Greetings All,

Lor After many years at the helm of KRS Club, Lauren has moved on to new ventures, allowing her to focus more on her lovely young family.

I'm pleased to have re-joined the Club team after many years away on other projects. This edition of our newsletter is full of all the exciting new changes that your Club team has for you.

We have grown the development team that supports the package, and welcome Richard Woodburne as our Sales and Support Manager.

KRS Club 5.1.1.3 is shipping now. This version integrates the Contract and Debtor applications into one, adding convenience for moving between your Members details and the Debtors system.

The Collections features have been enhanced and further automated, Debit Orders and Levies are improved, and we have added a basic Management Dashboard to highlight important information.

We will be upgrading all our clubs who qualify for free upgrades through their support contracts - contact Club Support to schedule your upgrade now!

We also welcome five new clubs to the fold - read about them here.

Yours in fitness,
Lorraine

	New look for KRS Club

		Integrated Contracts & Debtors KRS Club has always shipped as two applications: Contracts and Debtors. The rationale was that different staff require different functionality, but we find that in our smaller clubs the roles are not that defined, and it makes sense to integrate the functionality.
	You can still control access to functions through our very comprehensive Rights mechanism. A user can be allowed access or denied permission on each screen and function individually. This means there is no risk in integrating the Debtors functionality with Contracts - you control your user rights per staff member. Collections / Handovers We wrote about our enhanced Collections process in the last newsletter, so this is just a reminder that you will find it much quicker to group bad payers for batch Collection actions. Support and Backups A number of Clubs forget to do regular backups. Yet this is your key financial data - why put it at risk? KRS Club now enforces a pre-monthend backup, and we hope you find this useful. We're certainly sleeping a bit sounder now... Support is also controlled entirely through clubsupport@krs.co.za. Please DO NOT email the individual team members, as we would hate you to be ignored if the person you have addressed is on leave, or sick. The Club Support address is accessed by the full team, so you're guaranteed a response! We look forward to upgrading all our Clubs over the next few months, at your convenience. Email Sales at KRS Club if you're keen to get the upgrade asap.

	Featured: MBS Lifestyle, Hout Bay

MBS Lifestyle Centre is situated near the Hout Bay beachfront, nestled at the foot of Chapmans Peak.

MBS focus on the combination of healthy mind, body and soul through personally understanding each of their members.

Some fantastic offerings from MBS are:

1. Weight loss with Herbalife.

2. Programs for all ages of adults, including seniors: pilates, swimming and aqua aerobics, spinning, core work, yoga etc.

3. Highly qualified instructors.

4. Outdoor beach and obstacle course training using the gorgeous Hout Bay beach and Chappies mountain.

View Club web site.

	Get With It!

			Top Fitness Trends in 2012 The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has identified the top 20 trends for 2012. Top of the list are educated and experienced fitness professionals, through accreditation programs. Zumba (dance fitness) makes the top 10 for the first time, and is rising rapidly in popularity. Programs for seniors (active ageing), and on the opposite end, programs for children (11 to 15 years) are top focus areas for 2012. Read more here >>

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			Big Brother Bracelet? A colorful wristband called the Up has been announced - a deceptively simple thing that tracks your eating, sleeping and exercise habits. Sound like Science fiction to you? Read more >>

			Excel: Days in Month A simple trick for calculating those pesky dates. Read more >>

KRS is running a Software Internship in January for new graduates with C# or Java.

It's a 6-week program where interns will learn Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD), Domain Driven Design (DDD), databases and much more.

Interns will be paid a stipend, plus get our fabulous catered lunches (free).

If you know any bright youngsters who have their IT qualifications are are looking for a break into software, email your CV to jobs@krs.co.za

Club News

November 2011
Velocity in Hout Bay is opening now for pre-sales. Velocity is using our fingerprint biometrics to control access. And Mustang Gym in Parow is also opening for Christmas using KRS Club.

October 2011
New clubs for the month are: Health Avenue in King Williams Town, LaVita in Polokwane and Zest for Life in Boksburg.

September 2011
Version 5.1 has finally launched, and was installed at Fit Stop (head-office and their branches in Randburg and Randfontein) and Taylors in Stellenbosch.

July 2011
We've been very busy testing version 5.1. Also helping all our new Clubs get through their first few month-ends, and doing lots of demo's - KRS Club is definitely the package of choice for the South African gym market.

May 2011
Installations in St Georges in Cape Town, and Fit 4 All in Durban. Call us jetsetters, but we love travelling all over our great country to meet new clubs!

Greetings All,

New look for KRS Club

Integrated Contracts & Debtors

Collections / Handovers

Support and Backups

Featured: MBS Lifestyle, Hout Bay

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