The first thing you should do when you first start up CompuCarpet is to click on File from the main program window and run the Setup Wizard. The Setup Wizard allows you to quickly enter all your store information. The wizard promts you through each step.

From the File menu on the main screen click on Run Setup Wizard.

1) Enter your store name.
2) Enter your name
3) Enter the street address, city, state and zip where your store is located.
4) Enter the store phone and fax number, your e-mail address, and your website url.
5) Enter your markup rate. Simply enter your markup rate and the software will automatically calculate the retail price of every carpet you carry in your store without you having to do a thing. The default value entered is 1.6. Don’t enter symbols such as $ or %, the software will not allow these. Just enter the numbers.
6) Enter the price of what you charge for the carpet pad. This pad price will be calculated into the total price per square yard.
7) Enter what you charge per square yard for installation labor. This labor price will be calculated into the total price per square yard.
8) If you sell area carpets, enter the price per linear foot you charge for having a carpet bound.
9) Enter Your Price Ranges. The software gives you the ability to rate your carpets as either, lower priced, medium priced, or higher priced carpets. This lets you quickly and easily locate carpets that you carry which will match your customer’s budget.
For lower priced carpet, enter the ceiling price that would constitute a lower priced carpet. Next enter the lower limit and the higher limit of what you would consider a medium priced carpet. Finally, enter the lowest price that you would consider the bottom end of a higher priced carpet. (See below).

10) Enter the Headers And Footers that will be printed on all material that is printed from this program. Usually store owners will use their store name as the Header. The header appears at the top of all printed material. The Footer appears at the bottom of all printed material. This can be the store’s web address, it’s phone number or whatever you like.

11) Enter Your State’s Sales Tax.

12) Indicate Whether Or Not Your State Requires You To Charge Sales Tax For Labor.

13) Enter Default Sale Percentage. CompuCarpet can calculate a sale price for any of the carpets stored in the database. If you have a sale what is usually the percentage off? You can change this at any time in the Setup Defaults window.

14) When You Do Have A Sale Indicate The Carpet Elements Your Sale Applies To. I.E. Carpet, Pad, And/Or Labor.

15) Enter Customer Message. The software has the ability to write custom e-mail price quotes to your customers. You can save a default message in this area and it will appear on all e-mails sent to your customers.

16) Enter All The Carpet Textures You Carry In Your Store. This will help you quickly and easily search all carpets that match a specific texture.

17) Enter All The Carpet Yarns You Carry In Your Store. This will help you quickly and easily search all carpets that match a specific yarn.

18) Click Finish To Save All The Defaults To Your System. When you click Finish the software will go through all saved records and recalculate all totals based on the values that you have entered.

Once you run the Setup Wizard you can modify any of your default settings by accessing the Defaults window which can be accessed from the Options menu of the Main program screen.

One of the most powerful features about this software is the ability it gives the carpet store owner to quickly and easily change markup rate, pad price, labor rate, sales tax, carpet price range, etc... and have it instantly update all the other records in your system. If you decide to charge more for labor, simply change the labor rate in the Defaults window and the change in labor rate will recalculate all the records recorded in your database. This saves you hours of editing time.