SOUTH BAY Marina Green Bay WI Product Solutions: For the past four years, we have been gradually converting our marina operating systems to the MarinaOffice suite of products. We have used a phased approach during this transition, to ensure a smooth roll-out of each of the elements. Phase I began in 2013. It involved creating a marina map and entering slip / customer data into MarinaOffice to streamline our slip rental and billing process. In 2014 PureRetail, PureTime and X-Charge credit card processing were added to the mix. In 2015, we expanded our use of additional MarinaOffice applications including: MeterWalk for dock checks, PureRestaurant for use at our poolside bar and XGift cards to our marketing programs. We also began making transient reservations and collecting payment for transient stays through MarinaOffice and PureRetail. In fall of 2016, we integrated our off-season heated winter storage reservation system into the MarinaOffice environment. At the same time, we began a beta test [with our customers] of the E-Bill Pay and E-Signature features. Beginning this spring [2017], we began utilizing PureService for all maintenance and service work orders and billing. To streamline our billing and document delivery / acceptance functions, we also added E-Bill Pay and E-Signature in conjunction with MARIAH to our array of customer focused offerings. This coming fall, we will add our inside and outside cold storage reservation functions into MarinaOffice. When all phases are completed, we will have totally integrated MarinaOffice into the operational side of our business. MarinaOffice will be providing the backbone and framework to support all our back-office management functions. We are very pleased with how everything works and would recommend this software solution to others. Technical Support / Service: As we moved forward with this integration, we have found the tech support staff at Scribble to be very helpful in addressing our needs. They respond to our requests in a timely fashion, are very knowledgeable about their product, work expeditiously to resolve problems and take time to make sure we understand how to better utilize the various applications. At the same time, they have been open to suggestions we have made to enhance system applications and have passed those suggestions on to their product development team for review.

Easy to use and very relevant to the marina operating environment

The integration / connection time with Quick Books is slow. It is somewhat cumbersome to have to go into Quick Books to change retail prices.

Solutions: "Our 135 Slip Marina was still using the old Z-Tape cash registers and paper cards to keep track of transient slip rentals. Our staff had never used software for managing slips or for point of sale. It was intimidating researching the different software options and to think of changing our comfortable paper system and going digital. It was a big step in changing how our company operates. We are so happy with our decision to add Scribble Software Solutions to support our business. Our Marina added MarinaOffice with PureRetail in 2015 and LaunchOffice the Spring of 2016. MarinaOffice works flawlessly with our QuickBooks accounting and inventory software, which was a priority for us. LaunchOffice works so well for scheduling that the old system was quickly forgotten. Our staff adapted easily and the communication and workflow run smoothly. We were nervous changing our system during the busy Spring Season but the installation went smoothly and our learning curves were helped considerably by the Scribble Support Team. The technical support from Scribble is awesome! We feel very lucky that we found Scribble Software Solutions."

It is easy to use and gives us the functionality that we need. Love that we can make our own SKU codes. The best thing about Scribble Software is their sales and support staff. They are great people.

The SKU search functionality in the POS system could be improved.

Although we patch together and do not use all the features, it works for multi-point data entry for our marina complex.

It is dynamic. It works well for multi-points of data enter (i.e. customer can charge in repair shop, motel, gas dock and the statement will show charges for all areas) Pureretail can handle a large quantity of items and customers.

It has lots of bugs that the company refuses to fix. It does not handle Florida sales tax using the proper brackets. It write incorrect data to Quickbooks.

We've been using Scribble Software since 2015 and are very pleased with its ease of use. Our employees who have been working here for several years, were very reluctant when first introduced to the new program, but are using it with ease. We are a commercial fishing dock and with the help of the Scribble Team, were able to We were able to customize PureRetail and MarinaOffice to bill out our fish across the dock and other services we provide much more easily than in the past. Service: It was an easy transition once it was all set up. Scribble Support is excellent, even using the standard plan.

We've been using Scribble Software since 2015 and are very pleased with its ease of use. Our employees who have been working here for several years, were very reluctant when first introduced to the new program but have adapted well to it. We are a commercial fishing dock and with the help of the Scribble Team, were able to We were able to customize PureRetail and MarinaOffice to bill out our fish across the dock and other services we provide much more easily than in the past." It was an easy transition once it was all set up. Scribble Support is excellent, even using the standard plan.

The functionality of Marina Office allows us to configure and tailor the software package to conform with the practices and procedures our marina management has directed. Specifically, this has involved using Marina Office as the central repository and source for all information about customers, slips, and monthly invoicing. While the Marina Office interface with Quickbooks is essential, most of the day-to-day queries and ad-hoc reporting requirements are far more easily accomplished when Marina Office is used as the central information source about the marina and our customers.

Marina Office offers a fine balance between being functional, while flexible enough to configure its use towards a specific set of marina application requirements

I think the graphics package could use a few enhancements such as ease of use and more options for color-coding schemes. Also, the software needs a larger number of user defined fields for ad-hoc selecting, sorting , and merging.