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ASI Point Of Sale 6.0 Startup Guide.

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ASI POINT OF SALE 6.0

STARTUP GUIDE

Anand Systems Inc.

35 East 10th Street, Suite F, Tracy, CA, 95376, USA

Phone: 1-800-431-4786 Sales Extension 1, Support Extension 2

Fax: 1-800-431-4919

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Web: http://www.AnandSystems.com

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sr. No. Description Page No.

i. Configuration Wizard. 3

ii. Property Menu. 25

iii. Master Menu.

iv. Item Master Menu.

v. Transaction Menu.

vi. Expense Management Menu.

vii. Reports Menu.

viii.



Execute the setup from CD or download. Upon starting the setup, you will see the following security warning.

Publisher will be displayed as Anand Systems Inc. Please Click on Run button to initiate the setup process.



The Setup wizard will start executing. The following welcome screen will appear.

Click on Next button.



The license agreement will be displayed in this wizard page. Please read the full text of license agreement by

scrolling down in the text area. Once you have read through the license, please click on the ‘I accept the

agreement.’ Finally click on Next button.



The software can be installed on one computer or several computers in a local area network. Select the setup

type on this screen depending upon your requirement.

Select setup type Standalone Installation and click on Next button. If you wish to install in a network

environment, select appropriate role of the computer, i.e., Sever Installation or Client Installation and click on

Next button. You may call ASI Technical Support for further guidance on network installation.

After selecting the installation type, you will see the below given message confirming you with the last time for

the installation type you selected. To continue with the setup further, click on ‘Yes.’



On this form, select where you wish to install software.

It is recommended that you keep the default setting and click on Next button.



To place program shortcuts, keep the default settings on this screen.

Click Next to continue.



On this screen, the setup program will scan your computer and determine which additional components will

be required to be installed prior to installing ASI Point of Sale.

Some of the components required to run the software correctly will be downloaded and installed once you

click on the Install button. After you click on Install button, the setup will download and install other

components such as MS SQL Express and Crystal Reports run time modules. This process will take several

minutes depending upon your Internet speed. The progress will be shown on the screen.

Note: If you do not have internet connection or your internet connection is not good, please click on Cancel to

cancel this installation and run full setup from the CD provided by ASI.



After successful installation you will see the following screen. Click on Finish to complete the installation. Next

step would be to configure your property so that you can create and configure your departments, centres,

taxes and so on.

ASI Point of Sale Configuration.



After the proper installation of the ASI Point of Sale, you can find this shortcut for the same placed on the desktop.

Double clicking on it will redirect you to the Configuration wizard if opening for the first time..

The following welcome screen will appear when you open the ASI POS for the first time

.

Please read the above text and click on the Next button to continue.



The fields on this form are for how you would like the fields to be displayed. For example, in the USA each

state is called “State” while in Canada they are called “Province”. So for Canada, you would want to replace

default value of State to Province. Please click on NEXT button once you are done with making all changes.

Note: You will enter several values within the steps of this Wizard. If you are not sure about certain values,

don’t worry. You will be able to change these values any time after completion of this Wizard. All configuration

settings can be changed as many times and any time.



On this form, please add all property related information requested. Please note that all information entered

here will be displayed on reports and notifications to your guests and vendors.

You can also add a logo for your property. This logo will be printed on folios and reports.

Please click on NEXT button once you are done making changes to this form.



Here you need to create the departments prevailing at your POS station.

Click on the Next >> button to continue.



In this form, you will specify all the departments present at your place such as the Restaurant, Bar, Gift Shop

etc..

Please click on NEXT button once you are done adding up the departments.



Here you need to assign the centre’s to the respective departments.

Please click on NEXT button once you are done assigning the centre’s to their departments..



Here, you will select a date from which you want to start the POS activities at your place.

Please click on NEXT button once you are done making changes to this form.



By default we give you the standard Units in the list here. But incase you need to add your own Units, you can

as shown above.

Please click on NEXT once you are done adding up the Units.



You will create all the Item groups here.

Please click on NEXT button once you are done adding up all the item groups.



Incase of a Restaurant operation, you will create the tables here in the above form.

Please click on NEXT button once you are done adding them.



Now here you will assign the created tables to the respective POS centers.




Here you will enter the names of the Waiter/Waitress.




Click on the FINISH button to end up with the Configuration part.



PROPERTY INFORMATION:

This form, wherein you can fill out your property/hotel/motel/restaurant information opens

up when you click on the Property Information in the Property Menu.

The information filled up here gets displayed on the Reports and also on the Receipts

printed.

You can add up your property logo as well which gets displayed over all the reports.

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BACKUP DATABASE:

Clicking on the ‘Backup’ button will start the backup process and will make a backup file on the specified location.

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