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[bigrossco]

I downloaded the pos system (http://keyhut.com/pos.htm) and I am having only 1 problem, when I update the Description in a transaction, it shows fine but then when I go into VOID it dose not show the correct description i.e. i change the description "Monitor" to "17 TFT" in the trasnaction, complete the transaction and then go into VOID it still shws it as "Monitor" and not "17 TFT"

Any help would be most gratefull.

version 6.39f

[Dale Harris]

bigrossco,

When you change the description during a sale the new description is only printed on the receipt.

When the sale is saved into the file of previous sales the descriptions are not saved to conserve space. This file can already be over 20 megabytes and saving the descriptions would double that.

Instead, when you look up a previous sale using the "Void" feature the program uses the stock number to look up the current description for each item.

[Dukane]

This is also a good feature since if you change stock numbers to different products, then the old product will still be there.

For example, if I had stock number #30 as GATORADE and then change #30 to MILK. If someone bought a Gatorade, and you tried to enter that transaction you would think I was returning milk!

[Dale Harris]

This is a reason why reusing the same stock number for a different product would be a REALLY BAD IDEA!

[Andrew]

This is a reason why reusing the same stock number for a different product would be a REALLY BAD IDEA!

Hence we have 13,000 possible stock table slots :p

[daleadmin]

Actually you have 1 X 10^13 possible stock numbers. But you can only use 13,000 different ones at the same time

[IAN]

uhh does anyone have 10,000 items or even near that!

[Andrew]

uhh does anyone have 10,000 items or even near that!

Well I'm not 100% sure - but when we increased the stock table from 5000 (pretty sure it was 5000, seems so long ago lol) to 13,000 some complained that still wasn't enough - so maybe there are some users out there.

[IAN]

not even a supermarket i guess as that just has more facings of the same product


o well

[daleadmin]

Some types of stores that would have more than 13,000 different items would be grocery stores, hardware stores, and book stores.