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POS POINT-OF-SALE RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE For Bookstores WRITTEN BY Martin Francom COPYRIGHT (C) 1989, by DSP, Inc. POS Point-Of-Sale REGISTRATION This is a SHAREWARE copy of POS software which means you may try the software before you buy. If you like what you see you can receive a registered copy of POS software which costs $95.00. The benefits of registering is that you will receive a printed manual, the most recent copy of the software (which has increased inventory and customer account capacities), phone support, and one happy computer programmer. Please direct all inquiries to: DSP, Inc. C/O Martin Francom 2541 Perry Avenue Bremerton, Wa. 98310 ORDER FORM NAME_________________________________________________ COMPANY______________________________________________ ADDRESS______________________________________________ CITY, STATE & ZIP____________________________________ PHONE (_____) _______________________________________ POS REGISTRATION FEE $ 95.00 Washington Residents Add 7.8% _____________ TOTAL ENCLOSED _____________ LIMITED WARRANTY The program is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. DSP, Inc. does not warrant that the functions contained in the program will meet your requirements or that the operations of the program will be uninterrupted or error free. In no event will DSP, Inc. be liable to you for any damages, including ant lost profits, lost savings or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use such program. INTRODUCTION POS is a point-of-sale and invoicing computer program designed to automate a retail bookstore or simular business. POS can print invoices (sales receipts) for customers, handle Paid-Outs, charged sales and received on accounts (anything a cash register normally does and more! Pos can even generate price quotations. The program keeps track of inventory and customer account information. Various reports can be printed, they include daily, monthly, yearly sales reports, inventory re-order reports, inventory on hand reports, fiscal inventory reports, Customer sales reports, Customer activity reports, mailing lables and many more reports. Income is recorded on a daily, monthly, and year-to-date basis. These totals can be printed at any time and have password protection. POS produces many printed reports such as inventory item lists, item below reorder level, customer list, and will print price labels for your inventory and sales receipts. The shareware version of POS can hold 1,000 inventory item ISBN numbers, 500 customer accounts. The registered version can hold 100,000 inventory items and 100,000 customer accounts. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS The following hardware is required to use POS: IBM PC, XT, AT or compatible computer with at least 512K of memory (the registered version requires 640K of memory). MSDOS 2.1 or higher. 1 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. 10 MEG. or higher hard disk drive. (Recommended) (It can be run on a floppy if number of records is small.) 80 column dot matrix printer. (Preferable EPSON compatable) Optional: Star DP-8340 40 column serial receipt printer. RS-232 serial port. Serial cash drawer. INSTALLING POS Point-of-Sale To load POS on to the hard disk drive, insert the program disk that came with this manual into drive A and at the C> prompt type A:INSTALL. This will create a sub directory called POS and copy all the program and data files to your hard drive. All the data files have an extension of .DAT and all index files have the extension .KEY The files on the distribution disk are: POS.EXE the main program POSCNFG.DAT the company & sales info file POSINVN.DAT the inventory data file POSINV1.KEY index file ISBN # POSINV2.KEY index file name POSCUST.DAT the customer data file POSCUST.KEY index file customer name It is important to back up your data on a regular basis. For more information on backing up and restoring data from your hard disk drive, refer to your MSDOS users manual. EVALUATION OF POS Point-Of-Sale To try the POS program you need not load it on your hand drive, it will run from the floppy it is distrubed on. To start the POS change to the drive and directory the program is in and type at the DOS prompt A:> POS and press [ENTER] the program will load You will find the program to be user friendly, a HELP screen is available which will answer your questions about how to use this program. The bottom line of each screen is the command line and will list the command and options available at that time. Because POS Point-Of-Sale program has a help screen and because the program is designed to be very intuitive a step-by-step instructions will not be necessary for you to learn to use POS effiently. I suggest you start the program and "play" with it abit to see what it can do for you. The function keys [F1] to [F9] will (when pressed) activate various modules of the program i.e. [F1] will call the inventory module [F3] will call the customer module [F5] will call the sales module. Pressing [Alt] H will call the help screen. The command line will show you the commands available it looks like: Add Change Delete Find Get || Help [F1] to [F9] Where pressing A will add a new record, pressing C will change the allow you to change the current record, pressing D will delete the current record, pressing F will allow to find a particular record by name, pressing G will get a particular record by ISBN #, the Up and Down Arrows will allow you to step thru the records one record at a time (the record being show in the top portion of the screen is the currently selected record. Pressing H will get you the help screen. Pressing a function key [F1] thru [F9] will take you from one module to another. The shareware version is being supplied with a small customer file and inventory file so you can play with the program with out having to load alot of data first. You may delete or add record as you so desire. The customer file has three required files they are: ! CASH ! PAID-OUT ! RECEIVED ON ACCT you must not delete these as they are required for the sales module to operate correctly. If you have a Shareware version of the program and would like would like to have telephone support or addition written support you can obtain that by sending me $10.00 and your question. I will give you a written reply along with a telephone number you can call to ask me additional questions as they come up. I have been asked to modify the program for other small businesses. This is possible. The cost of modifing the program will vary depen- ding of the complexity of the request. If you have this need please contact me at the above address. 
