Interview With: Alice Miller & Matthew Kalyani, Owners
How did you get into the sign business?
My brother Oscar purchased the business in the late 80′s from the original owner, who established the business as a wholesale Neon Shop in the late 1960s. At that time, Matthew was employed to as an Apprentice Glass Bender.
In the early 1990’s Matthew and Partner Alice purchased the business from Oscar when he decided to pursue another career. At that time there were just the two employees: Matthew, Alice and the shop dog. Matthew was the primary contact for the sales and he would bend the glass while Alice would bombard and handle the office duties.
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We’ve gotten a lot of requests for sorting the drop-down lists by category inside the plugins themselves, and that’s been implemented in EstiMate 2011.
The new Find Transactions screen in EstiMate 2011 makes it quick and easy to find any existing transactions without having to hunt and peck through your “Open List.”
Discount Line Items are a really cool new feature in EstiMate 2011.
We’ve been getting this as a steady feature request for years – the ability to create purchase orders the same way Estimates and Jobs can be created.
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We’ve added a new Job Timer screen that brings up the list of active jobs in EstiMate and presents the opportunity to track actual time worked on the job. This time can then be checked against the expected times on the work order and allows you to see how well times are being estimated in your shop.