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Windows software streamlines internet auctions.


Switching to a Windows-based accounting system has helped reduce the time it takes to conduct an Internet Internet

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 and conventional auction, while improving reporting capabilities. Without any customization the accounting system is able to accept import auction results for 800 properties from an Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials.  file and generate invoices in 30 minutes. A key to the success of this application is making each auction a new customer.

The new program has also substantially improved reporting by giving users the ability to see a profit and loss statement for each individual auction. The user requires little training to become productive on the program, which is similar in look and feel to the office productivity applications that they are already familiar with.

Homebid.com is the world's first on-line real estate auction company. Its mission is to offer sellers, buyers and industry professionals the resources they need to market and trade real estate assets over the Internet with confidence, security and ease. The firm's previous system was a DOS-based accounting program that required more time than the firm wanted to spend on financial record-keeping.

The first problem was that the program wasn't flexible enough to account for individual auctions, making it necessary to maintain all records on individual auctions in Excel spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software
Online spreadsheets

Main article: List of online spreadsheets
  • EditGrid [1]
  • Simple Spreadsheet [2]
  • wikiCalc
. Complicated steps were required to import information. Reports on the individual auctions could only be generated from the spreadsheet spreadsheet

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 a value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. , Thomas Boruassa of Mesa, AZ, to help find a better solution. Boruassa, who works with several different software packages, recommended Visual AccountMate from AccountMate Software Corporation, because he felt that its flexibility would simplify the task of customizing it to handle the company's unique accounting requirements. Boruassa pointed out that the accounting system has an exceptionally intuitive Windows interface. It provides a fully integrated system that allows a user to switch from one module to another simply by clicking on a tab, with no customization needed.
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Author:Wright, David
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 1999
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