Our support policies

Choose from the following options for support from SumWare Consulting - free, pre-paid or pay-as-you-go.

Support Contracts

Support contracts are available on a pre-pay basis, and start at $450+GST (education) or $550+GST (business) annually. Customise your contract to suit your requirements. The support contract can be used for the following:

training (up to 4.5 hours excluding travel costs) or
phone support (up to 6.5 hours, by appointment) for the library or your tech staff or
remote connections or
Software updates or
on site callouts (excludes travel costs)

You can combine parts of the above list together and you don't have to specify in advance what options you want. So, for example, a year's support might consist of 2 x 1.5 hours of remote training plus 2 1/3 hours of phone support with remote connections. Another year might be used for an Athenaeum upgrade with a 45 minute remote training session and 2 hours of telephone support.

The support must be used in the year and may not be carried over to the next year. Support Contracts may not be used for 3rd party expenses, such as bar code labels, bar code scanners, FileMaker software, etc.

Paid and Pre-Paid Telephone Support

Ad hoc telephone support is available for those without support contracts and is billed in 15 minute blocks. The education rate is $25+GST per block (i.e. $100+GST per block), our commercial rate is $30+GST per block (i.e $120+GST).

Remote Access to your computers

Remote support is available at our standard hourly rates.

If your network is appropriately configured and you have broadband, we can remotely connect to your computers via TeamViewer, VNC, Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, Apple Remote Desktop, LogMeIn - if you give us permission!

Try TeamViewer first - usually the easiest option

Download the following application(s) for your operating system and run under instruction from SumWare Consulting. These applications allow us to securely connect to your computer and provide remote assistance.

Download the Windows Quick Support Application to your desktop.

Download the Mac Quick Support Application to your computer.

E-mail support

Limited e-mail support is available at this address. Mail us your queries and we will try to respond promptly. Since 1996, e-mail support has been at no charge and we plan to continue that tradition. However, we reserve the right to change that status at any time for excessive or lengthy support situations.

In conjunction with e-mail support, we may email you QuickTime movies of various screens showing how to perform certain tasks. If your computer is not configured to play QuickTime movies, you can download and install Quicktime for free from Apple's web site.

On Site Training

SumWare Consulting can also provide training. Call us to find out our session and travel rates. Or organise a group training sessions for significant savings to you.

Documentation

Documentation, when commissioned for custom work or included with our packaged products is provided electronically in Adobe Acrobat format. You have license to print as many copies of the documentation as you like.

Upload your files

If you have real problems, you can always copy your Athenaeum Pro or Light files to a CD-ROM or USB stick and send it to us. Or, you can upload a zipped copy of your files directly to our servers. We will have a quick look at the files and help you decide where to go from there. We do reserve the right to limit this support or charge an appropriate time based fee (though we will let you know after we have looked at the files, of course).

On Site Callouts

Chargable by the hour on-site support. Travel charges may apply.