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Case study
Gunther Gifts, Inc.
Personalized gift provider relies on
Everest Software to manage inventory
and support growth
Company Background Key Features UsedAs an online provider of personalized gifts for special occasions such as weddings, birthdays, graduations, and . Real-time Integration with anniversaries, Gunther Gifts has become the engraving Back End Accounting and specialist that customers have come to rely on to help commemorate their events and milestones. Business Operations
The Carlsbad, California-based company engraves Taking Orders Onlinepackages and ships unique gifts nationwide from a .15,000 square foot engraving facility housing theirstate-of-the-art engraving machines and personalization . Real-Time Order Statusstations. Gunther Gifts Runs on Everest Software. . Accounting General Ledger
. Accounts Receivable
We maxed out Quickbooks within our first . Accounts Payable
" year. We needed a system that would allow . Sales Quotes and Orders
us to grow quickly, without worrying about . Inventory Controlwhether our internal accounting and
inventory system could handle the growth. . Purchasing
Lisa Gunther, co-owner & CFO, Gunther Gift Direct TCP/IP Remote Login"s, Inc. .The Challenge The ResultsWith over 200,000 customers relying on Gunther Gifts to help Enabled seamless inventory management commemorate their special occasions, it was critical for the company between multiple Websites, ensuring to have an integrated solution that could manage its accounting and product availability and limited unplanned inventory effectively and efficiently. out-of-stock orders and therefore better In addition, with several Websites pulling information from the same customer satisfactioninventory pool, Gunther Gifts needed a system that would allow them to easily keep track of their inventory across multiple channels. Saved thousands of dollars through "We maxed out Quickbooks within our first year," said Lisa Gunther, customized training programs which co-owner & CFO, Gunther Gifts. "We needed a system that would allowed the entire staff to process and allow us to grow quickly, without worrying about whether our check orders ensuring that products ship to internal accounting and inventory system could handle the growth," she added. customers as quickly as possible
Supported the rapid growth of the business by enabling complete integration across inventory, accounting, purchasing and salesThe SolutionIn looking at various accounting and inventory solutions, the one Processed orders quickly and efficiently that stood out was Everest Software's cost-effective, all-in-one utilizing an on-premise solution and Everest Advanced. The fully integrated solution includes accounting, avoiding downtime of online billing inventory control, sales, order entry, purchasing, e-commerce, systemsshipping and receiving, and more, allowing Gunther Gifts to manage and track business operations online and offline, from storefront to the back office, without missing a beat.
From implementation to daily activities, the company transitioned seamlessly to the Everest system. "It is always difficult to start anything new," said Gunther. "Once we began implementation of the software, it moved along quickly and we received excellent training so we were up and running within a week." With Everest's help, it was an easy next step to train the entire staff to use the system - a process that saved Gunther Gifts thousands of dollars. About Everest Software, Inc.Everest Software's fully integrated business In addition, since Everest offers both on-demand and on-premise management software solution, Everest solutions, the company was able to pick the system that best suited Advanced, addresses the unique needs of their needs. "We have a high volume of activity, and in the past if growing small and medium businesses in the wholesale/distribution, retail and e-tail you had to log on to an online billing system, we were at the mercy industries by allowing them to quickly of the provider's uptime or the DSL uptime in our area which was not manage and track their business operations reliable," stated Gunther. "By having the flexibility of an on-premise online and offline. Everest Software is the solution, we're able to process all our orders offline quickly and proud winner of numerous awards including efficiently." the SIIA Codie Aw... [download for more]
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