BLS or Perfect Secretary ?

[Zenda61]

I will be a new league secretary and am trying to decide whether to use BLS or Perfect Secretary.

I would appreciate anyone's input.

Thank you,
Zenda61

[Frank Goebel]

I doubt you'll see much about our competitor unless some former user of their software responds here. But many of us could comment on what we really like about BLS and the other products CDE offers.

At the very least, we have these message boards and users can interact with each other with solutions, ideas, suggestions, and much more. Answers could come from CDE employees, but also from other users who are actually using BLS week-to-week in their leagues and have their experiences on which to rely.

At centers, the standings sheets I've seen posted just look nicer and more inviting when done in BLS, where others look like an expanded spreadsheet. This is just my opinion.

Beyond that, in BLS there is no limit to the size of your league, nor for any number of leagues. Only your hard drive would limit how much you can do. And, BLS uploads to the free LeagueSecretary.com website (which stores backup copies of your league, which have saved me in emergencies in the past).

I will let others describe other attributes that BLS offers. Naturally, we hope you would choose BLS.

[Kerry Federer]

When I first started looking for bowling software (a loooonnng time ago, still back in the DOS days), I compared the programs that were there and the features and options that they said they had. At that time, BLS had more features and more options than any others out there. It has expanded tremendously since that time.
BLS is very complete. Almost any form, any report that you need, BLS can handle and in many different formats (pdf, png, xml, etc.). It even has some areas that export data in case you want to do different things with the bowling data.

[Bob Lanouette]

Like Kerry, I've been using bowling software since the old DOS days. Along the way, I've experimented with Perfect Secretary. In addition to the features that Kerry menitioned, BLS's supreme strength is its customize-ability. You can design any report you could ever wish for with this program. I have bunch of custom reports that I use to to extract info for our youth leagues and for our local and state youth association. Perfect secretary is nowhere near as flexible, in my opinion.