Features and Capabilities

Astrix Consignment Software features and capabilities provide the following business functions.

Parties

The setting up of:

  • Consignors
  • Customers
  • Staff Members
  • Suppliers
  • Vendors

Items

Working with consigned items

  • consigning items
  • listing and working with items consigned in a specified period
  • checking previous pricing of similar previously consigned items
  • donating items to a charity
  • purchasing a single item from a person
  • returning items to a consignor
  • printing / reprinting of item tags/labels

Products

Working with purchased / supplied products:

  • setting up a product catalogue for a product vendor
  • purchasing products from a vendor
  • returning products to vendor
  • seting up a product catalogue for a product supplier
  • recording products obtained from a supplier
  • returning products to supplier
  • printing / reprinting of product tags/labels

Transactions

Recording business transactions:

  • applying account charges and credits
  • entering business expenses
  • recording the sale of gift certificates
  • issuing a store credit note
  • issuing  a store coupon
  • issuing a promotional item
  • recording a layaway
  • making a payment to a consignor, supplier, or vendor
  • making an adjustment to points accumulated by a customer
  • making a refund for returned item
  • posting of sales
  • operating Astrix as a Point of Sale system

Reports

Generating reports:

Report Cash Out
Report Consignor
  • Account Card
  • Account Charges, Credits, etc.
  • Drop Offs
  • Payments
  • Sales
Report Consignors, Customers, Suppliers and Vendors
  • printing of consignor/customer / supplier / vendor lists
  • printing of mailing labels
  • exporting of email addresses to be used in Outlook
Report Sales
  • By Item Code Type
  • By Staff Member
  • Consigned Items
  • Payment Methods (Cash, Master Card, Visa, etc.)
  • Retail Products
  • Transactions
Report Store
  • Accounting Report
  • Consigned Items
    • By Consignor
    • By Item Code Type
    • By Staff Member
  • Consignor
    • Account Charges, Credits etc.
    • Expired Stock
    • Liability
    • On Account Purchases
    • Payments Full
    • Payments Partial
  • Drop Offs
  • Expenses
  • Product Inventory
  • Refunds
  • Stock Turnover
Report Supplier
  • Inventory
  • Product List
  • Products Stocked
Report Vendor
  • Inventory
  • Product List
  • Products Stocked

Setup

Setting up / changing settings within Astrix:

  • Appointments
  • Business Data
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Item Codes
  • Item Code Types
  • Licence parameters
  • Network Settings
  • Price Discounts
  • Printers
  • Processing Fees
  • Store Schedule
  • System Defaults
  • Tag Colour Discounts

Processes

Running a number of Astrix processes including:

  • Creating backups of Astrix data
  • Setting up of Consignor cheque runs
    • Adding a cheque run
    • Adding a consignor to a cheque run
    • Making payments / Processing - Printing Cheques
  • Setting up of Supplier cheque runs
    • Adding a cheque run
    • Adding a supplier to a cheque run
    • Making payments / Processing - Printing Cheques
  • Claim Monies from Aged Sales