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Posted On April 27, 2010 by Shannon Sullivan

Total Party Planner Now Has a Partnership with Constant Contact®!

(4/27/2010) It’s a great tool to build customer loyalty, increase referrals, and promote repeat business.

We’ve teamed up with Constant Contact, the leading email marketing service, focused exclusively on small-business needs. That means we can bring you a proven, powerful and cost-effective way to stay in touch—and stay connected with—your customers and prospects. In fact, Email Marketing complements your current promotions, and takes advantage of what loyal and satisfied customers can do for your business – referrals, repeat purchases, and increased revenue.

Email Marketing makes it easy for you to:

• Communicate regularly with your customers and remind them of your value, so they’ll think of you first
• Easily create and send high-impact, professional-looking email communications in no time at all
• Review, and learn from, your email results with revealing, easy-to-read reports that show you who opened your emails, what links they clicked on, and more
• Build and segment your list of email addresses directly from Total Party Planner, so that you can send focused, tailored emails that get results.

Try It FREE for 60 Days!!

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Posted On October 28, 2009 by Shannon Sullivan

TPP Web Based : New Features Implemented

The Total Party Planner Web-Based version was upgraded on Sunday October 25th with tons of exciting new features. A BRIEF sample of new features include:

• Full compatibility with Safari 4.0.
• Entirely new classification to sell details on an event.
• Ability to quickly reconcile pricing and costing of events that are copied from the past.
• Email hired staff their hire notification(s) with the single click of a button!
• Expanded details about rental ordering.
• Copy an event recursively (ie: every Monday for the next 6 months).
• Much, much, more!

For a FULL list of features released please visit http://totalpartyplanner.com/totalpartyplanner/WebUpdates.asp

As with any of the web-based upgrades, clients need do nothing but simply login! All upgrades are managed by our professional development team.

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Posted On August 18, 2009 by Shannon Sullivan

New Event Wizard Implemented

In a detailed study of what new users wanted in a catering software package, the resultant theme was consistent: “I want to lean the software quickly and easily!”

The study inspired the design team to make Total Party Planner (which is already know as the easiest software in the industry to learn) even easier and faster to learn!

We questioned…

We listened…

We designed…

We developed…

This month, the Total Party Planner team launches it’s highly anticipated, copyrighted, “new event wizard” feature. The prominent benefit of the wizard is that companies can now learn the fundamentals of TPP in literally just minutes -including basic profit analysis!

The new event wizard does more than just book a date for a contact. Users can EASILY generate an event with ALL of the fundamental components : booking detail (who, what, when, where), menu, beverages, rentals, miscellaneous, and staffing.

Lead wizard designer Michael Duncan explains “our goal was to develop a ‘getting started’ model that does NOT require reading through a multi-page getting started guide – or watching video tutorials. And we succeeded! The wizard accomplishes just that.”

Of course the wizard only scratches the surface of the powerful capabilities of the system. Outside the wizard, Total Party Planner expands to recipes, inventory, task management, pack lists, detailed notes, timelines, bulk emailing, extensive reporting, CRM, accounting, with the list going on and on…

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Posted On March 29, 2009 by Shannon Sullivan

TPP Web Based : New Features Implemented

The Total Party Planner Web-Based version has been upgraded with many exciting new features. A BRIEF sample of new features include:

• More custom selection options added to the powerful Query generator.
• Merge duplicate contacts to a single record while preserving entire history.
• Enter refund information for accounts receivables.
• Enhanced features of the bulk emailing section.
• Expanded “quick view” of Inventory details.
• Numerous reports upgraded to display more details – requested directly from our users!

For a FULL list of features released please visithttp://totalpartyplanner.com/totalpartyplanner/WebUpdates.asp

As with any of the web-based upgrades, clients need do nothing but simply login! All upgrades are managed by our professional development team.

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Posted On December 8, 2008 by Shannon Sullivan

TPP Web-Based : New Features Implemented

The Total Party Planner Web-Based version has been upgraded with the following new features:

• New Report! : Accounts Receivable Aging Detail. Accounts receivable by current, 31-60 days, 61-90 days, over 90 days.
• Event Full Search page : new filter option to show/hide the event title.
• Event timeline notes can be defined for both contact (Proposal) and internal (Event Worksheet).
• Option to update the event menu ‘Proposal Sequence and Text’ at the time of building the event menu.
• Outlook Export : event title added to body, client name added to subject.
• Proposal Report : new parameter option to hide the menu items descriptions.
• Event Worksheet Report : vendor detail will print for beverages, rentals and miscellaneous items.
• Event Menu Item Production Worksheet : option to NOT scale units to higher order (ex, ounces to pounds).

As with any of the web-based upgrades, clients need do nothing but simply login! All upgrades are managed by our professional development team.

For a list of more features released please visit http://totalpartyplanner.com/totalpartyplanner/WebUpdates.asp

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Posted On February 23, 2007 by Shannon Sullivan

TPP Web Now MAC Compatible via Firefox Browser

With the explosive popularity of the Firefox browser, it only made sense for our development team to make the Total Party Planner web-based solution compatible with this up-and-coming utility.  Thus, Firefox 2.0 is now officially added to our list of compatible browsers, along with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.

The added advantage of Firefox compatibility is that MAC users can now run our web-based application!!  TPP has always been known in the industry as a “Windows” based company – but that has all changed now.  We look forward to providing software to companies that have chosen MAC as their preferred choice of computers.

The Firefox 2.0 browser is a free download from Mozilla and can be accessed via:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

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Posted On January 3, 2007 by Shannon Sullivan

Announcing Interface with StaffMate Online

To start the new year off with a bang, the Total Party Planner Web team announces its integration with the #1 staff management software in the special events industry - StaffMate Online.

StaffMate Online is the first and only staff scheduling program created specifically for the special events industry. It has the power and flexibility to transform the way you schedule your own on-call staff.  Harness the power of the Internet to slash scheduling calls by 75% or more and nearly eliminate the employee ‘clarification calls’.

How does it work?  Simple.  Seamlessly export staff requirements, with the click of a button, from TPP Web directly into StaffMate Online.  Double entry into 2 systems is eliminated.

A comment from a client site currently using the interface was : “Perfect!”

Both Total Party Planner and StaffMate Online are excited about the opportunity of providing the industry with an integrated solution.

Visit the StaffMate Online website at: http://www.staffmate.com/

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Posted On October 16, 2006 by Shannon Sullivan

QuickBooks(tm) Interface Released for Web Version

We are proud to announce that our popular new web based version of Total Party Planner now interfaces with QuickBooks(tm) Pro.  Simply export selected event invoices from TPP Web - directly to your QuickBooks(tm) company file.  Seamless… efficient… flexible… actually pretty amazing!

The QuickBooks(tm) feature is so crucial to many users of our desktop version, that we were determined to  implement similar functionality for the web as soon as possible.  The release comes 3 months ahead of it’s originally scheduled release date.

The TPP Web interface with QuickBooks(tm) further solidifies Total Party Planner’s place as the leader in web based data management for the catering and banquet management industry.

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Posted On June 15, 2006 by Shannon Sullivan

Web Version Released

Building on the strength of our extremely popular desktop version, the company officially releases it’s new web enabled application.  Subscribers of the web version will have more flexibility than ever before to manage their business.  Imagine “data access from anywhere… anytime”.

This solution is truly the best way for multiple users to work from multiple locations.  No more hassles of internal networking and expensive equipment.

With the introduction of our fully web enabled version, Total Party Planner leaps light years ahead of it’s competition.

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