FishWare was designed in 2009 in cooperation
with Lodge Owner Larry Johnson and Office
Manager Susan King of Soaring
Eagle Lodge, Navajo Dam, NM. Soaring Eagle
Lodge is a year round lodge with 13 Rooms, a
Conference Room, Fly Shop and Dining area providing guided
drift boat and wade fly fishing trips to anglers
on the San Juan River in northwest New Mexico.
At the time Aspire got involved with Soaring Eagle
Lodge, a quality accounting solution had already
been established by Caralee
Valdez of Sun Dog Consulting, Albuquerque,
NM. Initially, a QuickBooks financial package was
installed to manage Bookkeeping, Payroll and Guest
Invoicing. Later, QuickBooks POS was added to add
capabilities for managing Guest Invoicing, Credit
Card Processing and Fly Shop purchases. As a high quality Bookkeeping, Payroll, Credit Card
processing and Guest invoicing solution was already
in place, FishWare was designed to compliment the
quality accounting solution rather than to replace
it.
The focus of FishWare was to provide an intuitive
means of managing the other business critical
aspects of a Fishing Lodge - Guest Lodging
Reservations, Meals, Fishing Guide Assignments,
Fishing Venues and Staff Work Schedules. To do
this, a multiuser relational database product was
developed with intuitive Calander based information
as opposed to less user friendly traditional
database forms. The calendar format is natural and
easy for users, the multiuser/multi work
station format allows staff at different work
stations to view and edit the necessary data.
After several successful years with FishWare, I
asked Owner Larry Johnson and Office Manager Susan
King what the most important features of FishWare
were to them. Their answers are below.
Lodge Owner 2001-2017, Larry
Johnson
- Huge Cost Savings on Office Management Staff
time and Account Record Keeping
- Huge increase in Booking Security by getting
it right the first time - No mistakes on Guides,
Rooms, Meals, etc.
- We receive deposits earlier and quicker
because of FishWare
- We close on Bookings faster and are able to
insure that for the Larger Groups, all is in
order
- The most important thing is that FishWare
makes money and enhances our 'Cash' flow
Office Manager, Susan King
- Entering a FishWare reservation gives
you control of the clients' Lodging, Meals,
Fishing Venue, Guide Assignment and
schedules Housekeeping
- FishWare enables emailing of upcoming
work schedules for Fishing Guides and Lodge
Staff
- FishWare makes it easy to move or change
an existing reservation
- FishWare provides a 'Big Picture' of
view critical lodge operations with 8
calendars at the click of a button
- The multiuser nature of FishWare with
multiple client workstations allows all
staff to view and edit FishWare data keeping
everyone from Owners, Office Staff, Guides,
Chefs and Housekeepers aware of what is
going on so that no one drops the ball
- FishWare provides informative reports on
'history', which was impossible to keep
track of before
In May of 2017 Soaring Eagle Lodge was sold to
Mike Lyons and Jeff & Alicia Massey.
If you want to talk to previous Lodge Owner Larry Johnson
contact Aspire for details. Susan King is
still the Office Manager and you can contact her
at 505-632-3721. Please
call at appropriate times, usually during the
day - they have a lodge to run!
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