Welcome to Best Consignment Shop Software

Below are links to common features. Scroll down on the left for a comprehensive list of topics.

Back Up Your Data! - The data stored in the FoxPro database belongs to you. It is your responsibility. Back up your data regularly. We offer free online storage of your data but we do not guarantee that those files will be complete. See Data Backup for instructions.

Search in BCSS In all Work Areas (except Sales and Disbursements) click in the box named 'Enter Search' and enter the first part of an ID then press the Blue 'I' Button to find a record by ID. Enter the first part of a Name and press the Blue 'N' Button to find a record by name.

Records can also be found by entering search parameters in Reports Screen. See Reports.

Would you pay $10,000 for consignment software? Would you risk buying software from an individual posing as a 'software company'? Would you pay for software you don't own? (No? Then make this mandatory reading.)

Perennial Fees: BCSS has no ongoing fees. Software 'bugs' should be fixed free of charge, so if the software performs as advertised (support rarely needed!) and updates are free as advertised, then what are 'service fees' for? The answer: 'Annual service fees are nothing more than the transfer of more money from you to the software provider that increases your cost of using their software. In other words, it is part of the 'purchase price'. The first payment is a 'down payment' and subsequent services fees are annual installment payments. If fees aren't paid important and necessary software updates are denied.

Reliability: Other than BCSS and Liberty, every other program is offered by and dependent upon one person - moonlighters, part-timers and individuals attempting to portray a 'company image'. One risk to doing business with an individual is that he or she may not survive in this business. (It's a small market and we are extremely price competitive.) Another risk germane to 'Consignpro' is that 'Brian Wilson' may decide that you are too much trouble and refuse to provide service and not refund your money. (He recently admitted in a public forum that he 'fires' customers when he decides they become more trouble than they are worth. He was also exposed for issuing a 'free update' to a group of people who had not paid optional support fees. The 'update' disabled their software and he refused to enable the software until he was paid off.)

Ownership: You own BCSS. You can resell it later and recover more than half your cost. Other vendors don't make a sufficient effort up front to let potential buyers know the are selling 'software licenses only' which do not pass ownership of the software to you. You cannot resell it. In essence, users of their software are only renting the software. Of Special Note: When asked, Liberty says their software can be resold but they often fail to explain further that they charge a 50% commission which pretty much assures that the seller won't realize any revenue from the sale. Wilson at Consignpro says his software can be resold then fails to explain that it can only be sold if someone buys your store and uses exactly the same business name, location, address and phone number - which rarely happens.

Add-On Charges: To hide high costs and advertise false lower purchase prices, some vendors remove essential features from their high-priced programs and charge big fees to add the features back. They mark up hardware and shipping costs substantially and over-charge ($300) for additional copies of their software. For example, CCE in Boulder, CO provides a demo with layaways, special promotions and buy outright included. Upon purchase those features are stripped with little or no fanfare and users are left to discover later that it will cost an additional $180 to add those features back.

Instructions for BCSS Intro, Deluxe, Diamond and Virtual are included so all features may be known.

...to view topics. (The scroll button will look different on various Windows setups.) Double click on a topic to view information about it in this window.

First, identify the subject or topic. In this case, the topic is consignors, so use the scroll button to scroll down to the Consignors Section:

RIGHT click on any page and select Print Preview (or Print). Adjust these settings

for optimal viewing, then print.

Method 2. Right click on any html page in (C:\BCSS or C:\Program Files(x86) or C:\Program Files\BCSS) and select print.

The printed version of the manual does not include sections on BCSS Intro and Virtual, Buyer and Employee Records, Mall Floor Space Rental, Networking, QuickBooks, Rentals, Scan Guns (except POS-X), Used Books Consignment Software, and several topics from the Administration section.

Here in the manual, under Getting Started, read Program Setup and Quick Start. If you are connected to the Internet, these presentations should also prove helpful. (Use the browser's back button (far upper left) to return here.)

BCSS has run without error on over 2,000 computers. If you experience long wait times and 'crashes' or 'lock ups' -

If 'virus protection', 'Windows Updates' and 'defrag' are foreign terms, your PC might stand to benefit from your reading PC Maintenance.

Your business must have reliable email service. Free email services (Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc.) often block attachments and send good emails to the spam folder. Contact your ISP and ask them how to use your email account with them to avoid communication problems.

For free email support, send us an email. (Add the domain name mm.st to your email program's Approved Senders List or White List to lessen the chance that spam filters will block our emails to you. (Instructions) For phone and remote PC help, contact: Joy Archer, enJoy Consigning Services, 972-898-7921 (NY), Email, or Computer Mechanics, 800-448-1436 (MI), email.

Bar Codes:	Assign Codes \| Configure Scanner \| Print Sheet Labels \| Print Thermal Labels \| Scan at POS
Buyers:	Add/Edit \| Address Labels \| Buyer Fee \| Credit Memo \| Fixed Discount \| Refunds \| Reports
Checks:	Adjust Print \| Bad Checks \| Cancel \| Print \| Settlement
Consignors:	Account History \| Add/Edit \| Agreement \| Credit Sale \| Consignor % \| Delete \| Inventory List \| Pay 1 \| Reports \| Total Owed
Data:	Backup \| Export \| Import \| Lost \| Restore \| Send to Support \| Transfer to Another PC
Employees:	Audit Till \| Commission Payment \| Commission Schedule \| Reports
Hardware:	Cash Drawers \| Networking \| All BCSS Printers \| Receipt Printers \| Thermal Printers \| Scanners
Inventory:	Add/Edit \| Batch Delete \| Batch Enter \| Categories \| Discount \| House Account \| Reports \| POS \| Resale \| User-Defined Groups
Intro:	Basics \| Address Labels \| Checks \| Inventory \| New Sale \| Price Labels \| Reports \| Settlements
Labels:	About \| Adjust Print \| Detailed Labels \| Hang Tags \| Medium Labels \| Print a Few \| Small Labels \| Suppliers \| Thermal \| Troubleshooting
Printing:	Address Labels \| Agreements \| Checks \| Hang Tags \| Invoices/Receipts \| Price Labels \| Print Setup
Printers:	BCSS & Printers \| Bubble/Ink/Laserjet \| Epson Receipt \| POS-X Receipt \| Star Receipt \| Troubleshooting \| TSC \| Zebra
Receipts:	3" Receipts \| Letter-Size Receipts \| \| Logos \| Epson Printers \| Extra Feeds \| POS-X Printers \| Star Printers
Reports:	Buyers \| Consignors \| Disbursements \| Employees \| Inventory \| Quick Reports \| Sales
Sales:	Buyer Fee \| Correct Mistakes \| Credit Sale \| Discounts at POS \| Net Profit \| New Sale \| Refunds/Returns \| Store Credit \| Tax
Settlements:	About \| Adjustments \| Aged Batch \| Batch \| Checks \| Reports \| Settle 1 Consignor \| Test Print
Virtual:	About \| Register Consignors \| Report \| Setup \| Speed Up Upload \| Upload