About Our Software

A lot of things are the same. It's so similar- that's why we went with Passport Business Solutions ™ . We were comfortable with the program and the program worked for us, so why go through learning something else…pretty simple to just keep using.

One thing was we were used to using the F10 key. This got changed and wasn't in the new tree menu, but now we just open a second screen, which works great. If I'm posting and I want to go check something, I can just go look – works even better than toggling back and forth.

If you don't like change, this is the way to go. So easy – they've made some improvements but you don't have to re-learn the whole thing. It's the easy way to go. Just go into it and you're up and running. It's such a relief.  - Joan Chabot [Brown's Yacht Yard, Inc.]

The heart and soul of our company is in that [RealWorld] database. To be able to extract that into Passport Business Solutions is pretty slick…it does what it should. Our Inventory transferred to the penny. To the penny.

I actually want to thank you for saving my company. I'm as pleased as punch. It's a monumental day. We printed checks and everything works. Life is good. To all the other consultants and accounting people who said we had to go to other products, we're sending them their checks printed from Passport Business Solutions. They're going to say ‘wow, he made a change!'

I can't say enough about what you did. Now I can sleep. We now have a removable hard drive that I take to the bank to keep under lock and key the way we should. Now I can worry about the business of our business – selling valves! - Ken Gossett [Control Enterprises Inc.]

Engineering Management Systems had been running RealWorld since Version 6. We maintain a very large inventory and also have a second, remote location. We were running a Novell server and using a VPN - everything was running on the workstations. RealWorld will run fine on these new machines, but just barely. We would run a long report and it would always lock up. We found a work-around but technology is moving forward. We upgraded to Passport Business Solutions and put everything on a Windows Server 2003, with Windows Terminal Services to minimize processing time.

Passport Business Solutions has sped up our productivity by leaps and bounds! I wish we had done it sooner. It was an easy conversion – very smooth. I like that I can use a mouse if I want to, I can get around the system quickly, and the learning curve is almost zero. I would definitely tell RealWorld users to upgrade to Passport Business Solutions. - John Gilmore [Engineering Management Systems]

We had Unix but we needed to switch to Windows. I just thought everything would get scrambled during the transition so I printed out every report I could think of. It was the middle of the afternoon when we started. I was back on the system by midday the next day. I'm totally amazed. The new system is wonderful! We have three stores and I can just toggle back and forth between them, [and] it basically works the same. If you know RealWorld you will know how the new product functions; but it has lots of new features and additional functions – we're really enjoying them. - Kathy Walters [Truck and Trailer Supplies]

About Our Partners

We had a big question and answer session – to understand what we needed. Gordon Crumal [Pritchard, Crumal. & Schaaf, Inc. in Fresno, CA] quizzed us and we quizzed him. That's what made this go so smoothly - Gordon provided that – he's an expert. Gordon said, ‘This is what I'm going to do and this is what you need to do.' In one day, everything was done. Well, it took about a half a day for the question and answer analysis, so a total of a day and a half to make this change. - Ken Gossett [Control Enterprises Inc.]

Our Passport Partner, Crystal Cassidy [Cassidy Consulting in La Vista NE], is amazing. Her follow-up has been very nice. Anyone can sell you a product and walk away. Crystal has checked in almost every day to see how things are going and to tell me about any new details I might need to know. She is a wonderful person and I would tell anybody who is interested that they should contact Crystal. - Kathy Walters [Truck and Trailer Supplies]

About Our Service

I also did the online class (Passport's free web conference: An Introduction to Passport Business Solutions) that Crystal told me about. It stopped some of the apprehension about getting a new system right at the end of the year. I saw there was no reason to wait. - Kathy Walters [Truck and Trailer Supplies]