Crystal

Score7.1 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Crystal?

Crystal, launched in 2020 by co-founders Michael Razny and Joel Steinbaugh, is a cloud-based inventory, point-of-sale, and jewelry store management platform. It aims to displace generic retail point solutions and antiquated jewelry management software owners have struggled with for decades.

Crystal gives independent jewelers inventory management capabilities with custom attributes linked between transactions, clients and accounts.

The iOS app brings a full-featured experience to any smartphone or tablet allowing entire jewelry stores to find inventory faster, communicate better, and win more business from customers and vendors.

From single location independent jewelers to multi-location regional brands, Crystal provides a seamless user experience with fully customizable role-based permission management. It allows every employee to find the information necessary to do their job while keeping customer data completely safe and secure.

Crystal supports the day-to-day operations of companies including Polacheck’s, Material Good, Henne, David Gardners, Date & Time, Walter's & Hogsett, and others.

Categories & Use Cases

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General Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As our company bought another company, their applications was presented with Crystal Report, having dealt with the application few years ago, this brought some memories, we are using to process and present data that is being processes by our lending applications, it is taking data from several database such MySql and SQL Server, External parties, etc. Crystal report are involved in several of our business processes 1. Data initiation 2. Data Checking 3. Credit Checking 4. Loan Scoring 5. Collection 6. Non Performing Loan analysis Every process is resulting a daily report that we consolidate, while on a monthly basis this is the report format we are sending to the government
Our business dashboard is also built on top of Crystal report

Pros

Consolidate data from several data sources
Low to no code report generation
Configurable

Cons

This is bound for Windows OS, hard to find similar alternative on other OSs
Be careful in Indexing your data, as it will consume resources

Most Important Features

Multiple data sources, by far this is the most important one
Relatively easy / low code report and dashboard generation
Tailored solution for business process

Return on Investment

Without the application, our lending business will be in complete stop, as our applications are wrote in Windows based
We are processing 300 Loans/Month, taking it as $10000 per loan, having this not working properly will cost potential $150.000 revenue