this is the information file on the program CJPOS.
CJPOS was created by Christopher J. Ryba to provide a 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 to point of sale operation. Any printer that can do EPSON emulation will work to print receipts (most printers do).
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 always Labor), F2 is Exhaust, F3 is Emmisions, F4 is Brakes, 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 Exhuast Department with parts such as mufflers, pipes, hangers, clamps, etc. Using the cursor keys moves a selection box to a part description. Striking the Enter key replaces the first window with a second window listing the part numbers under that part description. Using the cursor keys again, an exact part number is then selected which 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 35,200 unique part numbers can be loaded into the program in this manner for departments F2 thru F12. A total of 39 "canned" labor descriptions can loaded into the Labor department (F1).
When a receipt is ready, it can be saved as an estimate, or finalized as sold to Cash, Check, Visa/MC, Discover, or American Express. 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.
To Install the program:
1.) PKUNZIP to a floppy the CJPOS.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 a floppy
3.) Type CJPOS to start
The program needs 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 ! ).
Contact me if you need a custom installation.
The evaulation version allows for a trial period of 59 sales days. Those desiring a full ($ 100 including manual and updates) or custom modified version should contact me at this address:
CHRISTOPHER J. RYBA
9207 HILLSIDE RD.
INDEPENDENCE, OH 44131-5420
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.
