What's New in ShoWorks 2012!

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ShoWorks Nous 2012 Top 20 Features:

• Judge or check-in your entries on an iPad tablet.
• Publish results directly to Facebook, Twitter, or your own website within 3 clicks.
• Set class limits for exhibitors.
• Many new preset reports including payment discrepancy, back tags, buyer cards, coop cards, etc.
• New wizard to update divisions and classes all at once with our most powerful wizard to-date.
• Update any field in all or selected departments, divisions or classes at once.
  (examples: Entry deadline, entry fees, premiums, sale info, online configurations, etc.
• Find and “bump” any date values by one year.
• Sort and renumber all or selected departments, divisions or classes at once.
• Copy classes from one division into many other divisions at once.
• New wizard to adjust checks for flat amounts, %’s, and deductions for owed entry fees.
• New wizard to adjust bills for flat amounts, and %’s.
• New wizard to adjust sale for flat amounts, % of sales, % of add-ons, % of unit price, and per pound.
• Display Tag ID and easy-to-read ownership in bills, invoices, and sale reports.
• Find records in menus using drop-down from the field of your choice.
• Print content sensitive reports (both preset and custom) directly within menus.
• Create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in one click from both the report wizard and quick entries.
• Improved online entry data uploading during high traffic times.
• Sell general admission tickets online and configure directly in ShoWorks.
• Personalize your ShoWorks with 12 beautiful themes.
• Allow clubs and schools to login and approve entries.
• Online Media - Upload photos, videos, music and PDFs for entries.
• Online Media - Judge, score, and comment on entries online, anywhere, anytime.
• Online Media - E-blast entry tags and online judging results.
• Online Media - Display top placed photo entries via slideshow on your own website or monitors.

A quick glance:

Prior features introduced in ShoWorks 2009:

Interface Features:

• Scalable interface to take advantage of larger, more popular monitors (yet still work on most smaller ones).  Minimum display size is now 1024x768 (as opposed to the former 800x600).  Basically, the larger screen size you have, the more ShoWorks will adapt.
• Customizable interface.  That's right!
  • We mean the ability to rename fields on your menus (don't like the term "Class", no problem, rename it to "Lot" with ease). 
  • We mean the ability to fully customize your own menus (add, remove, re-arrange the form with the fields you want - no more padlocks).
  • We mean dragging, resizing, and arranging columns in spreadsheet view and ShoWorks remembering your arrangement.
• Hybrid menus - that show the traditional menu with fields (one record per screen) plus a spreadsheet type view on the bottom of the menu that has all records as a list for fast/easy management.  Very nice - one of our favorite features!
• Active menus (move among menus and keep your place).  For example, you may be working on a particular record in the Divisions menu, then need to flip to the Exhibitors menu.  When you go back to the Divisions menu, your cursor on the same record is right where you left it to pick up where you left off.
• Intelligent searching.  Now, a generic search box where as you type, ShoWorks narrows down the records on "every" field.  For example, start typing "Cal" and ShoWorks narrows records down to those including Calvin as a first name, Calhoun as a last name, Calgary as a city, Callamazoo High School as a school...  Just keep typing and the more you type, the narrower the results get.  Type in 307 and records are narrowed down with 307 as an Entry Number, 307 as an Exhibitor Number, 307 as an area code...and you get the idea.

Data Features:

• Lots of User Defined fields (71 new fields to be exact).
• New "import and merge latest changes" wizard, updating, merging and importing records from another ShoWorks data file without needing a network.
• Automated offsite backups to protect your data from any disaster.

Functional Features:

• Report grouping (organize your custom reports by dragging and dropping into groups).
• Three times as many preset reports as prior versions, including refinements in existing preset reports. Click here for a 33-page sample of preset reports (PDF).
• True Sliding Scale Premium Scheduling.  This will save lots of time on premium management.  The former method of points and premiums is still available and can be used cooperatively with the new method.
• E-blast manager.
• Flexible sale commissions to exclude add-ons.
• Split sale purchases easier by using a built-in assistant
• Paperless buyer billing and payments (e-blast their bills and they click a link to pay online with a check or credit card).

Online Features:

• Create multiple entries (multi-class) for those exhibitors with many entries all in one click.
• Flexible fees to charge by exhibitor or by entry.
• Online buyer payments if you also have an auction.
• Gather valuable feedback from your exhibitors with a customizable survey at checkout.
• Customize the entire site exactly to your fair’s needs with “skins” that match your fair theme.

And almost 1,000 other enhancements and tweaks based on years of feedback from hundreds of fairs across North America.