"In the past, the traditional art of sewing was passed down from mother to daughter from generation to generation. Today, things are different. In the last 50 years, the availability of affordable and well-designed clothing reduced the need for home sewing and with it,the overall understanding of this once-necessary skill. But now, people from all walks of life see sewing as an opportunity to move beyond the cookie-cutter approach to fashion, and express their own personal style and creativity in the clothes they wear every day. Sewnow! fashion studio was created to empower people to design and create these fashions. You can learn how the professionals design, traditional sewing skills and commercial assembly techniques. Combining these three makes creating your own clothing
fast and easy!"
Sewnow! fashion studio is an exciting new retail destination focused on fashion design and sewing. Providing a designer studio workspace equipped with the latest technology, allowing you to design, embroider, and sew anything you could imagine, they support their clientele with expert advice, instruction, and materials. Not only selling retail items such as sewing machines, accessories, and kits, sewnow! also offers classes, workshops, and camps.
"Our goal was to create a high-tech, modern environment for something that is considered "old fashioned". We wanted our POS system to enhance the look and feel of our studio - a modern Mac OS X based system was a perfect fit. Since we started our business with expansion in mind, we wanted a system that could grow with us and help us automate our systems and processes".
"We routinely take deposits for course registration and LightSpeed lets us see at a glance how many customers still have to pay the balance. Then we can use the email function to remind them to call or send their payments. Exporting our data from LightSpeed to our NAS server and right into QuickBooks makes it easy to complete the accounting process and reconcile with credit card deposits."
Description of Business
Sewnow! offers sewing lessons, camps, specialty workshops, custom embroidered gifts, and a variety of other services
Number of Employees
5
When did you start using LightSpeed?
The day we opened our doors in December 2006.
Reasons for Choosing LightSpeed
To enhance the look and feel of our brand. Also, LightSpeed's ability to help us expand, grow, and automate our systems and processes.
Favorite LightSpeed Features
Inventory Management, QuickBooks Integration, Employee Timesheets
LightSpeed Features Used The Most
Because our products are courses, workshops, and summer camps, we use the inventory feature to see how much space is left in each course. To track our employee hours and for payroll, we use theTimesheets feature, and print out sales reports to generate our class student lists.
How Does LightSpeed Accelerate Your Business?
LightSpeed lets us quickly respond to customer inquiries by seeing how many students are registered for each course.
Would you recommend LightSpeed to other Small Businesses and why?
We would strongly recommend that any small business looking for a POS system consider LightSpeed - it is a high quality product with a complete feature set and most importantly to us, Xsilva is extremely responsive to it's customers - adding requested features very quickly and rolling out updates with a very smooth installation process.