Financial analysis, budgeting & benchmarking software prices for printing and packaging businesses
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Financial analysis & benchmarking software for printing and packaging businesses.
Premium Edition
$995 /year
or $95/month
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
Professional Edition
$1,495 /year
or $145/month
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
Product summary
Designed for small to midsize printing and packaging companies, the Premium Edition supports a single user and a single company, yet includes the full range of powerful features.
Designed for larger printing and packaging companies, the Professional Edition offers all the capabilities of the Premium Edition plus multi-user and multi-company functionality.
Enter data for multiple companies. * Starts with up to 5 sets and add more as needed.
1 * Unlimited
Multi-User. Create individual user login accounts and access roles for improved collaboration with your coworkers.
1 Unlimited
Provides insight into the purpose of each ratio and what it means to your company, your performance score for each ratio, where your company is doing the best, and advice for improving the areas that need attention.
- Labor, material, factor, overhead, and other costs
- Plant productivity and efficiency
- Operations, accounting, and other business practices
- Sales win/loss, sales support costs, and commissions
- Break-even, contribution, and profit margins
- And other advice for improving your company
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Analyzes Income Statement Ratios and benchmarks against other firms and the profit leaders
- Percentage of Sales and Value Added
- Paper and Substrates
- Click Charges
- Outside Services
- Factory Wages & Expenses
- Gross Profit
- Selling General Administrative Wages & Expenses
- Net Profit (Loss) Before Income Taxes
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Analyzes and benchmarks your Balance Sheet Ratios and benchmarks against other firms and the profit leaders
- Current Assets
- Current Cash
- Current Accounts Receivable
- Current Inventory
- Fixed Assets
- Factory Machinery Fixed Assets
- Current and Fixed Assets
- Current and Long Term Liabilities
- Shareholders' Equity
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Analyzes your Liquidity & Activity Ratios and benchmarks to other firms and the profit leaders
- Current Working Capital Ratio
- Quick Acid Test Ratio
- Days Cash For Operating Expenses
- Days Sales Outstanding Collections
- Return on Net Assets (RONA)
- Paper and other Substrates Ratios
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Analyzes your Employee Ratios and benchmarks to other firms and the profit leaders including:
- Percent of Factory, Admin, & Sales Employees
- Sales per Factory, Admin, & Sales Employee
- Payroll per Factory, Admin, & Sales Employee
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Analyzes your Operations practices and benchmarks to other firms and the profit leaders including:
- Estimates Per Estimating Employee
- Estimate Win / Loss Rate
- Orders Per Order Entry Employee
- Orders Created via a Web Storefront
- Spoilage Costs % of Sales & Value Added
- Training Costs % of Sales & Value Added
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Analyzes your Purchasing & AP practices and benchmarks to other firms and the profit leaders including:
- Purchasing Practices
- Inventory Management Practices
- Accounts Payables Practices
- Vendor Payments Practices
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Analyzes your Invoicing & AR practices and benchmarks to other firms and the profit leaders including:
- Job Costing Practices
- Invoicing Practices
- Accounts Receivables Practices
- Customer Payments Practices
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Analyzes, benchmarks, and compares multiple financial years. Starts with up to 5 years and add more as needed.
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Benchmarks your company's financials against hundreds of other firms and the profit leaders. Select, filter, or narrow down the list of companies you want to compare against including:
- Geographic region (i.e., Northeast, Northwest, Canada)
- Sales range (i.e., $1-5 million, $5-10 million, $60-80 million)
- Market segments (i.e., commercial, labels, POP, signs, apparel)
- Equipment (i.e., sheetfed, web, wideformat, inkjet, flexo, screen)
- And many other criterias
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Engineered by industry experts based on industry best practices and formulas.
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A real live industry expert consultant can help you maximize the features and benefits by providing FREE training, help with set up and updating, review and critique your rates, or whatever you need to successfully implement your rates.
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A comprehensive online help, AI, live phone support from a consultant, and a Quick-Start guide with easy to understand instructions, industry best practices, examples, and tips for setting up, updating, and implemention.
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Over 50 detail and summary reports and graphs with drill-down directly to the detailed source data help you reconcile and manage your cost rates.
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PC, MAC, iPad, tablet compatible Cloud, Anywhere, Anytime Access. There's no software to install and you automatically receive the latest enhancements.
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Your data is held in strict confidentiality and protected with the highest levels of security ryptographic protocols, data encryption, and complex password strength requirements.
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No contracts. If you are not satisfied for any reason, you may cancel anytime. Easily upgrade anytime as your business grows without losing your information.
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If you're not 100% happy within the first 30 days of your purchase, for any reason, we'll refund your money. What do you have to lose?
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Profectus, Inc. · Sarasota, Florida · United States · Phone: 1-888-868-8662
Business management consultants specializing in the printing & packaging industry since 1993.
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