BarTender vs. Procare vs. suppliesMGR

Bartender may well be suited for larger companies who have people with Bartender experience, but it is an unnecessarily complex suite of apps that takes some getting used to. Smaller IT shops looking for something more user-friendly, slightly less expensive, and more streamlined should look for alternatives. Some applications are built specifically to use Bartender template files, and in those cases, you may not have an alternative.

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It's good for monitoring and communication, but is very clunky when it comes to billing. It's nice that all messages for a student come up in the same conversation, but it would be nice if I could send message to only Administration or only room staff and also receive notification that my message has been read.

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• Can create macros to test ranges of serial numbers
• can be linked to electrical test stations in assembly of electronic modules

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• Track attendance
• Accepts monetary payments
• Customer service
• Responding to feedback and customer suggestions

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• Resource Intensive - Can use a lot of resources
• Pricey - But you get what you pay for
• Licensing can be quite difficult to understand

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• Formatting of their home screen
• Changing email addresses attached to accounts (staff and parents)
• Message filtering for large group messages

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Easy to renew and update the license

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I often have to try to troubleshoot printing issues for other team members, but I have never reached out to a BarTender support network. I’ve always just tinkered within the app to figure it out.

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We do use Zebra label designer, a free product, in circumstances where we don’t need a complicated label, such as no serialization, no connection to a dynamic database, etc. If we were to pull those instances into BarTender, we would need more licenses, which are expensive

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We have used Sandbox, which was bought out by Procare and will become obsolete. The program had many good features, but in most ways we find that Procare has surpassed Sandbox. The interface as a staff person is very user-friendly, messages are more easily sent to parents, and parents have found this simple to navigate as well

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• Increased accuracy and consistency
• Improved speed of batch printings
• Customization permitted adapted features for our unique applications saving time and efforts

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• parent communication is more fluid
• changes in daily schedules are quickly communicated
• child security is handled well
• we are able to send documents and receive parent signatures through the program

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