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Who is Dive Admin for?
- Medium to large operations with 10+ customers per day will benefit the
most from using Dive Admin. If you are a smaller operation the immediate
benefit is smaller simply because you are not spending that much time
with administration anyway. However, over time information tends to
accumulate, when this happens Dive Admin will start to offer an advantage
over any administrative solution that doesn't utilize a database, no
matter the size of the dive operation.
What are the benefits compared to a non database solution such
as Excel?
- The most fundamental advantage is that you will have all your
information in a proper database as opposed to a bunch of excel
documents. A database can easily be searched to retrieve exactly
the information you want in a fraction of a second. To say that your
important data will be more ordered is an understatement.
- Speed, due to the logic in Dive Admin repeated input of certain data
will be a memory of the past, this fact will not compromise flexibility,
all information prepopulated in this way can be changed at time of input.
- Built with internet technology. Sending a mail to all of
your customers that matches any number of search criteria is as simple
as pressing a button. Hooking up with Dive Admin to administer various
aspects of the daily operations from anywhere in the world is not only
possible, it's one of the foundations of Dive Admin. Various partners
can have their own special access to the database no matter where they
reside. An example would be if you create a user account for a travel agent
in a completely different part of the world, as soon as this agent
books customers they can enter all the necessary information directly into
the database. They would do the job for you! Using Dive Admin as a remote
service would also allow you to integrate parts into your present homepage. You
could for instance have a form where customers can book themselves and the data
would end up in the Dive Admin database, yet again: The job would be done for you.
Are there any cons at all?
- Unfortunately there is one, you will be more limited in how data is represented, in an Excel
sheet it's no big deal to add a column and what not. However when said sheet is generated
from data in the database it uses a so called template. Editing these templates is not as easy
as editing the sheet itself.
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