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Stan, I am thinking someone new is inputting the brochure items and am finding so many errors. It is very frustrating. Also I wish the information could be condensed into the description line, including the shade                                      as when it spills over it does not print on the invoice and then it makes packing the order a nightmare as the shade etc is not noted. I need to have the brochure with me when packing and have to look everything up. With 70 plus orders, way too time consuming. Also the What's New is not inputted or Outlet, Expressions or Wellness. I end up having to input these all myself...Have these issues been addressed? I really don't want to start with another program as I do like MBA, but the last couple of campaigns have been way too time consuming   

sorry but i went back to timesaver as i have over 200 customers now and not entering every item
they even have the demo items in the program for me

sherri

the only down fall with timesaver is i have lots of helpers and i love the way mba does the helpers

sherri

I have the same issues as Jess mentioned above. Added to that the Category section is not filled in on the brochures so now I can't use the include earnings estimate under Create Purchase order. I used this alot. Last campaign I missed the 50% discount level by $100, because I wasn't able to figure out where I was at in sales without doing it all manually.

Stan please do what you can to fix these issues. I didn't have problems with the way the brocures used to be. I was able to figure out the discriptions, except for an odd time, then I would look at the book. The changes to me have not been an improvement, especially when all of these other things that have been mentioned in all of these posts are missing.

Thanks for your help
Bev

The changes to the Canadian Brochures is because the old way was getting later and later in campaign before they were available. Over the last three years the Canadian Brochures have changed several times simply because of the availability of data. I expect this will continue over time as a large part of it is out of my control.

I have a Rep who is going to start checking the Brochures so they are more accurate (they will never be perfect simply because even Avon creates an Corrections list).  The current data source does not have Earnings categories so they will have to be filled in on the Sales Order if you want/need them.

I am looking into the ability of Canadian Reps to use COMPanion as a data source.  The idea is to fill in an Order on Companion and then have a button that copies the data into an MBA Order.  This would allow for corrected prices (assuming Avon had updated them) and the old style 22 letter descriptions.  I would like to have it so Reps would not have to save the Order in Companion if they didn't want to (just use it as a data source). The current Brochures would still be available for download, this would just give Reps another choice.

Cheers,
Stan

I am so wanting to come back and use mba, for the purpose of my helpers, but is the canadian brochures all entered in to the program, or do you still have to enter products in manually..


sherri

how do you get the information to enter into mba stan...

What are Timesaver and COMPanion? 

MBA has been the far best one as you can set up helpers in there and it calculates everything its an amazing program

Sherri