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VERSION 1.28 p.1 of 7
5/26/1993
****** Evaluatation Version *******
(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.
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Hello,
This is the information & registration file on the program
CJPOS. CJPOS was created by Christopher J. Ryba to provide
an EXTREMELY user friendly point-of-sale program for my friend
Christopher Kilcoyne ; owner of Brookpark Certified Automotive
Service in Parma, Ohio. He wanted a program to print receipts
and save estimates at his shop. What evolved from simple
beginnings in August of 1992 is rather complete package for any
small business who can dedicate a CGA or VGA IBM compatible computer
with DOS 3.0 or higher to point of sale operation. Any printer
that can do EPSON emulation will work to print receipts
(most printers do).
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** OPERATION ***
In the Receipt Menu is included a screen saver to prevent monitor
burnout. The F1 to F12 keys are struck to bring up different
departments. For BCAS of Parma these departments are Labor
(F1 is Labor, unless specified otherwise during setup), F2 is Exhaust,
F3 is Emmisions, F4 is Brakes, F5 is Shocks & Struts, F6 is Springs,
and so on to F12 for Miscellaneous. After pressing one of these F keys
a window pops up with various part discriptions. For example, at BCAS
pressing F2 brings up the Exhaust Department with parts such as
mufflers, pipes, hangers, clamps, etc. Using the cursor keys moves
a selection box to a part description. Say we chose Mufflers, now
striking the Enter key replaces the first window with a second window
listing the part numbers under that part description. For our example,
we choose #1811G of Mufflers by using the cursor keys again to move
the selection box. This exact part number for Mufflers has the price
to go with it. Finally the quantity is prompted at the bottom of the
window; the default value is 1.
For the Labor department( F1 ), canned descriptions of labor are
loaded in with their hour quantity. These descriptions can be added
to. The appropiate labor rate is then selected.
The beauty of CJPOS is that it is a "build on the fly" program in
which a user can add part, part number, & labor descriptions as
they're needed. Moving the cursor box to any line with "****" will
allow putting a new item into the appropiate window. A total of 70,400
unique part numbers can be loaded into the program in this manner for
departments F2 thru F12. If a labor type is not specified this
theoretical maximum rises to 76,800. A total of 39 "canned" labor
descriptions can loaded into the Labor department (F1).
(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.
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OPERATION CONTINUED ...
When a receipt is ready, it can be saved as an estimate, or finalized
as sold to Cash, Check, Visa/MC, Discover, American Express, or
Accounts Receivable. Also Line items can be deleted or changed if an
incorrect entry occured. Customer names & information are prompted
before the end of a sale. This information can retrieved if a
sale re-occurs to the same customer at a later date by providing 1 to
3 letters of the last name.
Back to the main menu, several other choices are presented. Daily
sales can be viewed and expenses entered. A daily printout sheet
of these items is provided. Also the products sold for the day and
any variable period can be tallied, viewed, printed, or output to a
Lotus type ASCII delimited text file for a spreedsheet program.
Inventory of part numbers is tracked and quantities altered in the
Inventory subprogram. A printout of loaded part numbers can done for
every department; a cost sum of positive inventory counts is included.
The Accounting subprogram allows for adjustment to any sales figures.
The program saves receipts in an ASCII text format that can be viewed
like this file.
JUST ADDED .........
Those wonderful UPC barcodes can now be read by CJPOS using a wedge
type reader. If you want a pen type reader one is availble from
Cuyahoga Computing for $ 299. Barcodes or PLU's
(Price Look Up numbers) can now be entered from the keyboard.
(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.
p.3 of 7
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INSTALLATION
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To Install the program:
1.) Unzip onto a floppy drive the CJPOS1xx.ZIP
file which contains a SETUP.EXE program
to create a blank part number and other
files and directories used by the program.
2.) Run SETUP from the floppy
During setup department sizes are set as
well as the prompts for customer info. At
BCAS the additional info prompts are Make &
Model, Engine, Mileage, & VIN Code.
A "demo" settings file has example names for
each department and customer Info prompts.
You can run a quick setup using these names
and change parameters later after installation.
Putting a "/" before the customer prompt during
setup or in 'Change Program Paramters'
will prevent that field from being printed
on receipts.
3.) Type CJPOS to start
Included are example LEGALEST.TXT , LEGALRCP.TXT , WARRANTY.TXT, and SAVER.TXT
files used at BCAS. Examine these files and modify to your application.
These files are ASCII format and using any text editor can modify them.
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HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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The program needs about a minimum of 1 Meg hard disk space to run.
Naturally as more receipts are written, the program could outgrow
1 Meg in size ( I hope your business is selling something ! ).
640 K of RAM is required.
DOS 3.30 or higher for the operating system.
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(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.
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This program may be used and reproduced without charge. However,
it MAY NOT be sold, and may only be distributed intact. This
program and its documentation are provided as is, without warranty
of any kind. The author assumes no liability for damages from
which may result from the missuse of CJPOS.
The evaulation version allows for a trial period of 60 sales days
a past due tag is printed on your receipts or estimates.
Those desiring a full ($ 100 including manual and latest update) or
custom modified version should contact me at this address:
MAIL TO:
CUYAHOGA COMPUTING
CHRISTOPHER J. RYBA
9207 HILLSIDE RD.
CLEVELAND, OH 44131-5420
VOICE PHONE : 216-524-1796
COMPUSERVE ID # 71413,2540
My local BBS is PC-Ohio, "The Best BBS in America" which can be called
at (216) 381-3320. There is never a problem getting on -
it has a zillion nodes.
Those wishing to talk to Chris Kilcoyne about the use of this
program at Brookpark Certified Automotive Service can contact him
at 216-749-2080 for his input on the success of this program.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is an evaluation version. No registration is required. For the
full version send $ 100 by check or money order. Price subject to
change, therefore register now and save. Print this file and send in
the next page.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.
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CJPOS POINT-OF-SALE REGISTRATION
Mailing address:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Company Name
_______________________________________________
Company Phone
____________________
***---> Disk type: [ ] 360K [ ] 720K [ ] 1.2M [ ] 1.44M <---***
The above information is critical for a proper registration file.
The REGISTER.POS file is updated by Cuyahoga Computing to give your
company an unique serial number for your copy of CJPOS.
****-->IMPORTANT !!!!!!
Please enclose a printed copy of your CJPOS SETTINGS.DAT to ensure proper
registration.
*************************************************************************
Please list any suggestions or comments on the back of this page.
Your suggestions are most welcome and I do pay attention to them.
Anyone distributing CJPOS for any kind of remuneration must
first contact Cuyahoga Computing at the address above for authorization.
Dealers interested in resale of CJPOS will be given volume discounts.
Registration MUST be done through Cuyahoga Computing so that a registration
file can be sent to the owner. You are encouraged to pass this copy of
CJPOS along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to
get the registered version if they find that they can use it. All
registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of CJPOS
and registered serial number. Price of CJPOS is subject to change at any
time, so act NOW !.
(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.
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####################### FILE LIST ################################
CJPOS.EXE - Main Program executable file
CJPOS2.EXE - Secondary module of CJPOS, must be run from CJPOS
SETUP.EXE - Sets up CJPOS, creating neccesary PN.NUM,
ITEMS.LST, LABOR.LST, and SETTINGS.DAT files.
Copies *.TXT files to your CJPOS directory.
CJPOS later uses this file for program modification.
DEMOITEM.LST - Example used for setup
DEMOLABR.LST - Example used for setup
DEMOSET.DAT - Settings for setup
WARRANTY.TXT - Example used at BCAS, Print in CJPOS receipt menu by
pressing "P"
LEGALEST.TXT - Examples used at BCAS for printing on estimates and
LEGALRCP.TXT - invoices. Use text editor to modify for your location.
SAVER.TXT - My screen saver advertisement. 5 lines of text up to
column 40 will printed on screen. This file
must be 5 lines. Invoked in the Receipt menu
when there is no keyboard activity after 5 minutes.
SETTINGS.TXT - Explanation of items in the SETTINGS.DAT file
README.TXT - This file
################## CREATED FILES BY SETUP AND EXECUTION ###################
* Indicates files that should be deleted after 'trial runs'
MAIN DIRECTORY: (C:\CJPOS)
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SETTTINGS.DAT - Holds items for program enviroment, see SETTINGS.TXT
1.DAT,2.DAT,etc. -* Your Salespeople's date of sale and amount, invoice number.
An ASCII file.
ACCOUNTS.DAT - * Fixed record database file of customers with accounts due.
BARCODE.DAT - * Binary file for UPC barcodes. Present limit is 2000 unique
UPC codes.
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CUSTSOLD. - * Fixed record database file of customers. Can be alphabetically
sorted by PROGRAM SETUP routine.
CUSTLIST.EST - * Fixed record database file of customers with estimates.
ITEMS.LST - ASCII file of a 24 column width containing primary pop-up
screen info in departments.
LABOR.LST - A 40 line file containing canned labor descriptions.
LASTSALE. - * Last sales day while running, pointer for SALELIST.
PN.NUM - The biggie, it is a fixed record file containing partnumbers,
price, cost, and inventory quantity. The records are pointed
to by ITEMS.LST, i.e., every line of ITEMS.LST has one hundred
records in PN.NUM.
SALEMAN.DAT - The names of your salespeople. Up to 15 characters each.
SALELIST. - * Binary record file of sales days. Sales info such as cash,
check, or charge totals, sales date.
SALEMNTH.TEX - An ASCII delimited text file of department totals and revenue
for each day in a sales period created by the
PRODUCTS SOLD routine. Ready for importation into a
spreadsheet program that reads fields delimited by
spaces.( Import file type - ASCII delimited )
SUBDIRECTORIES:
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\RECEIPTS
DAY#*.RCP = * ASCII files of receipts for each sales day
DAY#*.VDE = * ASCII files of any voids for the day
\EXPENSE
EXP#*. = * ASCII files of daily expenses
\TOTALS
DAY#*.TL = ASCII files of labor and products sold
created by PRODUCTS SOLD for use in monthly tallies.
\ESTIMATE
ES#*.QTE = * ASCII files of estimates written.
#############################################################################
(C) Copyright 1993, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.