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Specialised Software for Art & Antiques Dealers
Spend less time managing your business
and more time selling!
What is Antiquity?
How will Antiquity help me?
Antiquity is a total business management software solution
that helps you manage your business more efficiently. Antiquity
allows all the elements of your business to work together and
avoids you needing to enter data repeatedly.
Antiquity was developed to specifically meet the varied business
management needs of art & antiques dealers. With Antiquity,
all sales and marketing requirements are controlled from one
programme. For example: add new stock items, then watch them
automatically appear on your website; print labels and mail
merge letters without the need to purchase additional word
processing software; automatically calculate your VAT for margin
scheme sales and review financial reports to see where your best
sales are coming from and where to market your business.
Why should I use Antiquity?
Keeping track of clients, stock, images and sales can be done
using spreadsheets, files and lots of paper, but that can lead
to lost information, missed sales and headaches. Plus you also
need to manage your website, set up e-mail promotions and
more besides… No easy task! Antiquity does it all for you and
keeps all of your information in one place so that you can spend
more time selling and less time worrying about
administrative tasks.
Easy to Use
• Extremely user-friendly, even for the PC novice
• Only enter information once. No more duplicated data!
• All data in Antiquity is saved automatically
• Antiquity can be easily shared over a network*
Stock Control
• Makes stock control really easy
• Completely automated image resizing, renaming and copying
• Total control over your stock categories and subcategories
• Automatically adds new stock to your Antiquity website
• Sold stock automatically removed from your website or marked
as sold
• Supports margin scheme and regular VAT pricing
• Supports unique items, multiples, bespoke and consignments
• Tracks shared purchases and restoration costs
• Automatically converts prices to display in multiple currencies
Website Management
• Includes a ready-to-go website designed especially for the art & antiques market*∞
• Adjustments to standard website template and bespoke website customisation available
• Antiquity website includes full e-commerce facilities for online sales
• Includes all hosting and configuration
• The Antiquity website is an option, you can keep you existing website if appropriate
Contacts
• Manages all of your prospects, clients and suppliers in one place
• Analyses and categorises contacts for marketing and reporting
• Automated address look-up: Just ask your customers for a house number & postcode*
• Immediate access to each contact’s full history, including all correspondence, full sales
history and much more
Invoices
• Effortless generation of invoices
• Margin scheme VAT and Artists Resale Rights (Droit de Suite) calculated automatically
• One-click to email an invoice to a client
• Records all sales & purchase data and provides full history
• Sophisticated financial reporting, e.g. sales values by exhibition, gross profit, value of
current stock, debtors, deposits, statements, temporary import and many more. These reports
will help to keep you in control of your business.
Communications & Email
• Easily mail merges letters, emails & labels without using any additional software
• Easy emailing of selected stock information to selected clients via Adobe PDF or HTML emails
• Incoming emails are automatically linked to their respective customer records, providing instant
access to a full communications history
Peace of Mind
• Antiquity software comes with a full support, web hosting and
updates package for your complete peace of mind
• Unlimited telephone, email & remote log-on support
• Future updates to software and website included
• SSL security certificate included for website e-commerce
• Transfer of data from your existing systems available*
Technical Specifications
• Compatible with: Macintosh (10.7 - 10.10) & Windows (7 - 8.1)
• Minimum screen resolution 1280 x 1024
• Can be easily shared over a network*
Pricing
Antiquity is available with various options. All prices in UK £ excluding VAT
Item
Initial
**Monthly
Antiquity Software single computer licence
595
100
Extra computer licence
395
50
Integrated website starter template
295
n/a
The Monthly fees include all your support, updates and web hosting.
Options
The following options are also available, please ask for more details:
• Website customisation • Staff training
• Server licence (required with 4 or more PCs)
• Onsite installation
• Address / postcode lookup
• Data conversion
*Optional **Minimum contract 12 months ∞ Website customisation available
Our Customers Say...
Manfred Schotten, Manfred Schotten Antiques
“What first attracted us (to Antiquity) was that the stock
database, website, email, invoicing etc. are all linked,
making communication with clients and web updates (for
example) a lot simpler for us. The programme has been well
thought out and tailored to suit any dealer! The support has
been super; we have been in regular contact with Antiquity
who have listened to all our requirements. It has all the
improvements we were looking for on our previous database.”
Sean Clarke, Christopher Clarke Antiques
In this age when it is impossible to run a business without a
computer, it is important to have software that enables you to make the
most of the customer and stock data that you have worked hard to get.
Antiquity does this and more, allowing us to organise our business
efficiently, controlling our stock and updating our client and supplier
records easily.
Andrew Damonte, Westenholz Antiques
“Antiquity software has transformed our business. Our clients know
that our website is completely up to date, accurate and we are able
to send out quotes instantly to one or all our clients seamlessly.
Invoices, statements, VAT reports are all bonus features. The real
gem here is the ability to have a database of clients/suppliers
that has no duplicates. Each contact has a sales history and the
history of what they’ve been quoted on specific items. With
Antiquity, we have a mine of information immediately available;
no other company could provide such a detailed history using a
combination of Word/Excel or anything else. Our records link to
each other within our system so I have the ability to report on
almost anything to do with the stock and our contacts,
extremely quickly. This concept of one software solution for a
small business is the way of the future. Anyone still using stock
books, web programs and Photoshop should think again. Until
you have a single solution that ties everything together, it’s hard to
explain the benefits, but if you had to go back to when you bought your first
computer this is probably what you might have dreamed of. If you are thinking
about using Antiquity for your business, here are some of the daily tasks I
don’t have to do or think about anymore:
1. Using a calculator or Excel for any business function.
2. Creating a Word document that needs to be saved and emailed. A PDF is
more universal and always is the correct file size, and it’s created and saved
for you with just one click.
3. Resizing images for email, web or a quote (yes that’s 3 times if you want to
do it properly). 4. Trying to keep a record of what was quoted to a client at any given point
in time.
5. Struggle with an address book - Antiquity handles multiple people and
addresses all under one main contact.
6. Trying to work out how much profit you made each month.
7. Update a website, you won’t ever have to take something off the site
because the software will do it for you once sold!
The other features that make Antiquity such a boost to a business are to do
with marketing. We very quickly realized that our clients loved receiving photographs of new stock. Antiquity made this so easy and now we regularly keep
clients updated. Sales just become easier when customers know what you have. My favourite feature? It has to be when a really good client turns up and wants
56 photographs, measurements and prices sent to them. This can now happen
so quickly, you just sit back and wait for the phone call.”
Gregg Baker, Asian Art
“We first saw Antiquity at a focus group at the B.A.D.A in 2008 and found it
truly impressive. They really understand all the different aspects of running an
antiques business and have designed a really slick programme where all the
modules (contacts, stock, invoicing, website updates etc.) are linked together
in an amazingly intuitive way. I’m a bit of a computer novice and found it very
simple to use. They imported our data from our old system, trained us how to
use Antiquity and have given us terrific support which I think is as important as
the software itself. It’s a relatively small investment that it should pay for itself
very quickly and I strongly recommend it to every Antiques dealer.”
Nine Reasons to Choose Antiquity
• Save Money: Antiquity will cost you less per year than you pay a member of administrative staff in just a
single month!
• Make Money: Use the marketing features to send out targeted emails or letters that will generate extra
sales and increased revenue.
• Save Time: Using the features built into Antiquity, you’ll save yourself a huge amount of time currently
spent searching for information or producing reports. Guaranteed!
• Impress Customers: Use the Antiquity website and your customers will be impressed that your website
is always bang up to date.
• Repeat Customers: Customers who know your website is always up to date will visit more often, especially
once they know to just click the ‘Show New Items’ button to instantly see images of all your latest stock.
• Be in Control: For the first time in years, you’ll feel in control of your business rather than being controlled by it!
• Peace of Mind: We provide everything you’ll need. Got a problem, just call or send us an email. With our excellent
telephone support, online demonstration videos and optional on-site staff training, you’ll soon be running a highly
efficient business.
• With Antiquity, you’ll not need to worry about how to use lots of different programs any more. Antiquity combines all the features you need into
one easy-to-use software package. Best of all, no need to enter any information twice ever again!
• Antiquity has been designed with extensive input from dealers like you, so it’s full of features relevant to your business (antiques, fine art,
furniture, ceramics, books, coins, vintage clothing & textiles, toys, teddy bears and many more).
Spend less time managing your business and more time selling!
Antiquity Software
Feedzon Ltd.
Unit F Penfold Trading Estate • Imperial Way • Watford • Hertfordshire • WD24 4YY • England
+44 (0)1923 294 955 [email protected]
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