This is the desktop version of the software. Here you can input, edit and manage your data, search and book, enter and manage your customers (and profile them and request fulfilment items), run reports, export data, manage your membership/advertisers, control synchronisation, find and refine lists of records for exporting or mail-merging and directly access the web-based services.

Data Manager and Property Manager are the content management tools in Counterpoint. They are more than just tools to describe items. This is also where you group, theme and scheme your records. It’s how you take the knowledge you have about your destination and put it into your data. Of course, you can tag records with facilities (ensuite, children welcome) and attributes (near the motorway, on the waterfront) and of course the system automatically applies a national grid reference for GIS searching. But you can also create purely arbitrary areas that may not exist in real geographical terms, and tag your providers into these areas. You can create endless themes - walking, cycling, golf of course, but what about Roman Holiday (Bedfordshire CC) or Wild Pursuits (Mid Wales) - into which you can put any item that has relevance. Schemes are another tool, typically used for providers who are involved in more clearly defined arrangements: First Stop York (GNER and York Tourism), Penrith Hotel Network (Eden DC). And there is a further mechanism for Special Offers, which can be opted in and out of by providers via touchtone and over the web).

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