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Price-it, The Electronic Price List
Copyright 1994, All rights reserved
by
Datasolv Technologies
#111, 615 Colborne Street
New Westminster, B.C., Canada V3L 2E1
Fax # 604-521-6795, Internet:73551,1054 at Compuserve
datasolv@haven.uniserve.com
The watch words these days are "speed" and "simplicity", and every business is
looking at how to reduce cycle times. In today's competitive marketplace, new
and creative ways of offering a service to customers are harder to come by. Price
is usually the bottom line. Can you offer some other way of making your product
attractively priced?.....the answer is YES, with Price-it Pro!
System Requirements:
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IBM PC/AT or compatible computer, VGA 640 x 480 resolution,
650k of hard disk space, mouse optional.
License Agreement
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Please read the terms and conditions at the end of this
document before using this software.
Dealer inquires are welcome.
Installing Price-it, The Electronic Price List :
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The Price-it installer will create a directory called "priceit" on the drive
of your choice and copy the required files to it.
1. Type INSTALL from the drive/directory where the Price-it
files currently reside.
2. Follow the instructions on your screen.
The "Price-it" demo files
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PRICEIT.EXE....... program file
PRICEIT.FRS....... resource file
PREFRNCE.CRD...... configuration data
DATA.DBF.......... sample price list data
API_1.BBX......... resource file
API_1.FRS......... resource file
VGA.DEV........... screen driver
README.TXT........ this document
ORDER.TXT......... order form
Starting Price-it:
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Type the following from within the "priceit" directory:
PRICEIT
The first screen introduces you to the Price-it versions currently available.
The following screen will display your company logo(Price-it Pro version).
Next, the sample database will automatically load and display the first page
of price data to the screen. To navigate the price data, simply type the letter
"n" or click the mouse on the "Next" button to advance one page, type "p" or
click the mouse on the "Previous" button to display the previous page.
Navigating Price-it, The Electronic Price List:
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Price-it is designed for ease-of-use, mouse support combined with "one-touch"
keyboard support makes Price-it very fast to use whether the keyboard or mouse
is being used. The "ESC" key works on all screens to back out, including "Exit to
DOS". Arrow, page-up and page-down keys will advance the price list to the next
or previous page. Typing the highlighted letter of the button will perform the
selected task. Mouse users simply "click" away!
Searching the active price list:
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By typing "s" or clicking on the search button, a pop-up window will display
three types of search engines:
1. Search for a part number
Enter a partial/full part number in the box provided, hit the "enter" key
and Price-it will display the first part number that matches the criteria.
2. Part number search and Browse
Enter a partial/full part number in the box provided, hit the "enter key"
and Price-it will advance to the first match and allow you to browse from
that point.
3. Keyword "description" search
Enter from 1-40 characters which best describes what part of the
description you are searching for in the box provided, hit the "enter" key
and Price-it will display matches only, in a browse mode.
Using a "mark-up" factor:
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While viewing prices, you may at any time over-ride the selling price to create
a new selling price for the current session. Using this feature does not effect
the selling price stored in the data file.
At the main viewing screen, type "m" or click the mouse on the mark-up button,
enter a desired mark-up factor
eg. to mark the cost up by 50%, type 1.50 in the box provided.
hit the enter key and the prices displayed on screen will adjust to the new
mark-up factor you have entered. Price-it will continue to mark-up the cost
by the mark-up factor you have entered until you either change the mark-up
factor or exit the program. To store a default mark-up factor to be used
whenever Price-it is started, see the next section.
Configuring the default preferences:
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While at the main screen, type "c" or click the mouse on the configure button.
A pop-up window will display the default settings Price-it uses to manage the
diplay of price data to the screen.
"Use a constant mark-up? y/n"
Inserting a "y" here will tell Price-it to multiply the cost by the mark-up
factor and display the new value in the "sell" column. The sell price stored
in the data file will not be altered by using this feature.
Inserting an "n" will tell Price-it to use the sell price stored in the
price data file.
"Use mark-up factor of ____"
Enter the default mark-up factor in the box provided. Price-it will mark-up
the cost by the number you have entered in this box when you have
chosen "y" to "Use a constant mark-up?".
eg. to mark the cost up by 25%, type 1.25 in the box provided.
*** NOTE *******************************************************************
You may at any time while viewing prices, override the default sell price
by chosing "mark-up" from the main screen and enter a new factor which will
stay in effect until you either change the factor or exit the program.
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"Display constant mark-up factor? y/n"
Insert a "y" here to display the current mark-up factor being used to the
screen (bottom right corner).
Entering an "n" here will tell Price-it not to display this information.
*** HINT *******************************************************************
By not displaying the mark-up factor or the cost price, your customer may
view the price list without sensitive data being displayed.
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"Insert dash in part number? y/n"
Enter a "y" here to insert a dash in the part number.
Entering an "n" will disable this feature.
"Insert dash at position _____"
If using the insert dash feature, enter the position in the box provided.
"Display cost? y/n"
Enter a "y" here to display the cost price to the screen.
Entering an "n" will keep Price-it from displaying the cost to the screen.
"Initialize screen saver when _____ minutes of activity detected"
Enter the time of inactivity from the keyboard/mouse, when the screen saver
should interupt Price-it, blank the screen and display a message. Enter a "0"
to disable the screen saver.
"Screen saver message ___________________ "
Enter your choice of screen saver message here.
License Agreement
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Upon use of Price-it The Electronic Price List, Datasolv Technologies (DT),
will in no event be liable for damages, whether incidental, consequential or
otherwise arising from product deficiencies or errors in content. THIS
CONSTITUTES DT's SOLE WARRANTY AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND YOU
WAIVE ALL OTHER WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATIONS
WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. This agreement may not be modified. This agreement shall be governed
by the laws of the province of British Columbia, Canada.