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Hi

I was wondering if there is anyway of entering multibuy offers? As I am opening a new shop on the 08-08-05 and I have many special multibuy deals on items. For example, 8 cans for £5, normally 79p each and Buy one get one free.

I have around 30 items that are under offer and these are to change every few weeks. It would be awkward to discount the items each time, thats if I remember before the customer tells me.

Another way I thought of was to create a simple stock codes and have each offer under different codes, so stock code=101 - 8 cans for £5.
But doing this wont deduct the inventory.

Anyone overcome this? Or know a way round it?

Also Ive noticed that when I scan an item in, the software makes a long beep (lasts 1-2 secs) before showing the item. Is there anyway to remove this beep and speed up the process?
Running 2 terminals, 1 also acting a server (AMD 1.2Ghz, 160MB Ram, XP)
Surely its not the hardware? Or is there a setting that is slowing it down alittle?

Any help greatly appreciated

Thanks

The "multibuys" or "auto discounts" idea has been kicked around for a loooonnnggg time. Unfortunately it just isn't possible with the current DHPOS stocktable, it is designed to track what stock you have and what you don't - period.

With the various kinds of sales people setup - it could be a logistical programming nightmare for Dale, even more frustrating than your sales staff making the discounts manually. Unfortunately - there isn't much option open to you.

A simple solution that springs to mind:
- setup these two items in your stock table: - for sales of 8 cans, use the 101 stock code
- at the end of the day, use the reports feature to find out how many of stock code 101 sold
- multiply the number of stock code 101 sold, by 8 - to get the number of total cans sold
- ring up a sale using stock code 100, for the total number of cans sold, change the price to 0.00 (to avoid doubling sales figures)


Your long beep is most likely caused by running DHPOS on XP - because DOS in XP is not real, it's emulated - it often lags and doesn't respond quickly. It's a sad fact of life and the direction computers and operating systems are going.

The best platform to run DHPOS on, if you want to use the computer for other tasks would most likely be Windows 98SE.

The problem with "deals" is that it is too open ended. Here are some of the deals that people have asked me to impliment...

Buy 2 get $?.?? off
Buy 3 get ??% off
Buy 5 get one free
Buy "A" get ??% off "B"
Buy "A" and "B" get "C" free
Buy "A" or "B" and get $?.?? off "C"

and more, and more, and more. What a nightmare.

On the beep thing, if you have "key press beep" set to "YES" setting it to "NO" may help.

Yep the key press beep is already set to NO.

Ive also got DHPOS setup on my pc at home just to test and learn on and that is also running XP SP2 (same as the tills at the shop) but that does not make the long beep nor it takes as long. Checked all settings and they seem to be the same.

But what I will try is copying the DHPOS folder from the shop and try it at home. See if its something to do with the database.

I'll keep you posted.

Forgot to login.

Hi

On the first day of the shops opening, the softwares given up

The users disconnected the extra terminal and found that the server had just froze in DHPOS on a grey screen. Restarted server, but whenever you run DHPOS it shows the welcome screen DHPOS then after pressing a key it goes to a grey screen and nothing happens.

I made a backup the day before (luckily) but we did add more items after the backup.

Is there anyway to get this sorted or anyone come across this before?
Also is it possible to export the stock file to a csv file?

thanks

Zed,

I am assuming that on the server that you have also entered the correct PATH into the "Network" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program and while there you have designated it as the GLOBAL folder.

To learn how to import / export the stock table as a .CSV file read this http://keyhut.com/postip6a.htm#export