200 LINES IN A SALE
In the last new version of this program the maximum number of lines in a stock table was increased from 13,000 to 26,000. This version increases the maximum number of lines in a sale from 60 to 200. This will require some effort on your part.
If you are upgrading a current register MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT FOLDER!!! This is a one way conversion, you cannot go back if things go seriously wrong. Of course you can go back by restoring the folder from the backup but this only works if you made a backup. Have I scared you? Good!
If you are running this on a network you must upgrade each LOCAL register and the GLOBAL register. Upgrade and run this program on the GLOBAL register first.
After downloading and unzipping the download file, run the POS program, if you are using Sale Recording to be able to use the “5. Void” feature to recall past transactions or you are using Sale Parking, you will end up in a screen that will ask you if you want to convert the program to either 60 or 200 lines max. You must pick one even if you want to stay at 60 lines. This is because the conversion process will also enable other new features. Remember that you must do this on all registers on your network.
That’s about it. Have fun with your new toy.
If at any time you want to switch the program from 60 to 200 lines or from 200 to 60 lines run the RECONVRT.EXE program. All new registers will be created with a 60 line maximum, you must use RECONVRT.EXE to convert to 200 lines.
The advantages of 200 lines are obvious, why would you want 60 lines. The answer is disk space. With 10,000 past transactions saved the old .REC file required 20 megabytes. With 60 lines the new .REC file requires 42 megabytes (for the new features.) 200 lines requires 120 megabytes of storage which is fine if you have a newer computer with gigabytes of unused space, not so swell if you have an older computer with a 100 meg. hard drive.
Note: If you switch from 200 to 60 obviously you are going to lose something. That something will be the data in lines 61 to 200 of each sale, not a problem if no sale used more than 60 lines. While the line data will be gone the sale totals will be correct.
WARNING! If you want to change both the maximum number of lines in a sale and the number of transactions to be recorded, change the number of lines first.
So if you have a grocery store you can now ring up to 200 lines in one sale from a stock of 26,000 different items. I got your emails, go bother someone else for a while. : )
STICKY DESCRIPTIONS
In the past, if you allowed the clerk to change the description of an item the new description would only be printed on the receipt and the journal. If you used the “5. Void” feature to recall the sale (and reprint it) it would come up with the original description. This is no longer true. Descriptions are now permanent and will stick with the sale. Note: the new descriptions will stick to the sale, they will not be changed in the stock table.
NOTES
Since descriptions are now “sticky” they can have new uses. During a sale you can hold down [CTRL] and press [F12]. This will cause a text box to pop-up. If you type in a note of up to 210 characters (take that Twitter) and press [ENTER] the note will be reformatted into 24 character lines and will be inserted into the next descriptions of a sale. The text box is 70 characters wide by 3 lines. Don’t worry about splitting a word at the end of a line, just keep typing, the program will reformat the text. Here is a sample receipt with a note…
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TRAN ASSOCIATE TIME
9509 1 DALE 14:44
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STOCK NUMBER DESCRIPTION PRICE
60000 COLOR KEY ONE SIDED
T1 1 at 2.79ea. 2.79
69862 PERSONALI FREE KEY
T1 1 at 0.00ea. 0.00
60002 BRASS KEY TWO SIDED
T1 1 at 2.99ea. 2.99
***THE FOLLOWING ITEMS
ARE OUT OF STOCK AND
WILL BE BACK ORDERED.
YOU WILL BE CALLED WHEN
THE MERCHANDISE ARRIVES.
YOUR PHONE IS (773)
555-5555***
69301 5/8" X 7' LOCKING CABLE
T1 1 at 67.00ea. 67.00
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4
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SUB TOTAL 72.78
TAX1 at 9.750% 7.10
SALES TAX 7.10
TOTAL 79.88
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CASH TENDERED 79.88
CHANGE DUE 0.00
You will probably have a bunch of standard notes that you do not want to retype every time you want to stick it into a receipt. Since I feel the same way the program will allow you to save and recall up to 10 notes. When the text box is on the screen hold down [ALT] and press a function key from [F1] to [F10] to save the current note. Hold down [CTRL] and press the same [F?] key to get the note back. Notes are saved on the server so they will be shared over the network. You can also use the [CTRL] + [F?] thing from the sales screen to load a note without opening the text box.
WARNING: If you try to load a note using an [F?] key that was not used to save a note, you will load whatever is on your hard drive at that location at that time. This could cause weird things to happen and I have been too afraid to try it. You can try it if you want to and afterwards if your nurse will allow you to make a phone call you can tell me what happened. To prevent this you may want to open the text box, hold down [ALT] and press the [F1] to [F10] keys one at a time to save a blank note to each slot.
For all you folks that wanted a way to attach a note to a return explaining why the merchandise was returned you are now going to have to find another reason to send me emails. Since you cannot change a transaction using the “5. Void” screen, you will not be able to attach a note to a void. Tough cheese. If I can think of a simple way to do this I might add it sometime in the far distant future. Until then try not having voids.
APRINT6
Jon has created a new version of the aprint program, APRINT6.EXE. It has a completely new interface and will do new stuff.
It also replaces the CDK.EXE program. That program is required to open a serial cash drawer if you use serial options 3 or 6. This means that if you use serial options 3 or 6 that you will have to run APRINT6 even if you do not use APRINT6 for printing. On the other hand you will not need to run 2 programs for opening the serial cash drawer and printing.
APRINT6 will print to networked printers.
The first time you start APRINT6.EXE there will be two buttons at the top of the window labeled “Set receipt printer” and “Set report printer.” To the right of each button it will say “No printer selected”, you will have to select a printer. When you click a button a list of printers will be shown, pick the printer you want. Next you will be shown a list of fixed-width fonts. Pick the font you want and the size you want to print. You can also pick bold and italic if you want really weird receipts. If you are using an actual receipt printer the font and font size you pick may have no effect, the printer will use its own font and size.
However if you are printing to a normal computer printer you will get what you pick. The size is important, if you pick too large a size your receipts may not fit on a page. If you have picked the wrong printer, font, or size just press the button to pick again. Now to the right of the button it will list the printer, font, and size you picked, “bold” or “italic” will not be listed.
Normally receipts and reports are printed to the same printer so you will not need to click the “Set report printer” button. However if you have a second printer attached to this computer and you go to the “Reports” feature of this program you can set up this program to print to two different printers. You will then have to press the “Set report printer” button.
NOTE: Any printer that prints directly to a parallel printer port or a serial port does not have to be setup in the APRINT6 program unless you need to print through the printer driver.
For APRINT6 to work you must start it before you start any of the other Cash Register programs. it must still be running while the other Cash Register programs are running. You must choose the correct printer and that printer must be ready to print. The Cash Register program must be set to send printer data the FILE port, and you cannot close APRINT6 until after you have closed the Cash Register program. To close the APRINT6.EXE program, return to the APRINT6.EXE window and press [X].
PRINT 99 LINES
For those of you using A4 paper or 8.5” x 14 paper (or a really small font size on 8.5” X 11” paper) using a PAGE printer you can now set the program to print up to 99 lines on a page.
TWO KITCHENS
You can now run 2 separate kitchen terminals. For example, one in the kitchen and another in the bar. Each kitchen terminal will only receive the data for that kitchen. The food goes only to the kitchen and the drinks go only to the bar.
You set this up the same way as you did before in the “Kitchen” feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program. Tell the program the range of categories that are to be sent. Only now there are 2 sets of categories, one set for Kitchen #1 and another for Kitchen #2.
When you start the actual KITCHEN.EXE program, from the “Welcome to Kitchen Viewer” screen press [F1] to go to the setup. Near the bottom of the setup will be the parameter of “Is this Kitchen #1 or Kitchen #2” Set the one you want for this terminal.
BUG FIXES
In the THEATER.EXE program the first time you entered the info for a new venue some of the information would not save. It would save when you entered it the second time. I thought I fixed this a while back, you can imagine my surprise.
Was not giving you the correct "remaining gift card value" on receipts
Would not properly load .CSV stock table into clipboard if rounding was set to 1 or more.
Program would die when trying to load .CSV stock table into clipboard if CSV file had more than 15,000 lines.
Figures on wrong line on report "A" when saved as a data file
Warn if inventory is zero on specific lines in the stock table settings would only go up to 13,000.
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