fergie35
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It's not just agriculture that deals with lots of different product lines.
There are hundreds of eccommerce packages that can receive a CSV file from a manufacture, and 'import' it daily to updates prices. Millions of eccommerce outfits do exactly that, triaging the fact that many of the importers and distributors are utterly useless at online marketing and customer service.
Many are just 'drop shippers', passing the order back to the supplier to be fulfilled, leaving the customer none the wiser.
Ibcos Gold might package it all up into an easy to buy package but it's certainly not irreplaceable.
Card purchase commission is a bit of a pain but in reality it's beans and certainly less than the cost of borrowing money to lend to customers in the form of credit accounts.
The thing with Gold is it does all the accounts, payroll, commission structures, wholegoods, parts, CRM, serial number stocking, workshop control including barcode scanning on and off jobs, tablet control for technicians in the field to schedule their own jobs and complete jobs etc, hire fleet management, workshop scheduler, marketing suite etc... all in one package, hence the cost and reluctance of any dealer looking to move to any other way of doing it, and probably 98% of all main dealerships use it and have been for 20 odd years, the archive and history of information stored in it is vast. It is a credible system proven without gremlins and works. I'm sure if a credible alternative that can do it all come along, people will look at it. As said earlier there is only a small audience for such software so the prices are going to go up for it now down sadly.
To add to @Cowabunga thoughts on DOS, there is a windows version, but that costs even more and has higher server requirements from what I can gather, we do have some users on it at work.