#5518 Flowers By LD Computers

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Hey Sir- Hope you had a good weekend and fantastic birthday. Here is the list of what I'm thinking. Front of the shop: -touch screen computer -cash drawer (we have already) -receipt printer (we have already) -cc reader (we have already) Upstairs -new computer for office stuff, quicbooks, reporting, etc. not touch screen -printer (optional) right now it prints downstairs, which is fine, but would be nice ot not have to run back and forth North Station -new computer, not touch screen South Station -new computer, not touch screen Delivery Area -new computer, LARGE screen Designer Station -computer The Front us an old FTD machine that I want to throw out a window. A nice all in one touch screen would be nice here with cardless keyboard and mouse. The cash drawer, receipt printer and cc reader are all good. The case drawer doesn't open on it's own, but we just open it, not a big deal North and South are the stations we currently have, the machines are old FTD machines that we can get by on, but are SO slow. I've added more memory, but they have seen their days. These two get used the most. They are on opposite sides of a column, I am thinking it would be nice to mount them on the column with adjustable arm things and just have a cordless mouse and keyboard. Our printer is also sitting in the middle of this. It works well but is getting a bit finicky with printing clearly. We might have to update that sooner than later as well. Any recommendations on that would be wonderful I'd like the delivery area to have it's own computer, so that they can confirm, look up addresses, etc and not have to wait for a computer. It'd be nice to have a screen mounted on the wall so they can pull up maps, have it out of the way, etc. I don't quite know the keyboard yet, as the area gets packed with outgoing deliveries so we can't really just have the computer sitting on the table. This machine would be nice to have a pretty large screen on. The delivery people like to be able to have a nice overview on the maps and the delivery software displays them on a map of the city.. so would just be nice to have a nice big viewing area for them. The Designer Station, I am thinking of using one of the old computers, it isn't really for putting in orders, but for changing the status of them as they take them so we kinda know what is going on at any time. This is something we don't do now, but looking to do as we go down the road, so I don't know the placement of this either. Like the delivery area, the available spaces tend to get overrun with greens and stuff, so thinking of mounting it again on the wall that they could pull out and use. A touch screen might work here, I don't know how the POS works with a touch screen as far as updating status, etc. SO, might have to test that out before this is put in place. Upstairs. This would just be the general office machine we do book keeping and stuff on. All of our monitors are at least 10 years old or older... so, I'd like new monitors for everything, and as with everything in my life, I always prefer something a little bigger. The last thing I'd like is a bigger tv I mount on the wall to display the daily status stuff, number of orders, orders completed etc. I'm talking with the POS people and I think they will get a web driven page to display that that I can just pull and display on that tv. So I don't think I'll need a computer for that. As far as hardware that's the list. All but the upstairs office, will just be running the POS which is an adobe air program and google chrome. The office machine is about the same, it'll have the pos, chrome and the only really other thing we would do is scan stuff etc. Nothing crazy going on on any of them. My last question to you would be regarding phone/text stuff. We have a VOIP set up now. It works great, but I would like to get it so you could text the shop number or call it. I'm 99% sure I'd have to transfer the number to a service and have that handle either getting a call or sending a voice call to the current VOIP system. I'd like those texts to be handled by the shop computer so any one at a station could see them pop up and respond. It needs to be pretty rock solid cause I don't want to be loosing calls, text. Not sure if that's something you've worked with etc, but thought I would check . Thank you for all your help. josh

Not ignoring you, just trying to get work to get caught up ... Looking after this meeting.

So I'm looking through this and 6 computers 5 monitors 1 touch screen 1 possibly big ass monitor mounted for delivery. 1 possible ?low-volume? printer upstairs to avoid the dreaded walk. Is your Quickbooks online or Desktop? VOIP that supports texting ... mightycall.com seems to be pretty great. BUT the texting is a bit off kilter at the moment. Sending a text takes 2+ minutes to be received ... And the UI is iffy, but boy the value :P ... If they get it fixed, it's a really well priced/positioned service. Basically $40/mo if you need 5 or fewer lines/trunks. Peet

Hey sir... This looks right, we'd need a high-volume printer for downstairs and lower volume upstairs. If those computers are the all in ones that's fine. We'd like to have all but the touch some of those mounted on a wall like a TV, so I don't know if that makes a diff. Quickbooks is online. I'll look at that mightycall! THank you

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