NEWS & EVENTS

NEWS

Harms Software has been in business since 1987. Constant growth and staff enhancement has truly made them the household name in the beauty industry. Their culture and rich history demonstrates why thousands of clients continue to rely on them and their industry expertise every day.

2009

October 2009
New website launches to announce 4 new editions of Millennium Software

As you may have noticed, our website has undergone quite a change. This has been done in conjuction with us announcing that we have rebranded the traditional Millennium software into four new bundled editions that each provide the perfect combination of software and add-on's for their respective industries. Click

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SpaSalon Edition

MedSpa Edition
HealthFitness Edition
SpaFolio Edition

September 2009
First UK User Group Conference

2009 saw the first User Group Conference to be held outside of the USA. It was held at the Oxford Belfry Hotel, in Frome, Oxfordshire. The two day business conference was attended by Millennium Software users from all across the UK and ROI and included several industry specialists including Susie Santiago, founder of the Santi Santi Programme.

2008

December 2008
Millennium Software Ensures Highest Security For All Millennium Clients
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Harms Software, creators of Millennium Software, is in the process of becoming PA-DSS compliant and expects to be certified by the end of December 2008. PA-DSS compliancy is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security when processing credit cards. The PCI Security Standards Council, including American Express, Discover, Visa and MasterCard, develops these requirements and so it is critical to keep up with the ongoing regulations.

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August 2008
M2SYS Technology Innovative Fingerprint Biometrics Solution Chosen by Millennium Software
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M2SYS Technology, an award-winning fingerprint biometrics research and development firm, announced today that Harms Software, a leading provider of management software to the spa and salon industry, has agreed to begin providing M2SYS fingerprint readers and software to their customers worldwide.

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March 2008
The Mystery of Business is Revealed at Millennium User Group Conference 2008
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Kicking off on July 20th, the Millennium Annual User Group Conference will continue to unite hundreds of people from around the world to network, learn and have a good time.

The conference will run from Sunday, July 20th through Tuesday, July 22nd at The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona. Harms Software Inc., creators of Millennium, is expecting to exceed 600 registrants for this event. Millennium users can register & get a feel for the conference by going to www.millenniumugc.com...

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February 2008
Strategies runs on Millennium Software
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The team at Strategies dedicates its time and resources to helping salons and spas run their businesses more successfully. When Neil Ducoff, founder and CEO of Strategies, looked at how to make over his own company, he found that a solution he recommends to his customers works for his own business, as well. As a result, Strategies is now powered by Millennium by Harms Software, Inc...

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2007

October 2007
Harms Software selected by largest Massage Clinic Franchise in the USA, Massage Envy
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IBM was involved in the project management and architecture selection and found Millennium and Millennium Central Office’s design to be superior and a perfect fit for Massage Envy. 300 of their national locations went live on October 29th with 30-50 clinics a month opening on Millennium for the next several years for a total of approximately 1200 clinics.

August 2007
Harms Software Inc. celebrates its 20 year Anniversary
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Harms Software Inc. is celebrating its 20–year anniversary by awarding Millennium 2008 to all current Millennium users at no charge. The announcement was made by John Harms at the Harms User Group conference in late July 2007 in Miami, Florida. The 2008 version of Millennium was a 2 year development project that was projected to bring in $1 Million dollars in revenue this year. Millennium 2008 will be released in November 2007.

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August 2007
Harms software releases DVD training Series branded Millennium Essentials
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Harms Software Inc. may have relieved some of the angst that business owners experience in training new staff in an industry with high front-desk turnover. The set of 10 DVD’s is geared to educate Millennium users on all aspects of the software, anywhere at any time.

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July 2007
Harms Software Inc. Annual User Group Conference Rocks the House in Miami, Florida
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Competition. Team. Success; is the theme that united 500 Millennium users at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami, Florida. The conference ended as John Harms said “forget about competition, TEAM = SUCCESS.”

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2006

December 2006
Millennium voted “2006 Favorite Spa Software” by American Spa Magazine readers!

January 2006
Harms Software becomes the FIRST and ONLY software company in the industry to become Microsoft GOLD Certified.

2005

January 2005
Harms Software establishes U.K. Millennium distributor.

2004

August 2004
Millennium 2005 and Millennium.NET 2005 are released with a full conversion from previous additions.

2003

August 2003
Harms Software is certified for the Micros/Fidelio Hotel Interface.

June 2003
Harms Software is recognized for the third year in a row as a Microsoft Certified Partner.

February 2003
Harms Software establishes a Millennium New Zealand distributor.

January 2003
New editions of Millennium released to cater to different size businesses

2002

January 2002
Harms Software initiates a 1-year Money back Guarantee branded “365 Guarantee”. They are the first and only software company in the industry to do this.

2001

August 2001
Harms Software implements a new gift card system.

August 2001
Harms Software accepted into Microsoft’s Certified Partner Program.

2000

January 2000
Harms Software releases its 5-year secret, a complete re-write of Salon Solutions in the latest 32-bit Windows Technology and calls it Millennium.

1999

January 1999
Harms Software is the first to bring automated confirmations to the beauty industry.

1998

January 1998
Emiliani Enterprises becomes east coast Salon Solutions distributor.

1997

January 1997
Harms Software produces their first informational video and begins advertising their flagship product Salon Solutions in all major trade magazines.

1996

January 1996
The 3.0 version of Salon Solutions is released on CD-ROM with paging capability tied into appointment book events.

1994

January 1994
New Salon Solutions appointment book rocks the industry.

1991

January 1991
John Harms is proud to release Salon Solutions for Windows.

1989

January 1989
Harms Software responds to growing popularity and expands Salon Solutions beyond NJ to the tri-state area (PA, NJ & NY).

1988

January 1988
Harms Software releases version 1.0 of Salon Solutions.

1987

March 1987
John Harms begins the development of Salon Solutions, version 1.0 in MS-DOS.

January 1987
Harms Software was founded by John Harms.