Just one of many attractive skins AS Club can wear
(XP, Vista, 7 / 32 and 64 bit versions)
As a service to the community, Austrosoft invites smaller clubs
with up to 100 members to use the full edition
of AS Club free of charge (no advertising, no strings attached)
If yours is a larger club, the first-year fee for support and
maintenance depends on the size
of your membership. After one year AS Club may be used free of charge in
perpetuity, the renewal of the support & maintenance
contract is optional. Please follow these links to view current AS Club pricing:
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Australia
· Canada
· Eurozone
· India
· New Zealand
· Pakistan
· South Africa
· United Kingdom
· United States
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Club managers and administrators who are looking beyond general purpose
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The next stage of web
integration, introduced in March 2012, permits AS Club to act as web server.
AS Club can run your club website
while at the same time responding to member requests coming in from the
Internet. For instance, members may view their latest statement of account or
they may comment on their statement
by sending an instant message to which the AS Club operator is alerted through a pop-up
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Whether your membership numbers in the dozens or in the thousands,
AS Club will handle the financial matters. There is no risk and little
effort involved in downloading AS Club from
the Austrosoft web site and trying it out for up to 2 months.
After launching AS Club you have access to
(1) a 'Guided Tour', i.e. an introduction to AS Club
fundamentals,
(2) an illustrated step-by-step tutorial
demonstrating program operation,
(3) a context-sensitive help system featuring the comprehensive program reference guide.
You may try AS Club for up to two months without obligation. Should you
encounter a problem feel free to email us for assistance.
The generous AS Club license makes extending the included one-year maintenance
cover
optional. You decide whether to extend the support and maintenance contract after the first year as an
'insurance policy' or continue without assistance in which case you can
go on using the program free of charge and without further restrictions under a license that will
only expire on Dec..31,.2099.
;-)
The
savings in printing and mailing expenses, achieved through the
electronic distribution of statements and tax invoices alone, will easily
offset the cost of the optional AS Club maintenance contract. As an example, the
Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat Club (MBYBC) has found the electronic distribution of club
documents so convenient and economical that it has decided to make it standard practice by
writing it into the club constitution. The new web server feature makes
'outsourcing' your website to third parties unnecessary, again resulting in
cost savings and a site that can
be maintained with tools you already know (e.g. MS Word and many other programs that
can create files in .htm format).
Tighter control of
defaulters and the means to easily reach them via email and SMS improve the
club's cash flow. In many cases savings will be even larger, taking into
account the
total expenditure on consumables, stationery, postage, and work hours. AS Club can do away
with 'snail-mail', as
practically every club member can nowadays be reached through email and
SMS. Of course, AS Club can also produce attractive hardcopy instead of,
or in addition to, electronic documents.
Convenience features, such as the automated production of member
ID-cards add to the utility of the program. Thanks to the built-in web
camera support, you can snap a member's photograph on site and immediately print an
ID card, or alternatively attach a portrait scanned-in from a
photograph.
You don't have to be a computer expert to operate AS Club as the learning curve
is very gentle: an illustrated
walk-through and an in-depth tutorial will introduce you to the software in no
time at all. The necessary
'house-keeping' functions, such as month-end processing, or
backup/restore are easily performed one-click operations.
AS Club is a completely autonomous native Microsoft Windows™ application that is fully
functional without Internet access. However, if available, the Internet enables
very useful additional features:
• program output can be distributed electronically to members through
email
• short but urgent text messages to members can be sent out as SMS
• AS Club can receive program updates automatically from the Austrosoft website
• up to seven duplicates (generations) of the AS Club database are
maintained
on the Austrosoft web server and can be very easily retrieved
should the
need arise
• AS Club can run the club website and allows access to accounting data
The
AS Club Scheduler - Automating Account Management
One of the core functions of AS Club is debiting member accounts with
membership and service fees according to a predetermined schedule.
Set up individually for each member account, it holds information about the
services a member has signed up for as well as their individual
start dates, end dates, and payment intervals. With one
mouse-click you schedule
debits to be posted annually, biannually, quarterly, or monthly,
in any combination. Non-authorized payment intervals may be
disabled (grayed-out) beforehand, so as to avoid operator errors later
on.
The picture shows a portion of the scheduler control panel. Turning services on or off, setting dates and payment intervals is accomplished in seconds. If modifying a service should result in an overcharge, AS Club will post the correct adjustment automatically. Adjustments are accumulated for each sub-account and remain separate from debits and credits, so as to be easily identifiable on reports. |
Monthly interest on overdue accounts is optional and will be
charged observing a user-determined grace period.
Memberships, facilities and payment schemes can be added, edited or deleted with monthly effect. Thorough plausibility checks and the validation of critical user actions assure the consistency of the database. Keyboard input is generally reduced to a minimum, but if necessary, strict validation of the input data reduces the risk of human error. A degree of decision-taking, based on a set of rules, simplifies the maintenance of accounts. For instance, each chargeable service or facility on offer is represented as a club sub-account. When a payment is posted, it is automatically shared out among sub-accounts requiring settlement. As a consequence, the balance on club sub-accounts is at all times up-to-date and can thus be easily monitored. This feature is also a prerequisite for the automated consolidation of club sub-accounts from electronic bank statements.
The functional graphical user interface is easy to work with and
helps 'getting from A to B' with a minimum of clicks, thus reducing the time
spent navigating.
Memberships are not static - in
fact, changes may occur quite
frequently. They may be caused by
adjustments to the club's fee structure, the status and personal
details of members, or the modalities of payment. New services or
facilities may be introduced, others may be discontinued, and so
on.
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