Space Manager for Windows^TM

FAQs

No. 7: Does your software allow for “what if” models with alternative rate structures and/or alternative occupancy models?

YES.

The program allows for authorized users to increase prices on a “what-if” basis.

This global price update systems allows new rates to be entered either for units (price comes into effect when the units is next rented) or contracts. The user can enter new rates as fixed amounts or percentage increases for all or only part of a site (or other sites if allowed and multi-site) . These “what-if” price changes can then be infinitely varied until the desired result is achieved. Potential rate changes can then, individually or globally, either be activated, whereby each increase is given an activation date (the date the actual price increase will occur), or cancelled.

In addition, once activated, all or any waiting price changes can subsequently be cleared or amended by an authorized user.

The Global Price Increase system is accessed from the Maintenance Menu and allows the user to select to globally update Unit or Contract Prices. This screen shot shows the Unit price update system where the user can test ‘Proposed’ price increases before activating them and making them ‘Actual’.

However, what-if models are not just limited to using the actual price increase system. If other models are required whether to analyse price increases, trends or occupancy models, the Space Manager reports system is available.

Reports within Space Manager are not ‘hard coded’. This means that they can be tailored, in-house if required, to provide any analysis of the data stored by Space Manager. A Report could be written not only to analyze any of the data stored by the program, but to introduce an infinite number of assumptions allowing for the production of complex models and predictions.

With the extremely powerful combination of Sybase SQL and Report Builder, almost anything is possible, and it is all provided within the program.

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