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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 3.5:
1) Items in inventory can now be flagged as "Taxable" or "Non-
Taxable" to allow for freight, shipping, labor, etc... to be
added here.
2) A 3rd price class has been added to the inventory file to allow
an additional pricing structure to be maintained.
3) Default Profit Margin calculations are now displayed when
adding a new inventory item assisting you in determining your
sale prices. These margin percentages are maintained in the
COMPANY INFORMATION FILE under "Utilities" from the Main Menu.
4) The Order Summary Report has been re-worked to print more
financial information (sales tax collected, profit, etc..) as
well as totals.
5) Inventory comments have been enlarged to allow 3 lines to be
entered as well as printing them on the Quotations/Invoices.
This allows a more detailed description for each product sold
to be given.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.0:
1) SAS is now NETWORK COMPATIBLE. SAS has been tested
successfully on a Novell network system, and will allow sharing
the database files across multiple workstations. Users can
Add, Delete, Change, etc.. any existing records with the new
data being available immediately to the other users on the
Network.
2) PRINTER SUPPORT has been IMPROVED in the following ways:
a) A new option on the COMPANY INFORMATION UTILITY MENU allows
setting your printer emulation to IBM or EPSON. Prior
versions assumed IBM emulation and printers without this
would print ASCII characters in place of line draw
characters.
b) Reports are now formatted at 59 lines per page with
automatic form-feeds to allow compatibility with ALL
printers. Prior versions were formatted at 66 lines which
caused page-overflow on laser printers. The auto form-feed
addition allows dot-matrix printers to continue functioning
normally.
3) Vendors are now assigned a VENDOR NUMBER automatically. You
can access your vendor list alphabetically by name, or
numerically by vendor number.
4) The "QUANTITY SOLD" per item on invoices has been increased to
99,999 allowing business who sell large quantities of "small
priced" items to use SAS. The order total maximum remains at
$999,999.00.
5) To allow room to display the larger quantities (#4 above) on
the Order Entry screen, the PRODUCT DESCRIPTION field has been
SHORTENED from 32 characters to 27 characters. To compensate
for this however, the INVENTORY COMMENTS field has been renamed
to EXTENDED DESCRIPTION and lengthened from 3 lines of 32
characters to 4 lines of 27 characters. Information previously
entered into this field will reformat properly (word-wrap) when
the field is entered into from the INVENTORY UPDATE form.
6) A NEW inventory description field called NOTES OF IMPORTANCE
has been added (4 lines of 27 characters) to allow addition of
technical notes on an inventory items that WILL NOT PRINT ON
INVOICES. This replaces the possible loss of the intended use
of the comments field from the update made in version 3.5, when
comments became additional printed descriptions.
7) SAS now supports the use of extended and expanded memory for
large data files. Consult the SAS.DOC file for more detailed
information.
8) A "BUG" has been fixed that caused line item in an invoice to
drop to the bottom of the displayed list when it was
re-accessed or changed.
9) In the COMPANY INFORMATION screen, a new default can be set for
the number of months to calculate finance payments. Prior
versions had hard-coded the terms to 3-Yr., 4-Yr., & 5-Yr.
10) SCREEN COLORS and POP-UP WINDOW POSITIONS have been re-worked
to allow easier readability on monochrome monitors.
11) With the addition all of the features above, the SAS.EXE
program has been recompiled with OVERLAYS. This has caused the
main file to grow in size from 180K to 625K (disk size). Prior
versions were compressed with the LZEXE.EXE algorithm, whereas
this version cannot be compressed. The overlays allow SAS to
consume LESS memory when running.
12) A batch file named REPAIR.BAT is included to RESTRUCTURE all
SAS data files and indexes in the event of power loss and/or
data file errors. If any data file errors occur, running the
REPAIR.BAT file will correct them.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.00a:
1) A "BUG" has been fixed that caused the ORDER COST to
mis-calculate when the ORDER DETAIL TICKET was printed.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.1:
1) When adding a new line item to an order, you are given the
chance to edit the price is you wish. While this feature is not
new, you may now press ALT-F1 to insert Price Class 1, ALT-F2
to insert Price Class 2, and ALT-F3 to insert Price Class 3.
This will save you from looking at the complete inventory form
and allow discount pricing to be given "On-The-Fly".
2) A new function has been added to the UTILITY MENU to allow you
to MASS UPDATE your inventory pricing. If you like to keep all
of your price classes consistent to the default margins and
your COSTS change frequently, this option will reset EACH PRICE
CLASS for ALL ITEMS to equal the DEFAULT PRICE CLASS MARGINS.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.2:
1) A "BUG" has been fixed that caused page breaks to be
inconsistent when printing the Client, Vendor, or Order Summary
reports.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 4.5:
1) All printer output may now be re-directed to either the Screen,
Printer (LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, or LPT4), or Disk file. Also the
number of copies to print may be assigned. The program will
automatically prompt for the desired output device each time a
print command is issued.
IMPORTANT!! This upgrade was possible only with the addition
of some low-level DOS calls that are NOT
compatible with most versions of the DOS command
FASTOPEN. If FASTOPEN appears in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file it must be removed and your computer
re-booted before version 4.5 will run correctly.
Otherwise, an ILLEGAL DOS HANDLE error will occur.
2) When preparing to print an order, the SHIP TO address will now
default (and automatically fill in) the information from the
BILL TO address. This information may be edited if necessary.
3) For those who desire, you may print your orders on the
pre-printed letterhead of your company by BLANKING the fields
in the COMPANY INFORMATION FILE for Name, Address, City, State,
Zip Code, and Phone Number. BLANKING these fields will leave a
6-line header at the top of an invoice for your letterhead.
Previously, punctuation marks and 0's would print where the Zip
Code and Phone Number would normally have been printed.
4) The maximum sales tax percentage allowable previously was
9.99%. I have since learned that there are states with ??.???%
sales tax rates (an extension of 3 numbers AFTER the decimal)
SAS will now allow tax rates with 3 decimal numbers.
5) An additional field has been added to the ORDER DETAIL screen
when preparing to print an order that allows you to enter a
credit card authorization (approval) number. This information
will print on your order after the expiration date next to the
line titled EXP/AUTH.
6) The "Quantity Sold" maximum for an individual line item has
been increased from 99,999 to 999,999 to allow business who
sell large amounts of "small priced" items to use SAS (Item #4
in the 4.0 update above was not enough for some!) The total
dollar amount of an order still retains the maximum of
$999,999.99.
7) The ZIP CODE field in the COMPANY, CLIENT, and VENDOR file has
converted from a NUMERIC ONLY field to an ALPHA NUMERIC field
to permit Canadian Zip Codes and other international countries.
Also, STATE has been lengthened from 2 to 3 characters, for
the longer required abbreviations of these countries. The CITY
field was shortened from 18 characters to 17 characters to
allow these fields to display on the ORDER ENTRY screen. If
you have any city names of 18 characters (doubtful) they will
be truncated to 17 during the data conversion process.
8) An option has been added to the report menu to print client
MAILING LABELS.
9) A new field has been added to the CLIENT database allowing you
to set a default PRICE CLASS for each client. When adding a
new order in ORDER ENTRY this price class will be assumed and
entered into the order screen. You may change it for any order
desired, it is only used to prompt as the default, so you do
not have to think about the price class you normally sell to
this client at.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 5.0:
1) Inventory quantities can now be tracked. Qty on hand, Qty on
order, and minimum quantity. Numerous inventory reports have
also been added.
2) Inventory items now have a GROUP field, which is used to
categorize inventory items into SUB-GROUPS for reports.
3) Invoice records are now LOCKED and can only be accessed from
the INVOICE RECORDS table. This means that items sold on an
order will become a permanent part of that order, including
their cost and description. Previously, if an items cost
changed, or an item was deleted from inventory that was sold on
an existing invoice, that invoice would have inconsistent order
cost and profit totals. All orders are still entered through
ORDER ENTRY, and remain there if they are QUOTATIONS. The
moment you make it an INVOICE, the complete record of that
INVOICE cannot be changed.
4) Invoice numbers are now generated SEPARATELY from quotation
numbers. This will allow all invoices to be in a numerical
sequence regardless of the original date of the order. The
quotation number and invoice number for all orders can also be
seen on the scrolling tables.
5) The sales tax report now shows TAXABLE and NON-TAXABLE sales
totals.
6) The salesmans name will print on each quotation / invoice.
7) Order summary reports can be generated for individual clients
or salespeople.
8) Packing slips may be printed for invoices.
9) Vendor mailing labels have been added.
10) Extended product descriptions can now be viewed for each item
on an order DIRECT from the Order Entry screen.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 5.0a:
1) A "bug" was fixed that omitted the vendor information from the
order detail report.
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Additions to THE COMPLETE SALES AUTOMATION SYSTEM in version 5.0b:
1) A "bug" was fixed that omitted the cost information from the
order detail report.
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If you have obtained this version of SAS as SHAREWARE and are using
an earlier version of SAS (as un-registered SHAREWARE), your data
files WILL NOT be compatible.
Registered Users receive the latest version WITH a data conversion
utility.