting bottlenecks are over and you are selling all the time.
By estimating jobs and finalising precise quotations from anywhere, there are no more delays in releasing quotes, no more reasons to go back to the office, and no dead time sat on a train accruing cost of sale. Print estimators and sales people will find a new freedom in their role, to work to their optimum performance levels and manage their time more productively.
Quote fast for any job of any size
Thousands of global users raise and confirm millions of sign and print quotes every year with Clarity. It makes it easy to estimate accurately for jobs, including built-up and vinyl letters, fascia and folded panels, wide format displays, direct to rigid substrate print, totems and way-finding and cut and fabrication work.
As customers require more and more flexibility in their signs and graphics to stay fresh, being able to offer a variety of sign and display options from one house wins more business in today’s market. And flexible quoting using Clarity’s advanced cost calculators for any sign or print job means you can cost the entire finished project and not just one process, which is essential for overall profit on a job.
You know you can rely on your estimates to be accurate. Unexpected costs are wiped out. The mystery, assumption and guesswork are removed and you have full traceability back to the original quote. With Clarity you can share the estimating confidently across the team, knowing your margins are secure. It makes estimating fast and simple for all bespoke and catalogue item jobs, so you can expand your portfolio and beat the competition.
Get organised and reach dream levels of profitability
An integrated MIS, bringing together all functions of the business, ensures jobs are right first time every time. Customised works orders and job sheets generated in one click detail the exact requirements of each job. An automatically generated folder structure offers a central place for all PDFs, artwork files and other job documents to be stored.
Errors, wastage and stock holding are reduced through clever stock management, yielding huge cash benefits. Client needs that are often lost in translation are retained, with everyone knowing what is involved on a job. Integrated purchase and requisitioning features mean you can be smarter with your ordering and spend only when you need to. Your cash stays in your bank and not on your shelves.
Duplication of data entry is reduced by sending invoices, part-invoices and credit notes raised in Clarity directly to leading accounts packages Sage and QuickBooks.
And the access to hundreds of standardised and configurable reports drives your decision-making, giving you visibility of your true job costs, best sellers, live stock levels and more, increasing growth and profitability.
Make more from your roll stock
Huge advancements in the management of roll stock in Clarity take the sign and digital print sectors into new levels of efficiency. Clarity manages the usage of partial rolls and off-cuts, adding remainders of roll media back into stock with new stock IDs.
Suddenly jobs which may have been scheduled to a new roll can be re-allocated to an existing one, saving on set-up times and material wastage.
Sell online from your MIS
Clarity WebShop is the easiest way to get selling sign and print products online. It allows you to manage your stock for sale on your website directly from your Clarity MIS, removing the need to log into separate systems.
Consistent pricing is easy to look after and stock quantities are controlled so you do not sell anything you have not got. Orders drop straight into Clarity, triggering the sales order process and creating a 24/7 sales operation within the business.
Proof of delivery on jobs
Clarity Proof of Delivery (POD) joins the outside world and your office together. Clarity’s onsite tracking app, available on Apple and Android, means you are always in control of your site installs and deliveries by directly connecting you to your site jobs.
POD guarantees satisfaction and payment for jobs by obtaining proof of delivery on your mobile device and adding photo and signature evidence on your invoices.
It saves in fuel expenses and hours in manual administration by going paperless, and accelerates cash flow by eliminating the waiting period for documents to arrive back at the office.
One solution
Clarity brings the whole business together. Website, marketing, sales, order processing and reporting functions operate within one joined up solution, enabling you to give customers exceptional service and keep staff fully informed at every stage.
High profile companies using Clarity include Sign Specialists, MediaCo, Signbox, Magellan World, Applelec, Trade Signs, Dufaylite, Data Image Group, LightBrigade Media, Octink and Hollywood Monster.
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