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Purpose

This user guide will introduce you to vGallery features and help you to get up and running. The online version will be supplemented by video tutorials.

Note : Screen captures were realized under Mac OS X, but remain valid for Windows.

vGallery overview (version 2.0 and higher)

vGallery is a powerful and easy to use software, designed to fulfill multiple tasks related to the activity of an art gallery using one single program.

Composition (modules list)

• Address Book
• create contact sheets
• create and export mailing lists
• mail management with archiving
• print letters, labels and envelopes
• import and export to and from other programs (Word, Excel, etc.)
• custom print templates
• Artists
• create artist sheets
• Works
• artworks management (paintings, photographs, videos...)
• print pages, catalogs and certificates of authenticity
• custom print templates
• resize images
• Books
• books management
• stock management
• Events
• create events (fairs, exhibitions or simply create a list of works)
• print labels or price lists
• custom print templates
• Invoicing
• creat bills of sale, commission, to have or pro forma
• custom print templates
• Press
• management press releases
• support documents (zip, pdf, Microsoft Word documents...)
• Reports
• reports grouped by artworks, books, consignors, purchasers and invoices
• export statistics to Excel and PDF * (* FileMaker required)
• print
• Archive
• create archives of mail from the Address Book module

Main features

• Works management and classification
• Print price lists, labels, certificates of authenticity, etc.
• Generate invoices
• Contacts management (mail and mailshots, printing of letters, labels, envelopes, etc.)
• Events management
• Export data in several file formats
• Password secured access to data
• Sharing over the internet (FileMaker Pro 12 or FileMaker Server 12 required)

Terminology

If there is terminology that you do not understand, see glossary at the end of this manual.