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Credit Card Checker CCC A TSR for Order Entry Clerks Copyright 1993 by Paul Mayer and ZPAY Payroll Systems, Inc. Contents 1 CCC Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Legalese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 What Is CCC? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.1 Hot Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.2 Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.3 Sound or windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.4 Marker position . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.5 Tsr handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.6 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.6.1 Get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.6.2 Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.6.3 Exit to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5 Loading CCC for use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 Using CCC in your application . . . . . . . . . 6 i 1 CCC Order Form Registration fee $25.00 each: $________ Florida Residents Add Tax $1.75 each: $________ Sub Total: $________ Shipping and handling each: $________ ($5.00 in USA $10.00 Outside USA) Total Due: $________ Media desired: 5.25 size disk _____ or 3.5 size disk _____ Upon registration you will receive the latest version of CCC with the shareware screens removed. Fill out this form and return it along with your check payable to ZPAY Payroll Systems in US currency to: ZPAY Payroll Systems 2526 69th Avenue South St. Petersburg, FL 33712-5631 MasterCard or Visa orders accepted by CIS email to: 70040,645 Check enclosed _____ or charge my Visa _____ or Master Card _____ Name on card:____________________________________________________ Card number:______________________________ Expires:______________ Signature:_______________________________________________________ Name:________________________________________ Company:_____________________________________ Street Address:______________________________ City:________________________________________ State:_____________ Zip Code:________________ Telephone number:____________________________ Where did you receive your copy of CCC?:______________________ ________________________________________Version number:__________ Comments:________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 2 Legalese Users of CCC must accept this disclaimer of warranty:"CCC is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of CCC." CCC is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using CCC and continue to use CCC after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $25.00 to ZPAY Payroll Systems. The $25.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of CCC must register and pay for their copies of CCC within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting ZPAY Payroll Systems. Anyone distributing CCC for any kind of remuneration must first contact ZPAY Payroll Systems at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering CCC immediately (However ZPAY Payroll Systems must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of CCC.). You are encouraged to pass a copy of CCC along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a code to remove the shareware registration screen. - 2 - Member ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) Paul Mayer is a Member of The Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP has established stringent standards for its members. ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a problem with an ASP member (other than technical support), ASP may be able to help. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536 3 What Is CCC? CCC, more affectionately known as the Credit Card Checker, is for those who take credit card orders and enter the data into a database on a PC or compatible computer. CCC will eliminate any errors in transposing credit card number when taking orders on the phone, may it be the callers mistake or the order entry person. After entering the credit card number in your order entry screen, a press of the hot key and CCC pops up to pluck the number from the screen and validate the information. The program has a number of options from displaying a window telling you if the card is good or not, as well as telling you what type of card it is, MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover. You can select a faster option of using sound for the verification and you will hear a short high pitched tone if the number is valid or a longer rumbling sound if it's a bad number. You can set the location the plucking marker pops up so it covers your order entry program's credit card number entry field each time as a default location. There are a number of other options that will be covered later in this manual. 4 Installation You can copy the files CCC.EXE (the main TSR program) and CCCCFG.EXE (the CCC Configuration program) into a directory on your hard drive of your choice. If you'd like, you can create a directory called CCC to contain the files so you remember in the future where they are located. You will need to run the CCCCFG.EXE program initially to set up a few default settings before you use CCC for the first time. The first time that you run CCCCFG.EXE you will not need to get the old configuration from CCC.EXE. (Getting a configuration will be explained shortly). The CCCCFG menu structure has the following options: - 3 - Hot key Colors Sound or windows Marker position Tsr handling Files | | | | Swap memory or full TSR? | Force to disk swap? | | Get Save Exit to DOS 4.1 Hot Key The first selection that you must set is the Hot key that you want as the pop up hot key. The default setting is <Alt>Z which may conflict with another TSR program or underlying application that you might use. Select Hot key and press the key combination that you desire as your pop up key combination. You can select just about any combination you can think of. Some examples are: <Ctrl>Z <Alt><Ctrl>Z <Alt><Ctrl><Right Shift>L 4.2 Colors Next if you want to see the default colors and change them select Colors. Follow the on screen instructions to change them if you desire. 4.3 Sound or windows The Sound or windows option will allow you to select to change the default of displaying the result in a pop up window to just using sound to pass the results of the check on to the operator. Sound is much faster but you may want to use the window until you've gotten used to using CCC. When you select this menu selection, you will be prompted with the question "Want to display results on screen?". A "Y" will use the default pop up window and a "N" will revert to sound. 4.4 Marker position This is where you enter the row and column as well as the length of the marker block that covers the credit card number on screen in your order entry program. You will not change this until you've saved the preliminary configuration and run CCC on top of your order entry program. We have a built-in display in CCC.EXE that will give you the numbers you need for this part of the program setup. The following step will be used after you've finished the preliminary setup. Use this method "LATER" to get the information for this configuration option: - 4 - After you've saved the preliminary configuration and popped up CCC over your order entry program you need to find the position for the default. This is done by moving the marking block with the arrow keys to cover a credit card entry field in your order entry program. You can also adjust the length of the marking block with the F7 and F8 keys of your computer when CCC is popped up. After it's positioned to your satisfaction, press the F10 key. You will see in the lower border of the help window the following information: Marker Column = XX, Row = XX and Length = XX Write this down on a piece of paper and go back to the CCCCFG.EXE program to set the default marker block positions. When loading CCCCFG this time, you must use the "Get" selection under the "Files" menu selection. This will read in the configuration that you saved after performing your initial setup configuration. 4.5 Tsr handling This menu selection is for forcing some of the TSR handling routines. There are two sub-selections, "Swap memory or Full TSR?" and "Force to disk swap?". Swap memory of Full TSR will allow you to select the default setting of swapping as a small 7K TSR or a full non-swapping TSR which is 70K. The small 7K option (default) is preferred as it uses little memory resources. Force to disk swap will force the TSR in swapping mode to use disk rather than EMS or XMS memory. If you don't have EMS or XMS memory on your computer, CCC will swap to disk as a default. 4.6 Files Under the Files menu option is Get, Save and Exit to DOS. 4.6.1 Get The Get sub-menu item will read in the configuration that you saved in CCC.EXE after you've made the above changes and have saved them by using the next menu item described. You will use this selection whenever you start up CCCCFG.EXE after this initial setup process is completed. 4.6.2 Save The Save menu selection is what you will use after you've completed the above initial setup process. This will configure CCC.EXE with the changes that you've made in the configuration program. You will also use this option any time that you use CCCCFG to make changes that you want saved as the default settings in CCC.EXE. - 5 - 4.6.3 Exit to DOS This selection is used when you have finished with the configuration process and are ready to exit the CCCCFG.EXE program. 5 Loading CCC for use CCC.EXE is a memory resident program. You just need to load it at the DOS prompt by logging into the CCC directory and type CCC at the DOS prompt. You will receive a message something like this: CCC The Memory Resident Credit Card Checker Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 1993 by Paul Mayer & ZPAY Payroll Systems, Inc. CCC loaded. Press <Alt>Z to call up CCC. To uninstall CCC type CCC /R Using EMS memory for swap As you can see, CCC tells you the hot key that you've set as your default as well as tells you how to unload CCC from memory if you want to remove it after use. 6 Using CCC in your application After loading CCC into memory, you can load your order entry program. We assume that you've set the location of the marking block already as described above and are ready to go to work. As soon as you've typed in a credit card number, press the CCC hot key. CCC will pop up and cover the number. If you've opted to use the display window to report on the cards, press enter after CCC pops up. CCC will check the number and display the report. Press enter to exit CCC and continue with order entry operations. Repeat as needed. If you've opted for the sound method of reporting, simply press enter after CCC pops up and listen for the report. Repeat as needed. You can also use CCC to enter a card number for checking. Just press the F9 key after popping up CCC and enter the number for checking. - 6 -