Knowledgebase

The Price Codes file is organized based on Groups, represented by side bar buttons. Each component that goes into the assembly of a custom picture frame, must be categorized into a Group.

In setting up your program, you must determine what item fits into what group. Some are obvious, some are not. E.g. you need to decide whether to place shadow box treatment under the Mounting group (Mount/Stretch in Work Order file) or the Extra group. It is a matter of placing the component, design feature or procedure in the group that you think best fits your way of pricing and organizing. FrameReady comes pre-loaded with a few items in each group as a starting point. It is your job to add or delete items for your particular operation. Then you must set up the pricing for each item in the group in order to make the pricing in the Work Order come out the way you want. When you click in the field for each component on the Work Order, you will see the items for the specific group as they are listed in the Price Codes file. Customizing this part of FrameReady is one of the most important things to do when first setting up your program. Time and effort spent here will be greatly rewarded when designing and pricing a custom frame.

Group Designations

Moulding (Wood, Metal, Plastic, Liner, Fillet, Extender)

Matboard

Fabric

Mat Design

Mounting

Hardware

Glass (plexi, mirrors, etc)

Extra

Fitting

Multi-Angle

Supplies (not in Lite version)

Clicking on one of these buttons will find all records for that group.

Note: The screen always displays the form view. You can see how many records belong to the group, where it says, 1 of ####, No of Records ####.