What is AMAS?

The Antique Mall Accounting System (AMAS) was first installed in Houston in 1985. Since then, our user base has expanded to over 47 states and several Canadian provinces. Our software can be spotted in antique malls, consignment stores, boutiques, flea markets, craft malls, home decor malls, furniture malls, and design centers.

In a nutshell, AMAS was designed to perform these major tasks:

Enter multiple dealer items from multiple dealers on one customer ticket.
Provide dealers a neat detailed settlement report as needed (Monthly, weekly or any period you specify).
Cut Dealer Checks with summary stub.
Provide daily sales activity reports for the mall and as requested by dealers.
Maintain customer lists if desired.
What-sold.com provides online access to daily sales and sales history to your dealers (optional service)

AMAS is better than other accounting or Point-of-Sale Systems:

Pay your dealers in 30 minutes or less
We do not require inventory to be defined. It’s totally optional and most malls don’t do it. You can require valid items numbers for some dealers (such as yourself) and not for others.
We DO NOT REQUIRE FORMS. With the exception of checks, mailing/barcode labels, special forms are not required. You can use almost any standard pre-printed business size/style check.
Customer entry is not required, or may be. It’s up to you. (Customer entry/selection is required for layaway purchases).
Enter multiple dealer items from multiple dealers on one customer ticket.
The ability to deduct commissions, advertising, rent, credit card fees and taxes from the dealer’s settlement check.
Multiple item/dealer layaway sales are no more difficult to enter than a normal sales invoice.
We offer tremendous flexibility within our invoicing and reporting. Our system parameters offer over 200 setup options that allow you to make invoicing and reporting more efficient to your way of operating.
Easily change or delete ANY line item or invoice option up until the invoice is saved. You may still correct line items up until the time the dealer is paid-out for the invoice.
Easily change invoice date now or later on.
Simply reprint any invoice ticket.
You may modify invoices and layaway tickets up until the time the dealer (on the ticket) has been paid. Layaway tickets cannot be modified once a second payment has been entered.
Since the Settlement process can generate hundreds dealer pages, for some malls we have developed procedures where you may process tickets for all or selected dealers, review on the screen before printing, print selected dealer statements, and deduct rent and advertising when & where desired. Our settlement procedures should save hundreds of pages, not to mention the hours it takes to re-print reports when the printer jams before the processing has finished. You may also re-print settlement reports from prior periods.
In case you find errors on settlements after printing checks, you may void settlements and checks, make certain corrections and re-process.
The settlement process is VERY FAST (1-2 minutes on average to process 2000 tickets on a average computer). Settlement report printing times will vary based on your printer’s speed and number of dealers & invoices processed.
You can track dealer rents and advertising and deduct dealer rent balances from their settlement checks if desired (some you may, some you may not).
Easily switch between regular invoices & layaways without having to re-enter anything.
Choose from several different invoice formats to meet your budget, printer or desired image.
Multiple-Tender transactions allow you to accept several forms of payment against a single invoice.
Bar Code scanning – Only if you want.
Interfaces with computer cash drawer, receipt printer and barcode scanner.

We often ask our prospective customers how much time they spend calculating and creating dealer statements each month. Our consensus is that most efficient manual operations spend about 15-20 hours per pay period. Some malls tell us as much as 40 hours per pay period. We seldom see manual operations pay more frequently than once a month. Because our settlement process is so quick and painless, some of our customers pay their dealers weekly.

Depending on the accuracy of your check-out personnel, frequency of miss-tagged items, etc., Settlements should not take more than 1-2 hours of manual intervention per pay period. Misstated items can easily be corrected using the invoice edit option. Dealer rents can (optionally by dealer) be deducted from the settlement report (checks). Any dealer rent balances (rents greater than net sales) remain in the rental system and may be cleared with Rent Payment Transaction or held over till the next settlement.