                        POSAT3.3 QUICK DOCUMENTATION
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OVERVIEW

  POSAT is a Point Of Sale application for shops of any size or type.
  It performs cash register and inventory control functions, and streamlines
  stocktakes.  It features amount rounding, discount and tax calculation,
  change calculation, and low stock warning, and provides a range of
  statistics by stock item and sales person.  It is very quick to learn and
  easy to operate, and requires only a normal PC, cash drawer and docket
  printer, making the package much less expensive than an electronic cash
  register.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  POSAT3.3 requires an IBM compatible PC running DOS 3.1 or higher.  A hard
  disk and disk cache are highly recommended, as are a cash drawer and docket
  printer.


INSTALLING THE PROGRAM

  1. Put the Installation Disk in drive A: or B:.

  2. From a DOS command line enter "x:INSTALL" (where x is the name of the
     drive with the Installation Disk).

  3. Press "I" to commence the installation process.  When asked, press
     ENTER to accept the default directory to install to, or enter a fully
     qualified directory name (eg "d:\sales").

  4. Press "X" to exit from the install program.


NINE EASY STEPS TO USE POSAT THE QUICK WAY

  Make sure you installed a cache, about 3 times bigger as the size
  of the file PRICELST.EVC.  Without a cache, POSATO3.3 will run
  slowly. (1 Meg. CACHE is optimal).  The files SHOPDATA.EVC, PRICELST.EVC
  and USED.EXE must be in the same directory as POSAT3.3.

  1.  To start POSAT3.3 type "POSAT33" and press ENTER
  2.  Type salesperson code (codes are S, P, Y, or B)
  ( repeat sales starting here )
  3.  Type article CODE (see list below) and acknowledge Y/N
  4.  Type how many articles the customer wants
  5.  Type the code of the next article or "F" and ENTER or "FFFFFF"
  ( to finish sale )
  6.  Type  C, Q, or T  (standing for Cash, cheQue, crediT ).
  7.  Type the amount (cash, cheque) the customer is paying.
  ( sale is finished )
  8.  Press any key in the DAYEND field to go to the screen saver,
      or type "EDITOR" to show and modify the price list (reg'd copy only),
      or type "DAYEND" to show the day's result and close RESULT.EVC.
      Press any key to get out of the screen saver
  9.  Before you start doing the Till (count the money), type "POSATO33"
      and press ENTER.  This will read all results stored in RESULT.EVC and
      places the final results in the files:

        DAYbyDAY.EVC  = financial results up to and incl. today.

        SPERSON.EVC   = daily salesperson results,

        SOLD.EVC      = articles sold results up to and incl. today.

      Note that this evaluation copy does not rename the file RESULT.EVC
      when POSATO3.3 has processed it.


SAMPLE PRICE LIST CODES

    On line Ŀ
   v   codes       v  codes        v    codes       v    codes
         v              v                 v                v

   1   PKEG05     50  PKTP10      100   PGVS4      200   PMWS10
   2   PKEG1      51  PKTP20      101   PGVS10     400   PFWS4
   3   PKEG4      52  PKTL1       102   PGVS20     500   PSVS4
   4   PKEG10     53  PKTL4       103   PGVG1      700   PLVS1
   5   PKEG20     54  PKTL10      104   PGVG4     1000   PTWSZ4

   Type NEW   < to process an article not in the price-list.
   Type RETURN    to process a return article.
   Type PETTY < to pay any expenses.
   Type DRAWER    to open the cash drawer without a sale.


THE DAYbyDAY FILE

          Date and time
         of sales record.          Date this     Cash      Cheque       Credit
        Ŀ       entry was made.  taking    taking       taking
                                                                      
                                                                         
*   9. 2.1994          1627    ***   10. 2.1994
    13     174.10      257.80    247.84         6.75      175.20       103.05
                                   37.17       285.00        0.00       285.00
                            
                                                                          
               Total-Sale         Tax                   Petty        Balance
      Wholesale cost     Total sale            Total       cash         taking-
  No of units sold       -discounted            taking     expenses     expenses

        The file DAYbyDAY.EVC is created by POSATO3.3, and all cash
        register results are added to every time you run POSATO3.3.


THE SOLD.EVC FILE

            (today)                 -----------------
  code       units            wholesaleĿ               salesĿ
            sold                 cost                      price   
  PKFP1  20    4     82       3.00        12.00   |        6.00        24.00
  PKFP4  25   13     73      10.00       130.00   |       20.00       260.00
       stock       total                                            
       level     units sold  single  X  units sold      single  X  units sold
    indicator   (since start
                of this file)

  Every time POSATO3.3 is run it'll write to the file SOLD.EVC how
  many of each article has been sold (column 'units sold'), and add
  this to the number 'total units sold'.  Lets say there was 5 of
  each article sold until the last running of POSATO3.3, then above
  sample lines would change to:

  PKFP1  20    5     87       3.00        15.00   |        6.00        30.00
  PKFP4  25    5     78      10.00        50.00   |       20.00       100.00

  The columns 'units sold' become more importance, when it is seen in
  conjunction with the optional 'on stock' column, allowing inventory
  control. See semi-inventory and inventory on page 14 of the manual.


THE SPERSON FILE

  POSATO3.3 will create or add to this file every time
  POSATO3.3 is run :  the date of the record and the results.

  *       16. 2.1993
  Y   Yvonne              0        0.00
  S   Sue                 7      112.00
  P   Paul               11      180.51
  B   Shorn               0        0.00
  X   xxxxxxxx            0        0.00
                            --------------------
  How to handle and use the files RESULT, DAYbyDAY, SOLD and
  SPERSON are in lengths and with various options described in
  the manual.  If the docket doesn't look right, then rename the
  file displaying the name of your printer to SHOPDATA.EVC  or
  change the printer codes to suit your printer.
