Shelf tags and lay-away

[John]

Mr. Harris:

An idea for its program of point of sale would be to add one program or routine that creates labels of products to place them in the shelves or gondo them of the market so that the client knows cúal is the price and if it is in special or regular.
<pre>+-------------------+
| BRASS KEY | <-- Item description
| $4.95 (R) | <-- Price (R= Regular price, S= Special price)
| 35413543541 | <-- Stock Number
+-------------------+</pre>

In addition it could on credit include a payment plan (LAY-A-WAY) for the clients.

John

[Dale Harris]

John,

I like the shelf tag idea. Lay-aways will be part of the "customer accounts" feature assuming that it ever gets done.

[Andrew]

John,

Shelf labels can easily be created by someone in any word processor etc. If someone wanted to - they may even write a program to print them.

As for layaway - I am aware customer accounts is near the top of Dale's to-do list, and layways could be done using that.

Please note - last I knew he's working on X-Charge credit card authentication and trying to work on some pole display issues...

[Dale Harris]

I was thinking of adding "shelf tags" to the stock table feature. The "manipulate / export lines" part. That way you can use that feature to select lines and then press a key to print the selected lines as tags.

The question is what size to print the tags? Maybe it would be a good idea to optionally send the tags to a text file and then you can load them into a word processing program and format them and print them from there.

Any more ideas out there?

[RJ_notloggedin]

There are a few more questions. If someone were to write a program, would barcodes be useful? Which type of barcode? For my pos system I made a portion of the program to interface with the Avery5160 Mailing label format.

Dale, you said something about exporting a list to a file... How would it be exported and formatted? Maybe I could help by writing a program? If so, let me know.

R.J.

[Dale Harris]

R.J.,

Barcodes would probably be a good option on shelf tags and I guess that you could also use the tags for other purposes that would make barcodes useful. However I'm not going to even try to print barcodes from DOS. I have better things to do with the rest of my life.

I will give the usual options for exporting shelf tags, printer, text file, and comma delimited data file.

To make my life easier (and that is why we are all here, isn't it?) I will make the shelf tag thing part the "Export" feature in the stock table. That will allow you to select which fields in the stock table to print on the tags and allow you to choose the order you want to print each field.

I will probably also allow you to choose to export the tags justified either to the left or centered but not to print more than one field per line because that would return us to making my life difficult. And we all want to avoid that.

[RJ_notloggedin]

Dale, I could possibly whip up a program to take the exported file and print the barcodes from my program . I didn't mean for you to make the actual barcodes . Sorry.

R.J.