Since Clients & Profits X was designed especially for the advertising industry, you'll probably feel familiar with it after only a few days. It's made to move you smoothly through the steps that every job goes through: estimating, trafficking, costing, and billing -- the same steps you go through now. But instead of using a manual system of job jackets and forms, everything will be in Clients & Profits X.

Users, Access & Passwords Clients & Profits X features a sophisticated user-based password system to keep your database secure. The system tracks who's using the database based on user initials. Access privileges to different parts of the system can be made available -- or disabled -- for individual users.

Staff The Staff file contains the company's employees. Staff records are used by time cards and time sheets. Anyone whose time is tracked is added as a staff member. The staff window contains information about each staff member, including name, address, department, billing rates, and a personal photograph.

Vendors Vendors are suppliers from whom you purchase goods and services through Accounts Payable.The vendor file contains every vendor you'll ever do business with, including account number, name, address, and some account information.

Chart of Accounts

Web Access Clients & Profits X’s web-based time card allows any staff member to track their hours worked from any internet-connected web browser. It offers real-time access to the shop’s database of clients, jobs, and tasks. The time they entered on their web-based time card appears on job reports instantly, just like the standard C&P X time card.

Status Table Status codes group, sort, and manage jobs on windows, job lists, traffic reports, cost summaries, and billing worksheets. The status code is the single most important tool you have for managing jobs. Status codes are the basis for the daily and weekly job lists and traffic reports.

Task Table Tasks are the basis for estimating, scheduling, job costing, billing, and job profitability reports. Since they serve so many functions, they're very important. Your tasks are completely customizable. The tasks you add to your Task Table reflect the diversity of the work you do.

Groups Groups are used to sub-total tasks on estimates, invoices, and job summaries. They help arrange job tasks more clearly and logically for your clients. Groups can be based on the kind of work you're doing or how you're doing the work.

Job Types/Spec Sheets Spec sheets contain standard information about a particular type of job. They are used to automate adding jobs that are similar, since they produce the same kind of work. You can create dozens of different spec sheets for every type of job you do.

Order Templates Purchase order templates help automate adding routine purchase and insertion orders. Templates contain important, but generic, information about a kind of purchase. Purchase order templates help automate adding routine purchase and insertion orders. Templates contain important, but generic, information about a kind of purchase.

Departments In larger companies staff members are usually organized into departments, such as account service, production/traffic, media, accounting, and administration. Clients & Profits X allows users to be grouped together into departments in the same way.

Agency Information Essential information about your organization is stored in Agency Information. Agency Information is the first record created when your database is started, and contains your company name and address. Every user gets a copy of the original Agency Information record, which is customized by Clients & Profits for their own use.