Antiquity is a product of Productive IT (UK) Limited.
Productive IT has been developing, selling and supporting software since 1991. Our first product was a business management programme for photographers (The Photographic Organiser) and this is still a market leader today. Over the years we have developed a range of software products, provided business analysis & consultancy services and also undertaken a lot of bespoke development work for many clients. It is our vast experience consulting to and developing software for hundreds of small companies that enables us to understand so well the precise needs of a small business. In fact we can often describe to you the problems that you suffer even before you realise that you have them!
In 2006 we were approached by Andrew Damonte from Westenholz Antiques, who was looking for a business management system that controlled customers, stock, invoicing and their website - in one solution. Prior to this, Westenholz data was spread across an Access database, Outlook, many Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Data duplication was rife and management reporting was impossible. To be fair, this was not dissimilar to the highly inefficient way in which many small businesses are run before they 'see the light' and was therefore no great surprise to us. Westenholz had also invested heavily in a new website, but this came with a complex and time-consuming CMS (Content Management System) for updating the website. They wanted something that was easy to use, logical and helped them grow their business. Furthermore, the website did not provide any customer management, marketing features, invoicing, margin scheme calculations or any other functions on which successful businesses rely.
Productive IT, along with a few other software companies were approached and asked to tender for the job. We won the contract on both our enthusiasm and our ingenuity. We suggested ideas that would help Westenholz to be in control of their business rather than being controlled by it. Throughout 2006 and much of 2007, we developed Antiquity.
One question remained unanswered: Why wasn’t similar software available? Surely a computer programme with stock control, including image management, that linked to a website and also took care of mundane tasks such as invoicing, email marketing and general business reporting was not such a tall order? We undertook extensive research and found that there wasn’t anything available for art & antique dealers that provided all these commonly required features in a single solution.
After two years of further development and a thorough beta-testing programme with dealers from across the UK, Antiquity was launched in July 2009 and has now received backing from both BADA and LAPADA. We intend to establish the UK market over the next 12 months and then take Antiquity to the USA.
The Future & Support: Just as important as the software is the support that comes with it. Furthermore, you don't want to invest in a piece of software that might end up out of date. We have therefore put together an extremely well priced package which includes unlimited telephone and e-mail support, updates to the website, updates to the database, web hosting and much more for a small monthly fee (from just £35). We're sure that you'll appreciate that continued development of Antiquity costs us money, as does providing an excellent support service, hosting etc. and that you'll agree our support package provides outstanding value for money.
Feedback As a company, we thrive on your feedback. If you have any suggestions for new features, changes to existing features, find any bugs or anything that just doesn't quite work the way you expected, please let us know!
Productive IT has been developing, selling and supporting software since 1991. Our first product was a business management programme for photographers (The Photographic Organiser) and this is still a market leader today. Over the years we have developed a range of software products, provided business analysis & consultancy services and also undertaken a lot of bespoke development work for many clients. It is our vast experience consulting to and developing software for hundreds of small companies that enables us to understand so well the precise needs of a small business. In fact we can often describe to you the problems that you suffer even before you realise that you have them!
In 2006 we were approached by Andrew Damonte from Westenholz Antiques, who was looking for a business management system that controlled customers, stock, invoicing and their website - in one solution. Prior to this, Westenholz data was spread across an Access database, Outlook, many Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Data duplication was rife and management reporting was impossible. To be fair, this was not dissimilar to the highly inefficient way in which many small businesses are run before they 'see the light' and was therefore no great surprise to us. Westenholz had also invested heavily in a new website, but this came with a complex and time-consuming CMS (Content Management System) for updating the website. They wanted something that was easy to use, logical and helped them grow their business. Furthermore, the website did not provide any customer management, marketing features, invoicing, margin scheme calculations or any other functions on which successful businesses rely.
Productive IT, along with a few other software companies were approached and asked to tender for the job. We won the contract on both our enthusiasm and our ingenuity. We suggested ideas that would help Westenholz to be in control of their business rather than being controlled by it. Throughout 2006 and much of 2007, we developed Antiquity.
One question remained unanswered: Why wasn’t similar software available? Surely a computer programme with stock control, including image management, that linked to a website and also took care of mundane tasks such as invoicing, email marketing and general business reporting was not such a tall order? We undertook extensive research and found that there wasn’t anything available for art & antique dealers that provided all these commonly required features in a single solution.
After two years of further development and a thorough beta-testing programme with dealers from across the UK, Antiquity was launched in July 2009 and has now received backing from both BADA and LAPADA. We intend to establish the UK market over the next 12 months and then take Antiquity to the USA.
The Future & Support: Just as important as the software is the support that comes with it. Furthermore, you don't want to invest in a piece of software that might end up out of date. We have therefore put together an extremely well priced package which includes unlimited telephone and e-mail support, updates to the website, updates to the database, web hosting and much more for a small monthly fee (from just £35). We're sure that you'll appreciate that continued development of Antiquity costs us money, as does providing an excellent support service, hosting etc. and that you'll agree our support package provides outstanding value for money.
Feedback As a company, we thrive on your feedback. If you have any suggestions for new features, changes to existing features, find any bugs or anything that just doesn't quite work the way you expected, please let us know!
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