If, to use a less-than-desirable vernacular, there were an "idiot-proof" mode, that would be helpful. It might be something like "the paperclip guy" in Microsoft Word. When you don't know how to do something, there are some prompts. There are some help features in Astound, but they're a little less intuitive. As a church, we don't employ a typical IT person, so it would help if they could set up a more user-friendly layman's type of profile and settings, where everything is simplified into layman's terms. For example, it could say, "Turn internet speed up for guest use," or "Turn it down," or "Turn it off," or "Reset it." This is not even a complaint, it's just that this field is beyond me, in my industry.
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If, to use a less-than-desirable vernacular, there were an "idiot-proof" mode, that would be helpful. It might be something like "the paperclip guy" in Microsoft Word. When you don't know how to do something, there are some prompts. There are some help features in Astound, but they're a little less intuitive. As a church, we don't employ a typical IT person, so it would help if they could set up a more user-friendly layman's type of profile and settings, where everything is simplified into layman's terms. For example, it could say, "Turn internet speed up for guest use," or "Turn it down," or "Turn it off," or "Reset it." This is not even a complaint, it's just that this field is beyond me, in my industry.
As a new customer opening our first worship center, I would have liked for Astound to provide examples of products other churches use.