Visual Planner Features

Interface

• ‘Drag-and-drop’ interface allows you quickly add, remove or re-position products.
• Multiple plan views – true aspect ratio, image options or product list
• Colour coding of Publishers, Groups, Types, Sizes etc.
• Zoom in and out of products on plan.
• Plan and designs are accurately scaled.

Planning features

• Copy plans – copy any customer, template or master plan.
• Template plans – store standard plans to copy to a customer.
• Master plans – link a standard plan to many customers.
• Define each plan's width, height and number of rows.
• Global design change. 
• Design Exclusions at Group or Customer level.
• Re-size plan.
• Highlight product exceptions e.g. out of stock, discontinued.
• User defined plan and product fields.

Product selection and placement

• Pre-filter products using spreadsheet style filters e.g. Christmas items only.
• Product explorer tree with up to 6 product attributes defined to your needs e.g. Publisher Group, Caption, Type, Size, Style etc. 
• Any filter can be turned on or off as required.
• Drag designs on and off plan.
• Drag designs to a drop box ready to place on plan.
• Paste products from a spreadsheet to the drop box for placement on plans.
• Rotate products e.g. show landscape designs as portrait in plan.
• Store your customer plan references.
• Define a gap between display items to allow for packaging.
• Sort designs by rank to allow bestseller selection.
• Duplicate product check on all plans for a customer.

Tickets and Orders

• Enter re-order tickets.
• Import re-order tickets e.g. from MiniSell.
• Enter customer and product to generate ticket re-order.
• Generate orders from new or re-planned plans.
• Generate orders from re-order tickets.

Printing  

• Print plans – single page or multi-page, with or without images, mono or colour.  
• Print to PDF for emailing to other customers or publishers.
• Print barcoded re-order tickets.

Integration

• Automatic data synchronisation with your host system. 
• Updates customer and product information, including stock levels, from your system.
• Exports orders for import to your system.
• Integration options – SQL-server database or csv/tab files.
• Import existing grids from host system.
• Third party publisher product imports.
• Plan exports to third party publishers.