The company's initial goal was to provide decent, inexpensive, and easy to use point of sale computer software for antiques dealers. We also committed to providing upgrades and technical assistance at a reasonable cost.

Our initial product, the Small Business Inventory System (SBIS), was released in late 1992. It was designed for the single antique dealer with a small shop.

During our marketing efforts for SBIS, we met the owner of an antique mall in Knightstown, IN. He encouraged us to develop a point of sale program for antique malls (where the owner of the building rents space to single antiques dealers and tracks all sales). We got to work, and in early 1993 released Data Management System (DMS).

DMS is a powerful, modular, easy to learn, and easy to use, point of sale program designed specifically for antique and craft malls. It contains features that other antique mall point of sale programs lack because we listen to our customers and implement the features they request. We even implement custom modifications!!

Over the years, CHARLES CRUME SOFTWARE has developed other software products and expanded its' line of services.

• Consulting:
  • Experience with...
    • A wide range of computer hardware (IBM and CDC mainframes, HP mini-computers, Harris and Sun Microsystems Unix boxes, and various brands of micro-computers).
    • Numerous programming languages such as: FORTRAN, WATFIV, PL1, COBOL, BAL (IBM assembler), Zilog Z-80 assembler (we dis-assembled, and documented, the binary code of the Zilog dis-assembly program), Visual dBASE, LISP, Snobol, PHP, Perl, and MySQL.
    • A variety of special purpose applications: IMSL (we converted the FORTRAN IV source code of the IMSL that was written for IBM mainframes (8 bit byte, 32 bit word, and the 256 character EBCDIC character set) to work on a CDC 730 (6 bit byte, 36 bit word and a 64 character character set), SAS, SPSS, BMDP, SIR, Famulus, AHPL, and LogoWriter.
  • We are the "extra pair of eyes" and the "out-of-the-box" viewpoint that are often needed.
  • We can provide advice and guidance on a variety of hardware and software issues and will always provide candid answers to your questions.
    
    
• Programming:
  • We develop, and support, vertical market software applications for business such as:
    • Data Management System a point of sale program for antique and craft malls.
    • Client Management System a client, project, and time management program for attorneys and small to medium sized law firms.
  • Custom applications written for your specific needs.
  
  
• Custom Reporting and Data Analysis:
  • If you have existing software and need reports that the developers can't, or won't, provide, send us an to discuss the matter.
  
  
• Web Sites:
  • We work with you to determine your needs and design the site.
  • Register domain name and setup the account.
  • Implement special features.
  • Setup your account(s) with eBay and PayPal.
  • Setup Google Alerts.
  • Setup Google Adword campaigns.
  • Provide on-going support that is prompt and reliable.
  
  
• Technical Writing:
  • On-line HTML help files.
  • PDF documents.
  • Windows help files.
  • Published Articles.
  
  
• Training.
  • Personal 1 on 1 attention.
  • Learn Windows (move/copy files, the mouse, shortcuts, finding files, starting applications, etc.).
  • Learn how to use the internet and e-mail.
  • Learn basic word processing, mail merge, etc.
  
  
• On-Line Research -- if it's out there, we can probably find it!
  
  
• Data Recovery and Backups.

Our flagship product, Data Management System, is the ultimate point of sale (POS) computer program for antique and craft malls. Although designed specifically for antique and craft malls, it can be used by almost any business needing to track sales, customers, and inventory.

Data Management System has been in use across the USA since early 1993. It contains the features requested by our customers because Data Management System was designed by antique mall owners and managers for their antique mall(s).

Features such as:

• Layaways (accept up to 12 payments).
• Split sales (accept up to 3 methods of payment).
• Inventory Control (only if you want, or perhaps for just your booths).
• Price tickets (standard size of 1" by 1", and custom sizes designed to your needs).
• Tracking of your business expenses.
• Tracking of your business assets.
• Sell taxable and non taxable sales on the same invoice.
• Sell items from multiple dealers on the same invoice.
• Special reports to Analyze sales by zip code.
• Process special dealer charges.
• Booth rent.
• Pass the fees the credit card companies charge you back onto the dealers.
• Connect specialized hardware to make operation of your mall smoother:
  • Barcode scanners to "point-and-click" your sales into Data Management System like the big boys do (requires Inventory Control module).
  • Cash drawers (drawer only opens when a new sale is made).
  • Magnetic stripe readers (don't key in the customers cc# and expiration date -- let DMS do it for you!).
  • Receipt printers (print "cash register" receipts).

Data Management System is a robust and powerful business application. It is the ultimate point of sale software program for antique and craft malls.

Data Management System is easy to learn and use!!

It WILL STREAMLINE the operation of your antique and/or craft mall by:

1. Reducing human error.
2. Eliminating the drudgery of paperwork.
3. Having the computer perform all those time consuming calculations (sales tax, credit card charges, booth rent, special fees, etc.).
4. Having the computer generate all the reports (sales invoices, booth reports, daily sales reports, sales tax reports, etc.).