Run your Net café business more effectively
SmartLaunch is a nice, trial version Windows program, being part of the category Business software with subcategory Vertical Markets (more specifically Cyber Café).
More about SmartLaunch
It's available for users with the operating system Windows 95 and prior versions, and you can get it in English. The software version is 4.1 and it has been updated on 9/20/2006.Since the program was added to our catalog in 2002, it has managed to obtain 2,283 downloads, and last week it had 0 downloads.About the download, SmartLaunch is a slick program that will require less storage than most software in the section Business software.
It is now possible to have up to four users on a consoleNew login screen for consolesGet daily statistical and financial reports by emailIt is now possible to export financial data to formats such as Excel and PDFYou can now use barcode enabled membershipcards to login usersYou customers can now receieve signup- and membership expiration emailsIt is now finally possible to use mySQL instead of AccessNew introduction wizard for new Smartlaunch customersImproved PUF system, now even faster and compatible with custom pathsIt is now possible to use custom images for games and programsNew functionality has been added to the application setupEarlier issues in relation to client-server connection has been solvedGeneral stability fixes in all three modules of SmartlaunchAlong these features are a lot of minor features and improvements
Changes
It is now possible to have up to four users on a consoleNew login screen for consolesGet daily statistical and financial reports by emailIt is now possible to export financial data to formats such as Excel and PDFYou can now use barcode enabled membershipcards to login usersYou customers can now receieve signup- and membership expiration emailsIt is now finally possible to use mySQL instead of AccessNew introduction wizard for new Smartlaunch customersImproved PUF system, now even faster and compatible with custom pathsIt is now possible to use custom images for games and programsNew functionality has been added to the application setupEarlier issues in relation to client-server connection has been solvedGeneral stability fixes in all three modules of SmartlaunchAlong these features are a lot of minor features and improvements
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User reviews about SmartLaunch
by Anonymous
Expensive, No Support and Phantom Features.
SmaryLaunch started off well enough, but at $2.50 per device per month it gets expensive fast. That would be fine if there were support, and you will need support, but there is nothing that most would call support. They like to respond, if and when they get around to responding, with "read the knowledge base." They do this even if the problem is NOT in the knowledge base (KB) and/or if you have indicated that you have read the pertinent KB entries. It's as if the support people don't know the product themselves.I could not get one "feature" at to work at all and their ultimate response was, "I am sorry that you feel that way [that it doesn't work]." Now, how's that for support?!After a while I got the idea that several of the features were "phantom." I use virtual PCs to test and I good not get several of the features to work. A lot of those "features" were poorly documented, if they were at all, and support's typical response, if they responded at all, was "read this or that KB article."Ultimately this is a good Cafe management software for a small cafe or one not needing any of the advanced ("phantom") features, but then why would you want to pay $2.50 per device per month for basic features.
Pros:
Polished interface
Cons:
No Support
Expensive
Even more expensive considering the above
Most advanced "features" don't work More