Upgrading to P3: My First Steps

[Shawnna]

Well, today I took a deep breath and upgraded from PP to P3. It was fairly simple. I took a little time and played around with it. I have a supply order and a sample order sitting there waiting for me to send next month. I guess when I finally get ahold of my January catalog host and find out if she has any orders I might be able to send my first show. Until then I guess I am waiting. It is definately going to take some getting used to.

 

[heat123]

You can do a "mock show" just for the practice! , that's what I did to get the hang of it and used to P3! Now after using it since Sept. there's no lookin back!

 

[letscook04]

Alright!! This time next month you will be saying "how come I've waiting this long to switch"

 

[lacychef]

I"m right there with you Shawnna. I switched this month too. I submitted my first supply order successfully; and my first show will be submitted today.

(nice thing was--I got an email confirmation for my supply order, then an email telling me when it was shipped. NICE!)

 

[pamperedharriet]

P3 has lots of great features. Glad to hear that little by little more and more people are starting to switch!

 

[Shawnna]

I waited out my internet service and they finally offered us high speed internet. I currently have the slowest speed they offer and when I downloaded the program from the PC site it went pretty quickly. If it seems to take too much time with upgrades I will call and have them switch me to the next level. They assured me that it should work fine with the current speed.

When I put in my supply order I hit the finalize button when I was trying to just close out of the order and a pop up said "you can't send with a future date"...or something like that. When you get ready to really send a show do you hit the finalize button and go through the same steps as PP...checking the address, money, host/guest specials, etc...or does it just send it to HO. I didn't spend a lot of time, but I didn't notice any other buttons to do those things.

I love the calendar feature. And, I love that it matches up my contacts to my website and that I could export my addresses to another file. Now if I can just figure out how to export them to my yahoo email account and import them from my yahoo email account to my website and P3....baby steps for me.

 

[Mwalker]

Yes, finalizing orders for shows is very similiar to the previous way. It will double check and remind you about bookings, who is eligible for specials that hasnt used them and so on.

I started as a new consultant with the old software and never fully got used to it before switching. So P3 is about all I know. And it really is good about tracking/organizing everything.