[pianotech] Database for Piano Business

[David Ilvedson]

I conferred with my friend Norm, who is a programmer and is now getting back into piano work.   He suggested you print out all the info and hire someone to enter it into whatever new program you want to use.   Seems like a good idea to me.   When I moved from Piano Service Manager (Dean Reyburn's program), I just ended up entering all new customers into Time & Chaos and slowly entering the important customers from PSM into T & C.  
A mailing to all your customers about piano service in the next year or so might very well thin out your customer base.   You could enter the responding customers and use PTBiz as a backup database for the old customers.   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>, pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 3/3/2009 10:01:30 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business



>> Ron,
>> 
>> I'm "pretty sure" T&C can import comma delimited files, but
>> I've got a question in the T&C support.  I'll let you know.
>> You can go to www.chaossoftware.com  and download a
>> complete running program to try.   Try importing your files
>> and see what happens.
>> 
>> David Ilvedson, RPT


>Most database software can import comma delimited files. The 
>big problem has been getting PTBiz files into a portable 
>format. If you have a way to do that, you'll solve the problem 
>of the PTBiz users looking to port their databases to 
>something current.
>Ron N