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NOTE: The download files no longer have an .EX extension because renaming the extension from .EX to .EXE has proved to be way beyond the capabilities of some users. However when you click on the icon to download the file if you choose [RUN] instead of [SAVE] you will put dozens of files all over your desktop and be really unhappy. For the 64 bit Windows users there is a download .ZIP file since the .EXE files will not extract under 64 bit.
BUG FIXES
There was a problem with the PURCHASE.EXE program when used over a network, it would loose the header information and you would have to retype them.
When you loaded a sale into the “5. Voids” feature and the sale had a discount it would be off by a few pennies.
Plus the usual this and that.
NEW FEATURES
REMOTE.EXE
There has been an enhancement to the REMOTE.EXE program. This program allows you to sit in an office and watch on the screen as sales are being rung up on networked computers. The screen has 6 windows so you can monitor 6 registers in real time.
The problem was if you had more than 6 registers. To change the registers you are monitoring you had to exit the program, restart it, then type in a new PATH.
Now you can store up to 15 PATHs and when you want to change the setup press [ESC] to assign a new path to one of the windows. You do not have to type it in or exit the program then restart..
REC2CSV.EXE
A bunch of folks are not satisfied with the reports that DHPOS provides nor with the data that can be generated from DHPOS to create their own reports.
The new REC2CSV.EXE program will allow you to use the data from past transactions (the stuff you see in the “5. VOIDS” feature which is stored in the .REC file) to write a comma delimited data file that could be loaded into any spreadsheet program.
Only those transactions that are still in the file (if you are saving a file) will be written. So if you are only storing 100 transactions then this program can only write the last 100 transactions to the .CSV file. ALL transactions will be written in the range you choose, including OPEN, CLOSE, and NO SALE. Most all information in each transaction will be written.
Why would you want to do this? Well loading it into a spreadsheet program is not really that useful. However it will give you access to the data if you wish to write your own software to handle the data for whatever nefarious purpose you have in mind. This will require that you can write software or know someone that can. Some labels will be included in the file to help you parse the information.
You can write all transactions currently in the file, or you can choose to write only part of the file using the following options…
1. You can write only from the last transaction rung up to a previous date.
2. You can write only from the last transaction rung up to a particular transaction number.
3. You can write only those transactions that occurred on a specific date.
4. You can write only a specific transaction.
Just remember that you cannot write transactions that are no longer in the file. If you are saving only 100 transactions, and the last transaction rung up was 5000, then transaction 4898 is not in the .REC file and cannot be written to the .CSV file.
Text data may not contain quote marks ("). Before being written to the .CSV file all quotes will be changed to an apostrophe. Text data may contain commas.
This program is [F4] compliant. This means that if you know how you can program the main POS program to launch this program from the main menu of the POS program by pressing [F4]. Then when this program is finished you will be returned to the main menu of the POS program.
YOU SAVED
In the “Discount” feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program is a new text box at the bottom of the screen. If you enter some text in this box the receipts will have a “You saved” line but using the text you typed in. This line will appear just below the list of items you sold and will post the total of all reductions (not discounts) in the sale. Like this…
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STOCK NUMBER DESCRIPTION PRICE
60004 COLOR KEY ONE SIDED
T2 1 at 2.99ea 2.99
60008 BRASS KEY ONE SIDED
T1 2 at 2.59ea 5.18
-88888 ALL ABOVE REDUCED 10%
T0 1 at -.82ea -0.82
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3 YOU SAVED -0.82
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SUB TOTAL 7.35
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Now for the new features in 7.04j.
Alternate prices
If on the setup screen for the stock table you set “Use SALE PRICE as ALTERNATE PRICE” to “YES” then you can use the sale price as a second price for each item. Now when you are ringing up a sale, at the center left of the screen will be a color strip that will either say “[F4] REGULAR PRICES” or “[F4] ALTERNATE PRICES”, press [F4] to toggle between the two. When the strip says REGULAR then the program will charge the regular price. When the strip says ALTERNATE you will charge the sale (alternate) price. This allows you to have one set of prices for regular customers and special prices for other customers.
You can press [F4] as many times as you wish during a sale so that you can decide to charge the regular or sale price for individual items in the same sale. The [F4] setting will stick until you press it again so make sure at the beginning of the next sale that it is set to what you want.
For both sale prices or alternate prices if the price is 0.00 then the regular price will be charged. This means that if the regular price and the sale / alternate price are the same you can leave the sale / alternate price set to 0.00.
Zero quantities in inventory reports.
Now when you make an inventory report you can choose to have include those items that have an inventory of zero.
Download from http://keyhut.com/pos3.htm after making backups.
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