Software News and Updates

We have entered year four of the development and things begin moving fast. More and more dive centers all around the world have applied DiveShopManager to their dive centers during the last three month. The time is more than ripe to start working with a reliable software to organize the ever growing load of paperwork in a dive center. The DiveShopManager Community is steadily growing and we have had a lot of feedback from our users. Lately we have made many small adjustments to the software according to those individual wishes.

Now we have great news from our development center; the dive center software DiveShopManager has just been updated and a new version has been released with this update. DSM 2.03 has now even more statistic views and print possibilities. For example the Sales/Article part of the customer invoice has now a separate print button for detail printing in case of warranties. Additionally some more specific print possibilities have been added to the cash box statistics and some overall performance improvements have been made.

We also had to widen some summary number fields for our customers in Turkey and Indonesia. These guys become millionaires on daily bases. Nevertheless, there weren’t many bugs to fix what showed us that DSM is now running absolutely stable and without any crashes on all systems XP,Mac OX10+ and even on Windows Vista.

For our Macintosh users, we have upgraded DSM to work on the new Mac Panther and Mac Leopard versions as well.

DiveShopManager 2.03 is now available for download. The free 30 days trial version gives you the chance to try DSM for a whole month before you make any decision. If you run into problems during the setup or if there is anything that needs further explanation please let us know. ProData Software support usually responds within a few hours at most. We DO care about our customers and we will always be willing to help you out. DSM comes with regularly free updates and a free lifetime support!

Here a little Reminder what DiveShopManager can do for you:

• Manage all your Customer Data
• Send E-Mails and Newsletters
• Mange Customer Invoices
• Manage multiple Hotels and Resorts
• Manage Room Bookings
• Manage Live aboard Cruises
• Manage Dive Rosters
• Manage Diving Courses
• Mange Fun Dives
• Make fully automated Staff Wages
• Manage all Rentals
• Mange Sales
• Create printable Statistics
• Manage Income and Expenses
• Save you lots and lots of Time and Money

Now it fits like a body-glove. It fits not only for big dive centers but also for medium and even fresh starting small dive centers. A new dive resort has just opened on Koh Tao - Blue Marlin Diving Koh Tao Thailand . With only a few staff and not as many customers as the ‘big shots’ one could say; what they need a software for? With a perspective of a future with growing staff and a for sure growing clientel they say that they don’t want to loose a single customer contact right from the beginning. Take care of the best part of your business, your existing customers, and you can not fail. Send them newsletters, remind them every then and when on where they had a great time. They will not only come back themselves but they will also talk about you and send you their friends and relatives. Think about it’, that’s the best and most cost effective advertising you can get.

Sending newsletters with DiveShopManager is an easy thing to do. But that’s not the only reason why Blue Marlin decided to use our dive shop software right from the beginning. Keeping track of every last baht is a good thing to too. From the spending, and there is quite some of it if you open a dive center as we all know, to the staff wages either in percentage or in agreed sums or even both for differen scuba diving courses. The article catalogue proved very useful right from the start. And all the room management in different resorts, some business partners, others not, is pretty easy to handle this way. It also opens additional way of income by selling live aboard diving on business partners boats since all the boat operators, their boats and schedules can be kept in the database of DiveShopManager 2.02.04. Kayak rentals, Equipment rentals, no problem at all.

We strongly suggest that you download a trial version and have a look for yourself. The trial version of diveShopManager is fully functional for 30 days and absolutely free.

To Download the Dive Shop Software go here and select if you need a Mac or a Windows Version and if you would like the Full Version which includes the help movies or the small version without the movies. If you don’t want to download the movies, you can always ad them later.

If you first want to know what other people think of DiveShopManager 2.02.04 please visit Scuba Herald the best Scuba Diving News Website.

The first software package for dive centers and dive resorts is finally ready for download. We first have added a test version. That does not have the purpose to tell us where the bugs are, I guess we cached them all by now. What we want to achieve with the test version is to provide perfect software, suitable for every dive center around the globe. Therefore we need to know if the software suits your personal situation. The great variety of locations and sizes of dive resorts are covered due to the great flexibility of DiveShopManager. All modules can be fitted and scaled to suit any dive center we have heard of. We have put ourselves right in the heart of the diving industry to work out the details for the software. Most of the parts where developed on Koh Tao - Thailand.

For those who have never heard about Koh Tao, the island is only 21sqkm in size but has 45 Dive Resorts. With many friends on the island who have been working as scuba diving instructors all around the world, we have gathered all available information and implemented them into DiveShopManager 2.0.

Our first version has been running in only one dive resort for 22 month now without any problem. We have made hundreds of changes since. We have developed new modules, like the hotel booking software, or the rental software for all rental affairs in a dive center.

The product catalogue keeps the retail shop under control and is easy to manage and ordering new goods is done in a blink of an eye. The dive roster adds dives to invoices and wages automatically and delivers a complete dive log for the customer at the end of he’s/her stay. There are many more features added like statistics, student record file, invoices and integrated e-mail client. Take advantage of the free download and see for yourself how easy the software adjusts to your own dive resort.

DiveShopManager 2.0 is in the final stages of development. After adding the live a board part with full schedule and booking for as many boats as you wish, we now come to the end of developing. I hope that all our friends around the scuba diving world will put a link on their website to promote the new software. Have a look at some features at: http://diveshopmanager.com/features.html. We will keep you informed here over any further development and sure about the lunch date.