FrameReady - A Version to Suit Your Needs

All FrameReady programs contain features to price custom framing, manage your customers and their purchases, provide marketing tools to keep customers coming back, help you streamline your production flow and organize your business to be more efficient.

Successfully manage every aspect of the business of art and picture framing.

MAC or PC - Version Comparison Chart


Fast, accurate, consistent pricing - Easy to use software design - Offer stellar customer service

FrameReady LiteFrameReady Lite is designed to accurately, quickly and efficiently price a custom frame job. FrameReady Lite produces the appropriate documents for your customers and helps you order your moulding and matboard supplies. It keeps your framing operation organized and efficient.

Choose this version if you already have a POS system /cash register for tracking your sales.

Particularly useful for photo/camera shops, portrait studios, photography businesses, frame departments, art galleries, new businesses, mobile and home-based framers.

Vendor pricing updates and toll free tech support are available with an active subscription. Networkable. Upgradable to FrameReady.
Wonder Which Version Is Right For You? - Compare Versions!

Make Frame Pricing Fast and Effortless

  • create and price custom frame designs
  • make changes easily and recalculate prices instantly
  • quickly price out complex designs
  • easily order moulding & mat supplies
  • directly market to framing customers
  • add customer's art to readymade frames
  • work on more than one order at a time
  • put an order on hold & come back to it
  • duplicate an order and update it to current pricing
  • e-mail a document to a customer
  • create a smooth production flow from design, to materials, to completion

The perfect way to add framing to your business: FrameReady Lite!

A proven solution for the photographer, artist, photo lab, portrait studio, designer, home-based framer, framing department or business adding custom picture framing to their operation with an existing point-of-sale program in place.

Be organized & profitable - Offer stellar customer service - Stay ahead of your competition

FrameReadyOur premier product, FrameReady, is a point-of-sale retail management software system designed to help you successfully manage every aspect of the business of art and picture framing. It prices custom framing, tracks customers, creates invoices, purchase orders and work orders, handles correspondence and email with extensive marketing tools, generates financial reports, organizes production with shop management tools and tracks art/retail inventory.

Use this version if you require a comprehensive management system for your frame shop, art gallery or framing department.

Interfaces with CMC and visualization software. Bar coding quickly enters corner samples and retail products. Vendor pricing updates and toll free tech support are available with an active subscription. Networkable.

FrameReady - Purchase Order

“In all of the hard choices and decision making required in owning a small business, choosing FrameReady was and still is one of my best moves! I am proud to tell you that we are now in our 11th year of business. I was shopping for a POS software for my fast growing business. FrameReady seemed like the best fit, as with little computer experience, I found myself able to navigate easily with the simple icons and coordinating colors (blue invoice key with blue background).
The program was a lot simpler than others I had looked at and worked for my business as a custom framer without unnecessary bells and whistles.
If I was told that I would need to run a custom framing business without FrameReady and the help of the terrific staff at SoftTouch Solutions I would need to retire! My POS is as important to this business' success as everyone of my employees.”

Stefanie Lalor, owner The Artist Framer, Cranford, NJ

As a custom picture framer, ever needed to....?

  • design with triple mats
  • wrap a liner or mat with fabric
  • price glass placed over the liner or fillet
  • create your own finishes on raw stock
  • price stacked frames
  • design with two fillets in the mats
  • sell retail items with no framing required

Only FrameReady can do all of these and more!

  • change an order after it has been invoiced
  • work on more than one order at a time
  • put an order on hold & come back to it
  • put multiple orders onto one invoice
  • duplicate an order and update it to current pricing
  • e-mail a document to a customer
  • calculate how much to pay your consignment artists at the end of the month

 


What will FrameReady do for me?

FrameReady can help you avoid: costly sizing and pricing mistakes, get you organized, tracks sales and inventory, better market your business and do business better.

Why is FrameReady the choice of Framing & Art Professionals?

Flexible, Comprehensive Pricing

  • Price framing with confidence; accurately and consistently
  • Choose from a variety of custom pricing formulas
  • Become more profitable
  • Keep your vendor pricing up-to-date

Printed Documents and Reports

  • Print professional proposals for customers
  • Print invoices for overdue accounts
  • View sales, receivables and payment reports by the day, month, quarter, or year
  • Print inventory lists to see what you have in stock

Easily Manage: Shop, Customer, and Supplier Data

  • Streamline your framing operation
  • Increase productivity and efficiency
  • Attract your target market with direct mail and e-mail

10 Reasons why framers choose FrameReady

  1. Flexible, comprehensive pricing with instant moulding and matboard price updates over high-speed internet.
  2. Print work orders, proposals, invoices, frame orders, gift certificates and more.
  3. Track and manage customers, artists and suppliers.
  4. Daily sales, receivables and payment reports.
  5. Track inventory of retail products, artwork and framing materials.
  6. Sort customers by ranking and send bulk e-mails or direct mailings for effective marketing.
  7. Create a PDF file of any printout to e-mail to customers or suppliers.
  8. Seamless interface with Fletcher, Eclipse and Wizard CMCs as well as Wizard's Integrated Framer.
  9. Print custom barcode and address labels.
  10. Store digital images of samples, frame jobs and artwork.

FrameReady Multi Site is the full version of FrameReady designed for businesses with a hub and spoke operation!

FrameReady Multi SiteThis program has the identical capacities as FrameReady with the added feature that the files are centralized in one location and accessed remotely from the other locations.

If you have more than one location, with a central framing workshop and inventory, you need FrameReady Multi Site!

All sales and financial reports are kept separate for each location or can be reported on as a whole. Materials list is consolidated into a single order for all sites. Vendor pricing updates and toll free tech support are available with an active subscription.

When do I need FileMaker Server?

When networking FrameReady on more than three computers, it is highly recommended that you use FileMaker Server.
FileMaker Server greatly improves the network performance, reliability and security of your FrameReady program.
It also allows remote access to your FrameReady software over the internet via Remote Desktop (PC), Apple Remote (Mac) or via a Virtual Private Network (required to network multiple store locations over the internet).

 

See the following documents explaining a multi site configuration:

Download PDF FileMain Store With Two Computers, Remote Store With Two Computers

Download PDF FileMain Store With Two Computers, Remote Store With One Computer

FrameReady Wholesale offers all the features found in the full version of FrameReady plus an additional order taking component designed specifically for distributors of moulding and framing supplies.

FrameReady Wholesale

Items can be set up to be priced by a variety of different units. For example, moulding can be sold by length, chop, or join. Matboard can be sold by the box, or by the sheet or cut to size. Same with glass. Hardware can be sold in a variety of price breaks. Customers can be given different discounts for different group. For example, wood moulding can be given a different discount than metal. Or, you can set up customers to receive "preferred" pricing as opposed to "regular" pricing.

With FrameReady Wholesale you can easily track back-ordered items, create a pick list, print a packing list, monitor your inventory levels, and set up thresholds for re-ordering.


System Requirements

Operating System

Minimum Computer

*Mac 10.5.8®

CPU: Intel-based Mac with 1 GB of RAM

*Mac 10.6®

CPU: Intel-based Mac® with 1 GB of RAM

*Windows 7 Ultimate®, Professional®, Home Premium®

CPU: 1 GHz with 2 GB of RAM

*Windows Vista, Ultimate, Business, Home Premium (SP2)®

CPU: 1 GHz with 2 GB of RAM

*Windows XP, Professional, Home Edition (SP3)®

CPU: Pentium 4 (700 MHz or faster) with 2 GB of RAM

*Version stated is the minimum requirement.

Customer Service and Support

SoftTouch Solutions Inc. is passionate about providing the best Customer Service in the industry. Here are the ways we help you to effectively evaluate and use our software. If you have any questions, please contact us at 888-281-3303.

Free Telephone Tutorials

Download a trial from our website or ask for a CD. All demos include a free one-hour over-the-phone tutorial to help you navigate and understand the software. Please call to book your appointment today.

Online Support

View our online training tutorials. There are several easy-to-follow, narrated, videos that explain basic and advanced features of FrameReady.

Technical Support

Telephone tech support is available Mon. - Fri. 9 am - 6 pm EST to all active FrameReady subscribers. Your first year subscription is included in the purchase price.