VERSION 5.1x Full Release p.1 of 5 06/23/1995 ****** Full Operating Version ******* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **** INTRODUCTION **** This is the information & registration file on the program CJPOS. CJPOS was created by Christopher J. Ryba to provide an EXTREMELY 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 with DOS 3.3 or higher to point of sale operation. Default printer drivers include the EPSON character set and the HP command set. These printers have been tested. A printer driver creator is available to registered users. Print receipts and reports from any port - LPT1 thru LPT4; COM1 thru COM4. Additional default printers are being added to PRINTERS.DRV in future editions to assure compatiblity. IF TODAY IS PAST 09/01/1995 THEN YOUR COPY IS PROBABLY VERY OUTDATED CONTACT CUYAHOGA COMPUTING TO OBTAIN A MORE RECENT VERSION. THIS PROGRAM NOT ONLY FOR AUTOMOTIVE USE - BIKE SHOPS, GUITAR SHOPS, COMPUTER VENDORS, GUN SHOPS & PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE ALSO USING IT ! ********** INSTALLATION ********** 1.) Unzip all files & start program. 2.) Type CJPOS to start. Employee #1 is the default employee. Put in your company specific information using 'System Setup. (Main) ********** HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS ********** * The program needs an MINIMUM of 3 Meg hard disk space to run. Naturally as more receipts are written, the program will grow over 3 Meg in size ( I hope your business is selling something ! ). At BCAS Automotive one full year required 4 Meg of HD space for his Fiscal 1994. * 640 K of RAM is required. 520 K free RAM when starting program is recommended. The FILES= in your CONFIG.SYS should be at least 30. * DOS 3.30 or higher for the operating system. * 80286 or later micropressor. * Will run in a DOS window in Windows (R) without any problems. If you have received the automotive demo version a blank set of databases can be obtained if you would like to start building your data into the system. (C) Copyright 1995, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved. p.2 of 5 ***************************** OPERATION ******************************** This page is a quick rundown of operation. See MANUAL.TXT for more information. The list box on the left contains different departments. For BCAS of Parma these departments are Services , Exhaust, Emmisions, Brakes, Shocks & Struts, Springs, and so on till Miscellaneous. After selecting one of these a window pops up with various categories. For example, select the Exhaust Department with parts such as mufflers, pipes, hangers, clamps, etc. Using the cursor keys moves a selection box to a part category. Say we chose Mufflers, now striking the Enter key replaces the first window with a second window listing the part numbers under that category. For our example, we choose #1811G of Mufflers by using the cursor keys again to move the selection box. This exact part number for Mufflers has the price to go with it. Finally the quantity is prompted at the bottom of the window; the default value is 1. If the SKU Number representing the part is known that SKU can be scanned using barcodes or typed. To switch to that mode of entry select "Toggle SKU / Menu Entry" from the 'Main' menu. For the Services department, 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 Labor/Services department is not required to be part of the system however. 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. When a receipt is ready, it can be saved as an estimate, or finalized as TENDERING to Cash, Check, Visa/MC, Discover, American Express. More tender types are optional. 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 several letters of the last name, the last 4 digits of their phone, or by their customer number. Your present customers can be added if you desire. The 'Customer' screen provides an opurtunity to review previous sales history for customers as well. Back to the main menu, several other choices are presented. Daily sales (F8) can be viewed. A daily printout sheet of these items is provided. Also the products sold for the day, week or any variable period (2 days to ?) can be tallied, viewed, printed, or output to a ASCII space delimited, tab, or comma delimited text file for a spreedsheet program. ( Select export mode in 'System Setup') Inventory of part numbers is tracked and quantities altered in the Inventory Menu. A printout of loaded part numbers can done for every department; a cost sum of positive inventory counts is included. The program saves all information in an DBF format that can be viewed with a dBASE browse or other capable program (Excel, Quattro). See the PACKING.LST for explanation of each file. (C) Copyright 1995, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved. p.3 of 5 ***** QUESTIONS & REGISTRATION ***** This program may be used and reproduced without charge. However, it MAY NOT be sold, and may only be distributed intact. This program and its documentation are provided as is, without warranty of any kind. The author assumes no liability for damages from which may result from the missuse of CJPOS. See warranty on page 5. The evaulation version allows for a trial period of 30 sales days. Failure register will cause a past due tag to be printed on your receipts or estimates with a severe warning. Those desiring a full ($ 199 including manual and latest update) or custom modified version should contact me at this address: MAIL TO: CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. 5413 E. 131st St. CLEVELAND, OH 44125-3246 BUSINESS PHONE : 216-587-1590 Available from 9 AM to 11 PM Eastern 6 AM to 8 PM Pacific INTERNET EMAIL : christopher.ryba@pcohio.com OR cjryba@ix.netcom.com Internet ftp will soon be available & possibly a World Wide Web page with download. Alternatively if you would like to download the latest version directly feel free to call me and I will set my system to act as a BBS. Those wishing to talk to Chris Kilcoyne about the use of this program at Brookpark Certified Automotive Service can contact him or Jan Balsor at 216-749-2080 for his/her input on the success of this program. They will also accept any orders. Computer Dealers/VAR's are encouraged to distribute this POS system. Volume discounts are available. Suggested retail price of the package is $ 349. See the MANUAL.TXT 'System Setup' for details on inserting your contact information upon exit of the POS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is an evaluation version. No registration is required. For the full regestered version send $ 199 by check or money order made out to: CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, & DISCOVER are accepted thru Brookpark Certified Auto Service for an additional $10. COD's will likewise be charged an extra $10. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (C) Copyright 1995, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved. p.4 of 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CJPOS POINT-OF-SALE REGISTRATION CALL 216-749-2080 TO CHARGE YOUR COPY AT BROOKPARK CERTIFIED AUTOMOTIVE VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER ACCEPTED MAKE CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO: CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. Your Mailing address: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ****-->IMPORTANT !!!!!!<--*************-->IMPORTANT<--******************* Company Phone - EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS ON RECEIPTS, INCLUDING ANY SPACES ____________________ Disk type: [ ] 720K [ ] 1.2M [ ] 1.44M The above information is critical for a proper registration file. The REGISTER.POS file is updated by Cuyahoga Computing to give your company an unique serial number for your copy of CJPOS. ************************************************************************* Please list any suggestions or comments on the back of this page. Your suggestions are most welcome and I do pay attention to them. Anyone distributing CJPOS for any kind of renumeration must first contact Cuyahoga Computing at the address above for authorization. Dealers interested in resale of CJPOS will be given volume discounts. Registration MUST be done through Cuyahoga Computing so that a registration file can be sent to the owner. You are encouraged to pass this copy of CJPOS along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to get the registered version if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of CJPOS and registered serial number. Price of CJPOS is subject to change at any time, so act NOW !. NOTE: More features will be added in near future such as Layaway capability, returns, exchanges and more. See the HISTORY.TXT for a list of planned additions. Call or email for the latest version ! (C) Copyright 1995, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved. p.5 of 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITED WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN MATERIALS (INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE) ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. FURTHER, CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. DOES NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE, OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE, OF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN MATERIALS IN TERMS OF CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CURRENTNESS, OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY YOU. IF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN MATERIALS ARE DEFECTIVE, YOU AND NOT CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. OR ITS DEALERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AGENTS, OR EMPLOYEES, ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. THE ABOVE ARE THE ONLY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE THAT ARE MADE BY CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. ON THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN ADVICE GIVEN BY CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO., ITS DEALERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AGENTS, OR EMPLOYEES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR IN ANYWAY INCREASE THE SCOPE OF THIS WARRANTY, AND YOU MAY NOT RELY ON ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR ADVICE. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS. YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. **** LIMITATIONS OF REMEDIES **** NEITHER CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS PRODUCT SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFIT, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT, EVEN IF CUYAHOGA COMPUTING CO. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. (C) Copyright 1995, Cuyahoga Computing, All Rights Reserved.