We are proud to announce our first gate interface with DKS Doorking.  This feature is now available.  For our existing customers, there will be the standard $99 upgrade to have this new feature.  New customers, as always, will get this feature for free.

     What's the number one compliment from our clients: ease-of-use.  Our software is very easy to use.  Normally with just two clicks of the mouse, you can manage almost all aspects of running a self storage business.  

This page is broken into two sections:  Features & Benefits and what our software does not do.

Features & Benefits

Tredd's Self Storage Software is powerful...
If you use a computer for work or for entertainment, Tredd's Self Storage Software is easily learned.  If you have limited computer experience, Tredd's Self Storage Software is easy enough for the computer novice.  Why? Because you can:

• Point and click interface makes moving around the software a breeze
• Simply Internet archiving to our data warehouse.  With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can send a copy of your database to our secure internet data warehouse.  This protects your data incase of a computer crash.  This is a free service to assist our customers. 
• Zip code lookup for quickly inputting a customer address
• Accept partial or full payments for any month
• 2 clicks of the mouse and you are ready to rent any unit, view customer information, print letters, or view customer historical trends
• 2 clicks of the mouse and you can print late letters for all customers
• View 18 reports including income, deposit, late list, status list by unit size, and much more.  Plus we can add custom reports for your business if needed.  Click here for a detailed explanation of each report.
• Automatic or manual database backup
• Graphical display of unit stats
• Graphical display of your site
• Update unit information simply by viewing that unit and typing in new information
• Set your late day in the options screen, and whenever an rented unit is not paid by that day, that unit will automatically turn red on the building display.  No more guessing on what units are late
• Late fees can be configured several ways:
  • No late fees
  • One Late fee per month
  • Two late fees per month
  • Three late fees per month
  • Four late fees per month
  • No matter how late, only charge one late fee
  • Keep adding a new late fee(s) every month late
  • Late fee can be a percentage of rent
  • Late fee can be a flat rate
  • Late fees can be a amount-per-day, i.e. dollar-a-day
  • For multiple unit renters, late fees can be limited to the first unit or one late fee per all units rented.
  • New late fees options added per request 
• and a lot more...

Impressive, isn't it? Have a good look at these features again, because you are likely to find them in one of the next versions of our competitors, who are trying hard to match Tredd's Self Storage Software's really easy-to-use interface.  Tredd's Self Storage started as a 32-bit Windows application, not as a DOS program that had to be updated like many of our competitors.

Tredd's Self Storage Software replaces the standard
It is becoming a nightmare for self storage owners and managers to make their peg board systems or paper only systems work with the ever expanding industry.  Using Tredd's Self Storage Software, you know exactly what units are vacant, what units are paid to date, what units are late, what units are locked out,  and what units are damaged.  And above all, it saves you valuable time when tracking your units.  Every employee, whether computer literate or not, will be able to use this software.

Sophisticated and speedy access
Although full featured, the software is still incredibly fast.  Our software uses Microsoft's Access Database to store your customer information, which means you can quickly move from building to building, viewing all units in the buildings which are color coded to match their current status.  

Tredd's Self Storage Software is secure
Tredd's Self Storage Software features a password protected Microsoft Access Database.  All records and entries in our software is stored in this single database.  This also makes backing up a breeze, since you only have to backup one file to store all your transactions and history.

Tredd's Self Storage Software is extremely small and very fast
Our software runs on older PCs; a 486 is sufficient. Do you know what that really means? The best possible protection of your computer investment. Which can be a really a big issue when it's a home PC or, if you are in a corporation with hundreds and thousands of PCs.  Using Tredd's Self Storage Software translates into saving thousands on upgrade costs.  Our software runs on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003.  Our two requirements for a PC to use our software are one of the previous operating systems and a screen resolution of at least 800x600.

Tredd's Self Storage Software is your product
Hundreds of customer suggestions have found their way directly into Tredd's Self Storage Software. We are very keen to get your input on Tredd's Self Storage Software, because we are developing it for you - the self storage owner or manager.  Many developers attempt to write software packages without the direct input of their clients.  We have spoken to 100's of self storage owners who told us what they needed in a software package.

Tredd's Self Storage Software is ideal for disabled users
Using Tredd's Self Storage Software as a disabled user means being able to access the software quickly and efficiently. Tredd's Self Storage Software makes it possible to navigate entirely with the keyboard bringing joy and happiness to many visually or physically disabled friends all over the world that other software vendors have ignored.  And for our color blind or color deficient customers, you can change the colors of the unit statuses to any color you wish.  So if you have a little trouble telling green and red apart, just make them another color.  This is what sets us apart from our competitors. 

Tredd's Self Storage Software is flexible
Tredd's Self Storage Software can be tailor-made to suit your company's needs.  If your company needs a custom report, specialized graphics, or other custom needs, we will try to fulfill all your needs.  We cannot guarantee every special customization can be accomplished, but we will be honest with you about the price and time frame.

Tredd's Self Storage Software is simple
Installation is a breeze and takes less than a five minute on most computers.  It doesn't eat up your hard disk space either. Requirements are about 35MB on a Windows XP machine.

But there is more:

• Tredd's Self Storage Software is written from scratch and is not based on a prior release in DOS or other outdated operating system.
• Designed for Windows 95 and has been upgraded to work with all current versions of Windows Operating Systems including Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/2003
• Uses Microsoft's Access Database with password protection.
• Two levels of access.  One for the owner and one for your employees.
• and much more...

Tredd's Self Storage Software loves small computers
Tredd's Self Storage Software runs quite happily on a 486!  We recommend a Pentium based system, but it is not necessary.  If your computer can run a 32bit Windows Operating System, then you can run this software.

Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/2003
We are compatible with any 32bit version of Windows including Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/2003.

Very flexible user interface
Choose whether to show the toolbar or the status bar. If you don't need it, why show it?

System administrators' dream
There are two levels of access: administrator and user.  The administrator has full access to the database and all functionality of the software.  User access has limited access dealing with unit renting, accepting payments, vacating units, and view customer information, but no access to reports or the database.  

Tredd's Self Storage Software - What it does not do

Most software vendors do not point out their shortcomings.  We disagree with that.  Our software is priced on the fact we do not have all these features.  If you do need these features, there are other companies out there with thousand dollar packages that probably do everything you want.  We feel that the consumer should know exactly what the software can do or not do, so here is a list of items that Tredd's Self Storage Software does not feature:

• Automatic credit card billing - this is being planned, no release date has been set.
• Accounting Package - No plans to add in the near future.
• User graphic customization - most of our customers see this as a plus, they would rather have us customize the graphics, but some would like to see this option to allow the customers to change the graphics.  No plans to add and probably never will.
• Anniversary Billing - This feature has been added.  Even though once you start using a management software package it is easier to use same-day billing, clients with a large customer base want anniversary billing.
• Option to email billing statements - this feature has been added!
• Accounting interface - This feature has been added!  You can now export transaction data into a Quicken QIF file format for importing into many accounting packages.

Tredd's Self Storage is celebrating our 10th year of producing quality software for the self storage industry with our latest release 6.9.1 on 24 Feb 2008.  Check out the What's New to read about the 50+ new features we added in the past year to our software including Point-Of-Sale interface, partial refund capabilities, fixed the annoying 603 error, as well as added the Euro sign for our European customers.