2003 Update
HITS PLUS & HITS 2000
December 2003


Dear Valued HITS User:

The enclosed diskette contains the 2003 update to HITS PLUS and HITS 2000.

Loading and installing the update takes only a few minutes.  However, we
recommend that you take a good backup before loading and installing the 2003
update.

To install the update, make sure no other users are in HITS.  Copy the
contents of this diskette to your computer using the HITS Utility Menu option
for loading an update diskette.  Then, from the Main Menu, take option #6 þ
Run A Program, enter þDEC2003þ, press the <enter> key, and follow the
instructions on the screen.

Once the update has been installed, a copy of the update documentation printed
below will also be available on the Utilities Menu.

Note To Hosted HITS Users:  You will only have this documentation with no
diskette.  Your update has already been loaded and installed.

The following is a summary of new and enhanced programs for 2003.

   þ Tire Guide On-Line þ Includes the 2003 version.
   þ Sales Counter þ Invoicing þ Now copy tire inflation and other important
     consumer data directly to a workorder or invoice from Tire Guide On-
     Line.
   þ Report Viewer þ Now view several reports on the screen before printing.
   þ Customer Quick History þ Quickly view or print a detailed list of
     history for a vehicle from the ticket scan screen.  Great for quickly
     reviewing a vehicleþs service history or as a printable report for your
     customers.
   þ Postcard Marketing þ Print postcards using a wide variety of customer
     master selection criteria.
   þ Targeted Price Change Routine þ This program has been significantly
     enhanced to provide more flexibility for maintaining selling prices.
   þ Inventory Value By Department þ Now quickly and easily analyze your
     inventory value with this extension report by department with on-screen
     totals.
   þ Inventory Count Sheets By Raw Size þ New Raw Size output order speeds
     inventory counting for those operations with tires stored by size.
   þ Plus other enhancements and correctionsþ

Details

Tire Guide On-Line þ Includes the 2003 version of Tire Guide On-Line.

Sales Counter þ Invoicing þ If you access Tire Guide On-Line from within the
vehicle area of an invoice and press the <ENTER> key on a tire size in Tire
Guide On-Line, you will now be asked if you want to add tire inflation, bolt
hole, circle pattern, and torque information to the body of the ticket.  Given
the issues with tire inflation over the past few years, this option is
provided for those dealers that wish to provide tire inflation and other
important consumer information (i.e.: torque) to their customers.

Report Viewer þ (new) þ A new report viewer now provides the capability to
view selected reports on the screen before printing them.  Many dealers have
found it frustrating to print an entire report only to find that their
selection criteria resulted in a report that either provided them with too
little, too much data, or other than the data they wanted.  This capability
will enable you to preview the results of a report before you print it.  The
current list of viewable reports includes: Customer Master, Inventory Count
Sheets, Inventory Extension, Inventory Price List, and Inventory Sales
Transactions.

Note To Hosted Customers:  Any additional reports modified for using the
report viewer will be uploaded to you automatically.

Customer Quick History  þ There is a new option (F6-Quick History) on the
ticket scan screen that provides for a quick view or print of customer vehicle
history.  This is a powerful new capability that will enable you to either
view (or print) a quick (streaming) list of all activity for a particular
vehicle or print a nicely formatted detail report (by date and ticket #) of
all history, suitable for giving to your customer.  Access to the report is
easy.  Simply position the cursor on the desired ticket on the ticket scan
screen, press F6 and choose your option.  This is now the easiest way to get a
quick look at the sales and service history for a vehicle.

Postcard Marketing þ A new postcard printing routine provides the capability
to print dot matrix postcards based on customer data.  This program provides
the capability for you to communicate to your valued customers via postcards
using a variety of selection criteria including, zip code, sales type, A/R
type, mail switch list, salesman list, year-to-date sales, previous year
sales, and last sold.  The program supports both 3.5þ and 4þ high post cards. 
The program uses the new Report Viewer, which by using various selection
criteria, can help you analyze your business without having to print anything. 
Some uses of this program include: sending pre-printed postcards that say
þThank-You For Your Business This Yearþ, þSeasonþs Greetingsþ, þWe Miss You þ
How Can We Get You Back?þ, etc.  Using selection criteria, you can send cards
just to your retail customers with annual sales greater than a specified
amount, send cards to your commercial customers advising of a new commercial
service you have added, or send a special discount on a selected service to
selected zip codes to determine effectiveness of your marketing efforts. 
(HITS 2000 Users: Access this program from Main Menu option #7 þ Marketing. 
HITS PLUS Users: Access this program from Menu þTþ, option þMþ.)
 
Target Price Change Routine þ This a completely revamped version of the price
change routine.  This version now intelligently determines if each price level
is to be updated using gross profit, mark-up, or dollar add method.  You can
now mix methods for an individual item; i.e.: An itemþs Price 1 can be
maintained by gross profit percent, Price 2 by mark-up, Price 3 by dollar add,
and so forth.  You can update pricing or just the targets and you can now
display or print either the changed prices or targets on the screen for
validation before actually performing the update.

Inventory Value By Department þ This report provides on-screen inventory value
reporting by department.  This report is accessed through the menu option for
Inventory Value/Extension.

Inventory Count Sheets By Raw Size þ This is a new count sheet report that
prints by Raw Size and uses the new report viewer.

Invoice Line Item Detail Report  þ This report now prompts for optionally
printing of phone # instead of tax exempt # for customers.  This enhancement
makes it possible to use this report for courtesy follow up calls based on a
review of recent sales history.

Inventory Sales Analysis & Profitability þ (Last Day) - This is a daily
version of the monthly report.  It provides sales and profitability analysis
of all items sold for the day as of the last day closed.   (HITS 2000 Users:
Access this report from the Utilities Menu, option #8 þ Run A Program þ
ANALINVD.   HITS PLUS Users: Access this report from Menu þTþ, option þRþ.)

Labels þ This is the dot matrix customer labels program.  It now provides for
printer redirection.

Inventory Quote Scan þ (correction) þ The program now properly backs out FET
on price calculations when performing customer profiled price quoting for
those customers who are flagged as being FET exempt.

Daily Closing þ (enhancement) þ Prior to this update, the last sold date for
an item was being updated whenever the item was put on a ticket.  If the
ticket was an open workorder, the last sold date was technically incorrect. 
This has been changed and the last sold date is now updated when the daily
closing routine is run for the day.


HITS TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER
Andreoli & Associates, Inc.
www.aasys.com
1-800-422-2032

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