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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 3.5:
1) Items in inventory can now be flagged as "Taxable" or "Non-Taxable"
to allow for freight, shipping, labor, etc... to be added here.
2) A 3rd price class has been added to the inventory file to allow
an additional pricing structure to be maintained.
3) Default Profit Margin calculations are now displayed when adding
a new inventory item assisting you in determining your sale prices.
These margin percentages are maintained in the COMPANY INFORMATION
FILE under "Utilities" from the Main Menu.
4) The Order Summary Report has been re-worked to print more financial
information (sales tax collected, profit, etc..) as well as totals.
5) Inventory comments have been enlarged to allow 3 lines to be entered
as well as printing them on the Quotations/Invoices. This allows
a more detailed description for each product sold to be given.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.0:
1) SAS is now NETWORK COMPATIBLE. SAS has been tested successfully on
a Novell network system, and will allow sharing the database files
across multiple workstations. Users can Add, Delete, Change, etc..
any existing records with the new data being available immediately
to the other users on the Network.
2) PRINTER SUPPORT has been IMPROVED in the following ways:
a) A new option on the COMPANY INFORMATION UTILITY MENU allows
setting your printer emulation to IBM or EPSON. Prior versions
assumed IBM emulation and printers without this would print
ASCII characters in place of line draw characters.
b) Reports are now formatted at 59 lines per page with automatic
form-feeds to allow compatibility with ALL printers.
Prior versions were formatted at 66 lines which caused
page-overflow on laser printers. The auto form-feed addition
allows dot-matrix printers to continue functioning normally.
3) Vendors are now assigned a VENDOR NUMBER automatically. You can
access your vendor list alphabetically by name, or numerically
by vendor number.
4) The "QUANTITY SOLD" per item on invoices has been increased to
99,999 allowing business who sell large quantities of "small priced"
items to use SAS. The order total maximum remains at $999,999.00.
5) To allow room to display the larger quantities (#4 above) on the
Order Entry screen, the PRODUCT DESCRIPTION field has been SHORTENED
from 32 characters to 27 characters. To compensate for this however,
the INVENTORY COMMENTS field has been renamed to EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
and lengthened from 3 lines of 32 characters to 4 lines of 27
characters. Information previously entered into this field will
reformat properly (word-wrap) when the field is entered into from
the INVENTORY UPDATE form.
6) A NEW inventory description field called NOTES OF IMPORTANCE has been
added (4 lines of 27 characters) to allow addition of technical notes
on an inventory items that WILL NOT PRINT ON INVOICES. This replaces
the possible loss of the intended use of the comments field from the
update made in version 3.5, when comments became additional printed
descriptions.
7) SAS now supports the use of extended and expanded memory for large
data files. Consult the SAS.DOC file for more detailed information.
8) A "BUG" has been fixed that caused line item in an invoice to drop
to the bottom of the displayed list when it was re-accessed or
changed.
9) In the COMPANY INFORMATION screen, a new default can be set for the
number of months to calculate finance payments. Prior versions had
hard-coded the terms to 3-Yr., 4-Yr., & 5-Yr.
10) SCREEN COLORS and POP-UP WINDOW POSITIONS have been re-worked to
allow easier readability on monochrome monitors.
11) With the addition all of the features above, the SAS.EXE program
has been recompiled with OVERLAYS. This has caused the main file
to grow in size from 180K to 450K (disk size). Prior versions were
compressed with the LZEXE.EXE algorithm, whereas this version cannot
be compressed. The overlays allow SAS to consume LESS memory when
running.
12) A batch file named REPAIR.BAT is included to RESTRUCTURE all
SAS data files and indexes in the event of power loss and/or data
file errors. If any data file errors occur, running the REPAIR.BAT
file will correct them.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.00a:
1) A "BUG" has been fixed that caused the ORDER COST to mis-calculate
when the ORDER DETAIL TICKET was printed.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.1:
1) When adding a new line item to an order, you are given the chance
to edit the price is you wish. While this feature is not new, you
may now press ALT-F1 to insert Price Class 1, ALT-F2 to insert Price
Class 2, and ALT-F3 to insert Price Class 3. This will save you from
looking at the complete inventory form and allow discount pricing to
be given "On-The-Fly".
2) A new function has been added to the UTILITY MENU to allow you to
MASS UPDATE your inventory pricing. If you like to keep all of your
price classes consistant to the default margins and your COSTS change
frequently, this option will reset EACH PRICE CLASS for ALL ITEMS to
equal the DEFAULT PRICE CLASS MARGINS.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.2:
1) A "BUG" has been fixed that caused page breaks to be inconsistent
when printing the Client, Vendor, or Order Summary reports.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.5:
1) All printer output may now be re-directed to either the Screen,
Printer (LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, or LPT4), or Disk file. Also the number
of copies to print may be assigned. The program will automatically
prompt for the desired output device each time a print command is
issued.
IMPORTANT!! This upgrade was possible only with the addition of
some low-level DOS calls that are NOT compatible with
most versions of the DOS command FASTOPEN. If FASTOPEN
appears in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file it must ne removed
and your computer re-booted before version 4.5 will
run correctly. Otherwise, an ILLEGAL DOS HANDLE error
will occur.
2) When preparing to print an order, the SHIP TO address will now default
(and automatically fill in) the information from the BILL TO address.
This information may be edited if necessary.
3) For those who desire, you may print your orders on the pre-printed
letterhead of your company by BLANKING the fields in the
COMPANY INFORMATION FILE for Name, Address, City, State, Zip Code,
and Phone Number. BLANKING these fields will leave a 6-line
header at the top of an invoice for your letterhead. Previously,
punctuation marks and 0's would print where the Zip Code and
Phone Number would normally have been printed.
4) The maximum sales tax percentage allowable previously was 9.99%.
I have since learned that there are states with ??.???% sales tax
rates (an extension of 3 numbers AFTYER the decimal)
SAS will now allow tax rates with 3 decimal numbers.
5) An additional field has been added to the ORDER DETAIL screen when
preparing to print an order that allows you to enter a credit
card authorization (approval) number. This information will
print on your order after the expiration date next to the line
titled EXP/AUTH.
6) The "Quantity Sold" maximum for an individual line item has been
increased from 99,999 to 999,999 to allow business who sell large
amounts of "small priced" items to use SAS (Item #4 in the 4.0
update above was not enough for some!) The total dollar amount
of an order still retains the maximum of $999,999.99.
7) The ZIP CODE field in the COMPANY, CLIENT, and VENDOR file has
converted from a NUMERIC ONLY field to an ALPHA NUMERIC field
to permit Canadian Zip Codes and other international countries.
Also, STATE has been lengthened from 2 to 3 characters, for
the longer required abreviations of these countries. The CITY
field was shortened from 18 characters to 17 characters to allow
these fields to display on the ORDER ENTRY screen. If you have
any city names of 18 characters (doubtful) they will be truncated
to 17 during the data conversion process.
8) An option has been added to the report menu to print client
MAILING LABELS.
9) A new field has been added to the CLIENT database allowing you to
set a default PRICE CLASS for each client. When adding a new order
in ORDER ENTRY this price class will be assumed and entered into
the order screen. You may change it for any order desired, it
is only used to prompt as the default, so you do not have to think
about the price class you normally sell to this client at.
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If you have obtained this version of SAS as SHAREWARE and are using an
earlier version of SAS (as un-registered SHAREWARE), your data files WILL NOT
be compatible.
Registered Users receive the latest version WITH a data conversion utility.