Easier Price Look-up & Gift Card Balance

[EST]

Could there be a way to add the option "Look-up" to the main menu of the program, which could give you a way to look up item prices and the balance of gift cards, all without entering a password? You would just have to scan or type the UPC #.

[vxlancin]

Hi
I have created a small program for quick stock lookup
I will post it shortly.It will be used by pressing f4 at menu of pos.
What stock info do u want it to display?
Dale - every time i get it to exit, your pos closes also. Any ideas?

[EST]

Hi
I have created a small program for quick stock lookup
I will post it shortly.It will be used by pressing f4 at menu of pos.
What stock info do u want it to display?
Dale - every time i get it to exit, your pos closes also. Any ideas?

I think it should display the item name, item sku, item price, sale price, actual cost per item, and in-stock amount (inventory).
Or, if that's too much, maybe just do item name, item sku, item price, sale price, and in-stock amount (inventory).

You should be able to key-in or type the sku.

The main menu should say "F4 Look-up," or something like that.

It shouldn't be password protected (for easier look-up) and it should also display giftcard information.
You may need to do a separate script for gift card balance look-up, however!

The main screen should have a place to enter the name or sku of item (either type or scan) and it should pull up the item(s) info or giftcard balance.

I think it's a great idea!

[Andrew]

Your program must not just "exit", it needs to re-run the POS application otherwise DHPOS will not resume.

To do this you place in your POS folder on your hard drive a datafile named NEXTFILE.DAT which contains only the name of the program file you want to run, usually a DOS program (the program should be in the POS folder.) When the other program terminates it must do so by using the command RUN "POS"

Now when you press [F4] the POS program will see if there is a NEXTFILE.DAT file and then read it. It will then place a file on the disk so that POS will know when it restarts to return to the menu rather that starting from the beginning. It then RUNs the other program.

[daleadmin]

I am thinking of a routine to look up a price AND a gift card balance from the main menu. However I do not know when I will get to it.

Andrew is correct. When you press [F4] the POS program will set itself up to return to the menu and then run your program. However your program must not end with the command END but must restart the POS program with the command RUN "POS"

Dale

[EST]

I am thinking of a routine to look up a price AND a gift card balance from the main menu. However I do not know when I will get to it.

Andrew is correct. When you press [F4] the POS program will set itself up to return to the menu and then run your program. However your program must not end with the command END but must restart the POS program with the command RUN "POS"

Dale

Can't wait for you to incorporate that into your program!

[daleadmin]

Well try this http://www.dhpos.com/poslook2.zip

It is only the POS.EXE file, version 6.40m1. Make a backup of your current POS.EXE file first.

You must currently have POS version 6.40M to use this.

From the main menu press [F8] for stock lookup or [F9] for gift card balance.

Try it out, report back.

Dale

[EST]

Well try this http://www.dhpos.com/poslook2.zip

It is only the POS.EXE file, version 6.40m1. Make a backup of your current POS.EXE file first.

You must currently have POS version 6.40M to use this.

From the main menu press [F8] for stock lookup or [F9] for gift card balance.

Try it out, report back.

Dale

I like it!
I wish it would say "inventory" instead of "invent," I got a little confused with that.
I also wish you could add an option to the main menu "10. Product Search" > "1. Stock Search," "2. Gift Card Search."
It would make it easier to find and remember (I would have to write F8=... F9=...)!
When it doesn't find an item I wish it would say "item not available" or something like that...
Other than that, good job so far!!! Hope it will be in v7.0 or sooner...

[daleadmin]

Est,

Take a really close look at the main menu screen. See a place where I can add an extra line? Plus you can select a menu item by pressing on of the number keys, do you see a [10] key on your keyboard?

One of the reasons that you got this feature is that I was able to do it in just 35 lines of code, and I wanted people to stop asking for it. This means there will be no bells and whistles (especially those darn whistles). Think of it as a "Cliff's Notes" version of a feature. It does what it is supposed to do, if you can find it, and no more. So it is what it is going to be, there will be no more, so you can use it now.

But mainly if I get another request for this I can say, "The program already does that, go away.", and that works for me.

And I now return to my regularly scheduled program, i.e. the ticket thing.

Dale

[daleadmin]

Upon further review it seems silly to have a feature if the key needed to access the feature is not listed on the screen. So I have put labels on the bottom corners of the POS main menu. This is version 6.40m2 of the POS.EXE program file at http://www.dhpos.com/poslook2.zip

And this is absolutely the last word on this feature unless it isn't.

Dale

[EST]

Upon further review it seems silly to have a feature if the key needed to access the feature is not listed on the screen. So I have put labels on the bottom corners of the POS main menu. This is version 6.40m2 of the POS.EXE program file at http://www.dhpos.com/poslook2.zip

And this is absolutely the last word on this feature unless it isn't.

Dale

Thank you, that was what I wanted (2nd option).