Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales version 1.6
Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Abacre Corporation.
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Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales is a new generation of restaurant 
management software for Windows. It represents complete solution 
starting from taking orders from clients and ending with billing and 
tax reports. User interface is carefully optimized for high speed 
entering of client orders and preventing mistakes from waiters. For 
managers it represents rich set of reports that shows whole picture 
about restaurant operations and life cycles: menus consumption, 
frequency of reservations, hours of high restaurant load, busiest 
tables, most active employees, payment methods, and automatic 
tax calculations. It's specially designed for using on multiple computers 
and it has reliable security authorization levels. Program can be setup
for any currencies: USD, Euro and with possibility to collect custom 
tax and tips rates or no tax/tips at all. Payments can be made in cash, 
credit cards or checks. Layouts of bills any can be customized. The 
software radically improves serving speed by standardizing whole 
restaurant management process. It's easy to install and start to use. 
Very affordable pricing allows this software to spread not only in 
large chains, but also in small family-based restaurants or fast foods.

Requirements
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Program work under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003.
Microsoft ADO (MDAC) components are required. They maybe freely downloaded 
from Microsoft.com web site.

What's new
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ARPOS v1.7
 Feature: Show Property Name in title of main window
 Feature: Show Property Logo in tool bar of main window
 Bug fixed: Second correction: reports with period "This" were not 
  displayed correctly.

ARPOS v1.6
 Feature: Support of serial and kitchen printers, poles and cash drivers.
 Feature: Possibility to send notifications about an order to several 
   printers, for example, kitchen, bar etc.
 Feature: Added menu item categories
 Feature: New command: transfer items to another table
 Feature: Added Currency Format field in Property Settings.
 Feature: Now any string chars may be used as table codes.
 Feature: Delete Order button in Orders window.
 Feature: Possibility to show only categories (without menu items) in 
   a bill (Window Preferences - "Show Menu Items" option).
 Feature: Possibility to log off.
 Feature: New option: "Show Quantity" in Bill Configuration window.
 Bug fixed: reports with period "This" were not displayed correctly.

Here are the details about installation of the new version:
1.      For very careful users: please make a copy of installation
        folder of old version of the program. By default it is:
        C:\Program Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales. You may
        just put it into zip file. But keep also C:\Program
        Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales with all files in it:
        installation file will update it.
2.      Download the new version from
        http://www.abacre.com/download/arpos.zip
3.      Start the installation file.
4.      Install the program.
5.      Start the program.
6.      Program will ask you to update DB structure. Press [Yes]. This
        is obligatory step for running v1.6. We made a lot of changes
        so v1.6 works with some extended DB structure.
7.      This is the obligatory step: In v1.6 we created Menu Item
        Categories. So go to main menu - "Configuration" - "Menu Item
        Categories" you should add categories like: STARTERS, MAIN
        COURSES, DRINKS etc.
8.      This is the obligatory step: Then in main menu -
        "Configuration" - "Menu Items" - for each item you should
        specify to which category it belongs.
9.      That's all you may start working now. If you don't need
        printing of menu items categories in bills please switch it
        off in main menu - "Configuration" - "Bill Configuration" -
        "Advanced".

ARPOS v1.5
 Feature: selecting menu items by code.
 Feature: Support of multi-language user interface.
 Feature: Printing bills without using confirmation window.
 Feature: new Cancel order button.
 Feature: items table width is now resized dynamically.
 Feature: corrected align of text in a bill.
 Bug fixed: Report "menu items" now displays info about sales of items, 
   not orders.
 Bug fixed: Report "sales by payment method" now groups payment methods 
   correctly.
 Bug fixed: Corrected price formatting in bills.

ARPOS v1.0
 Official release.

Installation/Unistallation
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Create appropriate directory, for example, c:\ARPOS\, and unzip ARPOS.ZIP 
file. Then run SETUP.EXE program and follow to standard installation 
instructions. 

To uninstall Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales, Run Add/Remove Programs from Control 
Panel and choose ARPOS.

Purchasing information
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The registration fee is $19.99 US dollars or equivalent amount in EURO
for each table.
www.abacre.com/register.htm
Author's address
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http://www.abacre.com
e-mail: support@abacre.com
