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| Minotaur Welcomes New Customers |
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| Daily Seafood located in Toronto, Ontario is a wholesale and retail seafood supplier. They provide a large selection of seafood from all over the world to restaurants, hotels and retailers in the Toronto area. They offer same day delivery service 6 days a week. Visit them on the web at www.dailyseafood.ca |
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| Hero Nutritional Products, LLC located in San Clemente, California is a manufacturer and distributor of health supplements such as Yummi Bears - All Natural Children Vitamins, Healthy Indulgence Calcium Supplements and CinnaBetic II—a supplement for Type II Diabetics. These products can be found in drug stores, health food stores and the pharmacy area of many large retailers and grocery chains throughout North America. Visit their website for product information www.heronutritionals.com |
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| York Chicken Wholesale Ltd. is located at 188 New Toronto Street, Toronto ON. York Chicken is a supplier of Fresh Chicken and Fresh/Frozen Turkeys. This FEDERALLY INSPECTED and HACCP RECOGNIZED facility packages poultry products for many large retailers such as NO FRILLS. Perhaps this Christmas your family will enjoy a Butterball Turkey supplied by York Chicken. Visit their website today at www.yorkchicken.com |
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GST Rate Change
January 1, 2008 |
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The GST Rate will be reduced from 6% to 5% effective January 1, 2008.
Your GST Rate can be set in your ASI (System Administration / Modify System Status / Change Company Information) menu. This should not be done before January 1, 2008.
Once changed, the new rate will apply to any new transactions. Those customers who did not upgrade to the date sensitive GST in June of 2006, will need to be careful to override the system calculated GST rate when editing invoices dated prior to Jan 1st. That is, overwrite the 5% system calculated rate with the 6% rate which is the correct rate for invoices dated prior to Jan 1, 2008. Additional informational will follow shortly. |
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| Customer Referral Program |
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| Existing customers who provide referrals and act as a references are invaluable to any sales process. As such, we have put together a program to reward Employers and Employees for their time and effort in a transparent and ethical manner. Rewards are available for New Referrals and also for speaking to a prospective customer as a reference. Below is an outline of the program. |
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| Referring a New Lead |
1. Employer receives a $500 credit on their account to be applied to future fees.
2. Employee receives an iPod Classic (approx. $280)
3. The Lead must make a purchase within 12 months of the referral date.
4. Minotaur must not have been in active dialogue with the lead within the last three months. |
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| Volunteering as a Reference |
1. Employer receives a $250 credit on their account to be applied to future fees.
2. Employee receives an iPod Nano (approx. $170)
3. The Lead must make a purchase within 6 months of reference date.
4. Minotaur must not have been in active dialogue with the lead within the last three months |
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1. Minotaur will only offer a prospect the opportunity to talk with a reference, if we believe they are ready to buy. We value our customer’s time.
2. Minotaur will call the customer in advance to confirm a convenient time.
3. If a prospect insists on speaking with more than one reference, the benefit will be split between the number of companies/employees involved. |
| 4. If an employer has a policy forbidding this type of program, a comparable alternative can be offered such as a donation to a charity of your choice. |
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If you have additional questions or would like to participate in the program, please email
paul@minotaursoftware.com. |
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| Routes and Sequencing |
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| Included in the current generic system is the ability to assign your customers to routes. This is particularly useful for those customers who run their own trucks. Order reports and pick slips can be generated by route to assist with the loading of trucks and managing deliveries. Assigning customers to routes will provide information with respect to the total weight going on a particular truck. If a truck contains too much weight or an order has become a rush delivery, orders can easily be switched between routes using the route allocation screen. A missing orders report is available which will highlight customers on a given route who have not placed an order for a particular period. That way, before your driver next drives that route, order entry staff can telephone those customers in attempt to get an order. |
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In addition to assigning your customers a route, you can also assign them a sequence on that route. This information will provide a delivery list for the driver and invoices can be printed in order of delivery for those customers who deliver the invoice along with the order.
If you would like more information on routing and sequencing abilities or would like a quote to incorporate these features into your system, please speak with your project manager. |
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| November - Trade Show Month |
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Minotaur continues to maintain a strong presence within the industries important to our customers. As such, November has been a busy month for Minotaur’s Sales staff as we participated in 3 tradeshows all to reach the Ontario Food Industry.
The first on November 8th was the Ontario Food Protection Association Annual General Meeting held at the Mississauga Convention Centre. The second was the CIFST (Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology) tabletop at the International Centre in Toronto held on November 13th. The final one was the Guelph Food Technology Association Lot Traceability Symposium held at the Pearson Centre on November 13th and 14th. |
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| In addition to our draw at each trade show for a Virtually Indestructible Keyboard, we also had bags of Italpasta’s new whole wheat pasta (rotini, spaghetti and penne) as giveaways to trade show attendees that stopped at the Minotaur booth. A great big thank you to Minotaur customer, Italpasta, who generously donated these items. |
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| The tradeshow winners of the Virtually Indestructible Keyboards were: |
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CIFST Tradeshow Winner: Hitesh Vyas, Sunny Crunch Foods Ltd.
GFTA Tradeshow Winner: Jeff Jones, Ontario Regional Sales Manager for Domino Printing Solutions Inc.
OFPA Tradeshow Winner: Jennifer Ng, QMI Management Systems
Remember, these enclosed, wipe drown keyboards are inexpensive and great for receiving, shipping and production environments. |
| Visit www.tigerdirect.ca to get one of your own! |
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| User Conference Feedback |
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| The user conference was well attended and overall everyone was pleased with the facility again this year. Below is a table of results showing how you rated the sessions this year. We value your feedback and will try to incorporate some of your suggestions into our next event. |
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Some features you asked about were:
1. User selected fonts and/or larger fonts on reports.
2. Ability to customize appearance of reports and save formatting. ie. bold, title size.
3. Customer ordering templates—this we have, please give your account manager a call.
4. Prevent posting to parent accounts.
5. Options for remote users.
6. Combined/easier customer access for credit management, comments, A/R aging, etc.
We’re working hard to bring as many enhancements to MBS7 as we can. Feel free to forward additional ideas to wendy@minotaursoftware.com. |
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| Quote Submission Winner |
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Congratulations to Eduardo Pineiro of Halenda’s Fine Foods for winning the quote submission contest from the user conference.
Eduardo has won a Minotaur Software polar tec sweatshirt. Congratulations Eduardo!
Visit our website in the new year to see Eduardo’s quote under the testimonials section. |
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| October’s Contest Winner |
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Congratulations to Larry Fawthrop of Dryvit Systems Canada for winning our October newsletter contest. Larry has won a $50 gift card from A&P.
Dryvit Systems is a manufacturer of Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems (EIFS). Energy efficient and attractive finishes for commercial and residential buildings.
Larry is the General Accountant and has been with Dryvit for over 5 years. Larry enjoys camping, hiking and sailing.
We hope you enjoy your Gift ! |
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| Out of the Maze is published to inform our current and potential customers of the latest events and happenings at Minotaur. |
| The information in this newsletter is provided to customers to use at their own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice. |
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