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- SOAR
- USERS GUIDE
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- May 7, 1987
- Version 1.0
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- E.B. Croson
- P.O. Box 1575
- Ojai, CA 93023
- (805) 646-7507
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- Copyright (C) 1987 by Eddie B. Croson. All Rights Reserved
- except those expressly granted to the user by this document.
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- DISTRIBUTION NOTICE
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- SOAR is distributed by way of the "User Supported Software"
- concept. If you use this program and find it of value you are
- encouraged to become a registered owner. You may become a reg-
- istered owner by filling out the registration form at the end
- of this document and mailing it with a check for $49.00 to:
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- E.B. Croson or Business Automation Co.
- P.O. Box 1575 P.O. Box 1330
- Ojai, CA 93023 Camarillo, CA 93011
- (805) 646-7507 (805) 388-3383
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- When you become a registered owner you will receive the latest
- program diskettes, a complete Users Manual, telephone support,
- and notification of updates. The Users Manual is much more
- comphrensive than this guide and fully describes all of the
- capabilities of SOAR.
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- You are encouraged to copy and distribute SOAR with the
- following restrictions:
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- 1. SOAR must be distributed as a complete set. Do
- not alter or erase any program files from the
- distribution copies.
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- 2. No Charge or Fee other than that necessary to
- cover the cost of diskettes shall be made for
- distributing SOAR.
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- 3. Commercial sale of SOAR in any manner is pro-
- hibited without the written permission of the
- author, E.B. Croson.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- Although the author, Eddie B. Croson, has tried to make this
- program error free, there is still the possibility of errors.
- You are therefore using this program at your own risk. There
- is no warranty of merchantability or fitness. The author is
- not responsible for any losses incurred through the use of this
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- SECTION 1
- INTRODUCTION 1
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- SECTION 2
- A BIT ABOUT SOAR 3
- 2.1 System File 3
- 2.2 Customer Records 3
- 2.3 Summary Catagories: 3
- 2.4 Transaction Catagories 4
- 2.5 Charge or Payment Transactions 5
- 2.6 Transaction Interactions 6
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- SECTION 3
- CREATING CATAGORIES 8
- 3.1 Selecting Summary Catagories 8
- 3.1.1 Income Catagories 8
- 3.1.2 Charge Catagories 8
- 3.2 Transaction Catagories 9
- 3.2.1 General Purpose Catagories 9
- 3.2.2 Specific Transaction Catagories 10
- 3.2.3 Miscellaneous Transaction Catagories 11
- 3.2.4 Partitioning Transaction Catagories 11
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- SECTION 4
- GETTING STARTED 13
- 4.1 Some Conventions 13
- 4.2 SOAR Distribution Diskettes 13
- 4.3 Making Copies of SOAR 13
- 4.4 Installing SOAR For Your System 14
- 4.4.1 SOAR IN A Hard Disk System 14
- 4.4.2 SOAR IN A 360K Floppy Disk System 15
- 4.4.3 SOAR In A 1.2M Floppy Disk System 15
- 4.5 Setting Up The SOAR System File 16
- 4.5.1 Starting SOAR 17
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- SECTION 5
- BUILDING A CUSTOMER FILE 20
- 5.1 Customer ID 20
- 5.2 Customer Address 21
- 5.3 Customer Tax Status 21
- 5.4 Customer Current Financial Status 21
- 5.5 Customer Last Payment Data 22
- 5.6 Customer Monthly Finance Charge 22
- 5.7 Saving Your Customer Data 22
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- SECTION 6
- ENTERING SUMMARY CATAGORIES 24
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- SECTION 7
- BUILDING A TRANSACTION CATAGORY FILE 25
- 7.1 Adding A Block of Catagories 25
- 7.2 Adding A Single Catagory 27
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- SECTION 8
- EXPLORING SOAR 29
- 8.1 Saving Your Work 29
- 8.2 Entering Transactions 30
- 8.3 Posting Transactions 33
- 8.4 Applying Automatic Charges 34
- 8.5 Applying Late Charges 34
- 8.6 Preparing Bills 34
- 8.7 End of Period Processing 36
- 8.8 More Exploring 36
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- SECTION 9
- PHASING SOAR INTO YOUR BUSINESS 37
- 9.1 Completing Your Data Files 38
- 9.2 Running Parallel 38
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- SECTION 10
- HOW OFTEN TO USE SOAR 39
- 10.1 Daily 39
- 10.2 Monthly 39
- 10.3 Yearly 40
- 10.4 Final Note 40
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- SOAR REGISTRATION FORM 41
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