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- OK. This is a program to handle your bank accounts on the Series 3.
- It's a hacked about version of the the "Banker" program in Mike Shaws
- books on File Handling on the Organiser II. It handles driect/debits and
- standing orders.
-
- All I can say it that I've not found a problem with it. I've not tested
- print option, but it seems to print to file OK, the tab stops are a bit
- out.
-
- On entry to the program you get a menu Open/Create.
-
- First thing you need to do is create a bank account file. You get prompted
- with a "*.odb" but this just restricts the file extension. Just type in
- "current" or whatever you want the filename to be. You then get prompted for
- the opening balance. Cursor down over Reference & Description (unless you
- want to change these) and toggle the debit/credit as appropriate. Enter the
- amount. You then get prompted for each standing order.
-
- For each standing order, enter who it is payable to, debit/credit and amount.
- These will normally always be debits, unless you have an income from somewhere.
- The number of payments should be left at -1 if the thing goes on indefinately
- but for things like poll tax which are normally 10 monthly payments, you can
- enter 10, and it will stop automatically after the 10th payment. Date paid
- is the date the S/O is paid. The already paid this month thing lets the
- software know whether to pay it or not this month. If you leave it at "No"
- and the date to pay is prior or equal to today, and soon as you finish
- entering all the S/o's a transaction will be forced across the account. You
- have been warned.
-
- After all S/o's have been entered, you get the "normal" screen which shows
- an account entry.
-
- Options valid are :-
-
- "Next" shows the next transaction.
- "Back" shows the previous transaction.
- "First" shows the first transaction - always the opening balance.
- "Last" shows the last transaction - always the current balance.
- "Menu" pulls up the menu.
-
- The menu has a lot more possibilites :-
-
- File
- ----
- Open - Psion-O Open an existing account file. A selection list of valid files
- is presented. Select one.
- Create - Psion-C Create a new account file
-
- Edit
- ----
- Transact - Psion-T Add a debit/credit record
- Add S/O - Psion-S Add a standing order or direct debit
- Delete S/O - Psion D
- Edit S/O - Psion E
- Verify - Psion V Allows consolidation against your bank statement
-
- Delete and Edit standing orders will prompt for a search string and only select
- those S/o's. Leave the search string blank, and you can step through and
- inspect each one. Hit ESCAPE to move to the next. ENTER will either delete
- the entry or make it available for editting.
-
- Verify - allows consolidation against your printed bank statement. You've got
- three option, "Yes","No","Adjust"
- "Yes" means it's on the statement.
- "No" means it isn't on the statement.
- "Adjust" means it is on the statement, but either you or the bank got the
- sum wrong, and this gives you an opportunity to correct it.
-
- After all items have been inspected. You get the opportunity to add those
- little things you forgot to enter since the last statement, credit interest
- or that ATM withdrawal you completely forgot about.
-
- View
- ----
- First, Next, Last, Back as decribed above.
-
- Special
- -------
- Print Psion-P Allows printing
- Exit Psion-X Terminate program
-
- Well, that's it. If you don't like it, you've got the source code, which is
- not eligant, not optimised, and not guaranteed in any way. If you find bugs
- or have some miracle way of using the Psion keys direct from the transaction
- display screens for adding extra transactions or amending standing orders etc
- without choosing "Menu" first, I'd like to know ta. I don't get much chance
- to play with the Series 3, it belongs to the missus, so there's probably a
- lot I've not discovered yet.
-
-
- Mike Davies. Rovoreed Ltd. 65A Grand Drive, London. SW20 9DJ.
- Phone: 081 540 8573 Fax: 081 542 9769
-