Personal Touch Systems History

Dry Cleaning Software History

2011

Release of ProfitMaker Plus 6.2

2010

Release of ProfitMaker Plus 6

2009

Release of ProfitMaker Plus 5.1 using SQL2005

2007

Demonstrated ProfitMaker Plus 5 at Clean Show '07: Demonstrated all of the new features of ProfitMaker Plus.

2005

Displayed ProfitMaker PLUS at the Clean '05 show in Orlando. ProfitMaker Plus is the 1st program written to use the SQL2005 database and introduces new and significant features for drycleaners.

2003

Released ProfitMaker 2003 version 3.4 Last release of ProfitMaker before ProfitMaker Plus.

1998

Converted ProfitMaker to run on the Windows 98 Platform.

1996

Displayed ProfitMaker at the California Cleaner Assoc. convention in Long Beach to rave reviews. (It was interesting how at that convention all of our competitors warned against the use of Windows for their systems saying that MSDos was the only way to go. Boy was the competiion wrong, as we all know today).

1995

Designed and developed ProfitMaker for drycleaners. The first Windows based, picture oriented software for drycleaners.

1991

Debut of SPOT at Clean '91 show in Las Vegas. Later that year, sold SPOT and Foto-Trak to Westgate Software.

1989

Developed Foto-Trak for photo processing tacking.

1987

Selling EVA (Electronic Video Automation) and sold it to the Albertson's, Dans, Reams, and many other food store chains. It is still in use in over 1000 stores nationwide.

1985

Started development of new video store rental point-of-sale using C++ and Btrieve. Target OS was MSDOS

1983

Incorporated company and began development of a Video Rental point-of-sale program - QuikFlick. Written in C and ran in the MSDOS environment under the newly released program from Microsoft.

1981

Developed the Check-A-Rate system that calculated the best shipping costs for freight being shipped via common carrier, UPS, and others.

1979

First system design using DRDOS operating system for a medical application using a touch screen. System only had 2 floppy drives of 1.2 meg each for storage which was a lot in 1979. DRDos was the operating system and was developed by Digital Research, the "Microsoft" of the 70's.

About ProfitMaker Support

Why do we charge you for our help? It's simple. We have light, power, and tax bills just like your business does. The first year you own our ProfitMaker system you get free telephone support. After the first year we have to charge you for support so we can afford to have someone here to answer the phone. Our computer experts demand a paycheck every week even when no one calls in for help. So, that $74 per quarter fee is a very small price to pay to have someone here to answer the phone IF you need help answering a question about ProfitMaker.

Why can't we help you for FREE for as long as you own ProfitMaker? It's the same reason you, as a Drycleaner, can't charge one time to dryclean a pair of pants and then do it for free everytime they bring in the pants thereafter. Your customers would love it, but you would soon be out of business. Likewise, we count on our customer base to pitch in with our small, reasonable charges for support.