Services to Auctioneers...

Gryphon are not simply developers of the excellent AIMS Back Office system but can design and manage your web site, supply and install your PCs and network and provide on-line remote technical support.  We try to provide a total IT solution.  Our service is ideal for auctioneers starting their business, auctioneers upgrading from a manual system or auctioneers who need to upgrade from old DOS based systems.

NEW! - Back Office Management Service

If you hold sales infrequently, we can even come and manage the back-office for you, releasing your staff to concentrate on the sale.  We can send two experienced staff to manage the computer/s, enter sale price details into the system, print the sales invoices and handle the queries.  Prices depend on where you hold your sales and over how many days they run. 

NEW! - Valuation Manager

Gryphon have also developed the Valuation Manager, a stand a lone software package for recording and printing Insurance and Probate Valuations.  Simple to use, Valuation Manager can be installed on a laptop computer and taken to site to enter the items, then brought back to the office to print the valuations.  If the clients subsequently wants to sell the lots at auction the lots and vendor details can be imported into AIMS, eliminating a need for retyping.

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Our Products

AIMS Lite - a basic version for small Fine Art auctioneers

AIMS Standard - full system designed for Fine Arts Auctioneers

AIMS Commercial - designed for Commercial Auctioneers

Valuation Manager

Saleroom Manager
(add-on to AIMS)

• Introduction to AIMS

• Key Benefits

• Feature Highlights

• Minimum Requirements

• Screen Shots

• AIMS Lite

AIMS - Standard Edition
(Fine Arts & Commercial)

Introduction

Gryphon Auctions Systems is the developer and publisher of the Auctioneers Information Management System (AIMS), the modern, back office software solution for auctioneers of all types and sizes.

One of the most cost effective and efficient back office solutions for busy auctioneers, AIMS has a proven track record of success in auction houses of all sizes.  No auctioneer works in totally the same way and so AIMS is very flexible, enabling most auctioneers to use it straight from the box.  However, it can also be customised to each auctioneer's particular requirements. 

AIMS was custom designed with the needs of both small and large auctioneers in mind. EASY to use, EASY to learn, AIMS is a powerful package, ideally suited to those upgrading from manual or old DOS based systems.

Initially produced for a small general and fine art auctioneer based in Clevedon, just south of Bristol, it has been progressively developed to meet the needs of ALL types of auctioneer,  including Fine Art, commercial and agricultural auctioneers.

There are now three versions:-

• Fine Art - for Fine Art and General auctioneers (suitable for those on the VAT Margin Scheme).  Ideal for name based sales and Registered buyer sales (where buyers retain the same number for each sale)

• Commercial - for commercial auctioneers who register buyers at each sale

• AIMS Lite - for the small auctioneer with a limited budget (revised for 2006)

Do you run a network?

You do not have to run AIMS across a network, it will work on a stand-alone PC,  but if you do AIMS networking capabilities are particularly strong!

The auctioneer can enter buyer details and sale prices into a PC or Laptop on the rostrum and the the buyer's invoice can  then be printed in the office within seconds of the hammer falling.  Wireless networking technology greatly simplifies this approach because salerooms no longer have to be wired up for networking.

This approach reduces queues at the cash desk, speeding up performance and improving the service for customers.  It also reduces the need for runners or porters to shuttle sheets from the auctioneer to the cash desk, enabling them to concentrate on helping customers.

AIMS will run on any  PC running Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP or any Windows NT/2000/2003 network.  The latest version is also optimised for Tablet PCs.

Not only can we supply AIMS but we can also provide a complete 'Turnkey' solution, supplying and installing the necessary PCs, printers etc., AIMS software and training in one convenient package. 

Key Benefits

• Affordable - No expensive on-going licensing fees

• Comprehensive, will help manage every aspect of running an Auction Sale, e.g.. producing the Sale Catalogue and Rostrum Schedule, Purchaser Invoices, Unpaid Buyer Statements, Vendor Statements and Financial reports

• Links to Microsoft Excel, Word and Publisher

• Multi-sale - enables detailed analysis of all previous sales, including vendors, buyers and lots.

• Easy to learn - simple to use

• Web friendly - Enables you to publish your sale catalogues to the Web easily and with the minimum of fuss

• Fully Networkable - will run on Windows 95,  98, ME, 2000, XP and Windows NT/2000/2003 networks

• Fully supported

Feature Highlights

Working with the Internet....

We believe that one of the biggest challenges to auctioneers is to widen the buyer pool, i.e. the number of people who buy at sales.  One way of doing this is to make the catalogue available to a far wider range of buyers, both nationally and internationally. 

We are, therefore, developing AIMS with the Internet very much in mind.  In particular we want to simplify getting your sale catalogue onto the web (making it easy to access and to use) and ease the management of on-line commission bids etc. 

This Sample Electronic Catalogue is a fairly basic example of what we can do.  The catalogue and pictures can be uploaded very easily and quickly from your own PC with little or no knowledge of the web.

We design and manage web sites for a number of our AIMS users.  Our approach is to design simple, fast loading pages which encourage users to come back time after time - visit http://www.clevedon-salerooms.com to see what we can do..

Minimum Hardware/Software Requirement

AIMS is written using Microsoft Access 2000/XP, the industry leading database program for PCs.  The minimum hardware requirement is generally the same as for Microsoft Office.  As with all database software, AIMS runs best on a fast PC with plenty of memory, the more the merrier. 

Minimum Hardware Requirement:

Pentium III 500hz PC with 256Mb of RAM  running Windows 95 or better.  Microsoft Access 2000 or better.  

Recommend Hardware Requirement:

Pentium 4 Class PC with 512Mb of RAM and a 40gb hard drive with Microsoft Access XP/2003

AIMS will run on a 10base network but will benefit from the increased data through-put of a 10/100/1000 based network.  AIMS will also run very successfully on a Wireless Network.

Whilst AIMS can be supplied as a stand-a-lone product you will benefit from greatly improved functionality if you install Microsoft Office 2000/XP Professional on your PCs.

One client,  an Agricultural Auctioneer, frequently runs  sales very successfully in a field using two elderly networked laptop computers and a HP 6P laser printer, all propped up on a very shaky table in a cramped and extremely elderly caravan - often in the pouring rain. 

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Gryphon Auction Systems is part of Gryphon Computer Support Ltd, a growing provider of technical support services to small and medium sized companies in the Bristol and North Somerset area.  Specialists in all aspects of PC use we think of ourselves as the Small Businesses Computer Department, providing all the IT related services small and medium sized businesses need.  We also custom design database applications in Microsoft Access and design and maintain Web Pages.