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FASTbook - Features

FASTbook includes the following features and more.

General Features
  • Event Views
    • Monthly Calendar View
    • Weekly Calendar View
    • Daily Detail View.
  • Display filters.
  • Holidays and Blackout days
  • Drilldown for further information or enter notes from the calendar
  • Timelines Views
    • Room Timeline
    • Monthly Timeline
    • Event Timeline
    • Room Event Monthly Timeline
    • Resource Timelines showing
      • Equipment
      • Meals / Catering
      • Labor

Event Information

  • Keep track of virtually any information pertaining to an event
  • 6+ Statuses let you prioritize your events. There are 3 statuses that FASTbook provides: cancel, estimate, and request. Users can then define up to six additional statuses, with more on the way.
  • Enter detailed notes with Rich Text formatting, and templates.
  • Differentiate events by definable types and sub types.
  • Word Processor integration for mail merge and contracts.
  • Record Ticketing information
    • Multi-tiered ticketing
    • Optional automatic announcement date
    • Ticket Totals, etc.
  • Internet Information for your events including:
    • URL hyperlink, specific image, and web page description
  • Rooms and Locations for your event.
    • Instant Room Properties
    • Notify Room Coordinators
  • Equipment and Packages
  • Meals and Meal Substitutions
  • Labor and Employee Scheduling
  • Chronological Event Outlines
  • Ticklers / Reminders of what to do and when to do it
  • Presenter or Moderator Information. Keep track of who will be hosting the event and items they need
  • Event document management lets you attach files or documents to the event

Event Management Functions

  • Intuitive Event Search lets you find just what you are looking for
  • Copy Events, saves time when entering a similar event
  • Copying subevents saves time when multiple rooms contain similar information
  • Bulk changes to all subevents within the event
  • Mass subevent delete if you need to do extensive changes.

Event Booking

  • FASTbook's Fastbooking allows complex or simple entry
  • Simple allows an event to be booked with minimal information fast
  • Advanced booking searches for availability based on your criteria
  • Patterned or reoccurring events can be booked with ease and then the pattern can be saved for use again later.
  • Event Detail allows for intricate event information when booking.
  • Complex double booking algorithms safeguard your schedule.
  • Optional Shared Resources allow shared use of a room.
  • Setup styles can help to assure occupancy requirements for different layouts
  • Estimates and Requests can be entered without affecting your actual schedule, and the if approved do not need to be reentered.

Communication

  • Internal - Messaging within FASTbook allows easy communication to other users
  • External - FASTbook integrates with email to allow sending emails or reports.

Contact Management

  • Always conveniently available on every screen.
  • Shows contact and client with which you are currently working
  • Add notes about your correspondence
    Client search
  • To do items, callbacks, meetings
  • See a list of all their events

Reports

  • 2000 Standard Combinations
  • Custom Reporting
  • Available Report writer.

Financial

  • Track payments / deposits made for event
  • Powerful invoicing
    • Default charges or taxes
    • Draft / Final modes
    • Email Invoices, print or save to PDF
    • Multiple Invoices for an event.
    • Quick invoicing buttons
    • Bulk Invoice creation
    • Unlimited charges and taxes
  • Setup predefined resource rates

Notifications

  • Optional automatically expiring tentative statuses
  • Payment reminders
  • Ticklers

Security

  • Client Group Security
  • Location Security
  • Feature lockout
  • Specify what areas you want the user to be able to use
  • Holiday security

Custom Fields

  • Custom Notes
  • Custom Fields
  • Custom Labels

Export / Import / Interface

  • PalmOS synchronization
  • ACT Client Import
  • ODBC Accessibility
  • Extensible for other applications

Help and Support

  • On screen help
  • Community site for suggestions and discussion
Technical
  • ANSI / ACID compliant RDBMS with proven track record
  • 32 bit Performance
  • Server runs on a variety of Operating Systems, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.
  • Thin client friendly (Citrix, Terminal Services, etc.)
Development
  • New features based on community suggestion are added frequently.
  • Continual Development to keep pace with changing industry
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