Version 10 users – Here’s new but overlooked time saving feature

To all Version 10 users: I owe you an apology for not pointing out and emphasizing a new feature that helps make adding new price lines easier, quicker and even more accurate. When entering new price lines you are presented with this screen… You could fill in the blanks to create a new price line but … note the word …

Plant Images for use with Gardenware: A discussion of sources

We hope that everyone who inquires about Gardenware or purchases Gardenware is aware that photographs of the plants are not included with the program. There are a lot of descriptions (close to 7500 of them) included in the program. Since the mid `90s, the Gardenware program has allowed the user to attach pictures to items in the libraries for printing …

“I Can’t Use My Photos! Everything worked last week. What’s going on?”

In the last few weeks we have received calls from Gardenware users who suddenly found that they could not get access to their pictures for printing them on Gardenware signs.  In each case the operating system was either Vista or Windows 7. Also, in each case the user had stored their plant pictures in the Pictures folder that Microsoft so conveniently …

More Templates: Microsoft Word Templates for Garden Center “Groups”

As some of you know, Mary Lee and I owned and operated a garden center at the North Oregon Coast for nearly 30 years. One of our “perennial” issues was the pricing of groups of items such as succulents, ground covers, annuals, basket stuffers, perennials and others. We couldn’t, or at least didn’t want to price each plant. We tried …

Templates: how to them & a few uses

A number of our customers are not retail garden centers nor growers who sell to them (though a great many are).  Hardscape suppliers are a typical example, landscapers who want to label stock with a simple BIG NAME on a label to help assure that the right plants get on the right truck and into the right hole at the …

Gardenware Version 10 ready for release in January

Gardenware V 10 is in final Beta testing and should be out the door in January.  Here is some info to help answer questions you may have. The operation is very similar to the current V 32, though nicely streamlined. Most of the screens are very similar but the program has been almost entirely re-written and compatible with Microsoft’s most …

Pictures in Gardenware: an introduction

As most of you users and prospective users know, you may attach an image to each or any item in your Gardenware libraries for printing on signs or the new Hang Tag in Version 10. The process is easy. We have prepared a short video tutorial. Just click HERE. The images can come from a number of sources. CDs such …

When Bigger (or More) Isn’t Necessarily Better

We set up this blog some time ago so it would be ready when we were. To our dismay it has been delayed by months but here we go. We don’t like to start off on what might be considered a negative note but we feel this is something you should be aware of. Many of us have moved to …

Our first message

This is the first post on our new blog.  We plan to have at least a monthly posting of news and information on features in Gardenware that a number of users haven’t yet discovered.  It is our hope that Gardenware users, and prospective users, will find this a useful hub to communicate with us and each other – to ask …