 Thank you for downloading ShopAssist®.
 
 ShopAssist® is a modern, user-friendly, Windows®-based
point of sale system for all types of business.  
 
ShopAssist® includes the following functionality:
 Cash sales
 C.O.D. sales 
 Account sales (debtors)
 Hire sales (for video rental stores) 
 Appro transactions
 Lay By transactions
 Stock Receiving
 Inventory Control
 Service Fees 
 Labour Charges 
 Suspend/Retrieve sale
 Item lookup by item description, item code, bar code, point and click, single keypress or Touchscreen
 Discounts on individual items, a sub-total of the sale or the sale as a whole
 Automatic discounts on selected items
 Netting of individual items
 Credit Notes
 Refunds
 Exchanges
 Detailed sales histories by item, cashier, salesperson, department, product category, supplier and manufacturer
 Stock On Hand by item, department, product category, supplier and manufacturer
 Top Sellers
 Slow Movers 
 Overstock, Low and Out Of Stock item reports

In addition to the above, ShopAssist® also features:
 Three  pricing levels, selectable automatically or at the click of a button
 Verification of stock availability
 Checking of reserved stock
 Matrix pricing (for clothing stores)
 Composite items
 Item re-ordering (automatic if required)
 Promotions - free items, department discounts, timed-specials and bulk discounts
 Support for product discount vouchers 
 Customer profiling
 Customer tracking
 Tender tracking - twenty tender groups, with floor limits and operator prompts for each
 Cheque verification
 Cashier statistics
 Over three hundred reports and charts to help you run your business
 Support for electronic cash drawers and pole display devices  
 Full network support - multiple terminals per server
 The ability for each terminal to run locally should the server go off-line
 Till messaging
 Full security - five levels of password protection for its various functions
 Multi-store support - consolidated sales, stockholding, branch orders. Data transfer by modem or disk.

 Cash book     
 Spreadsheet (Excel®-compatible) for cash book, budgeting, sales forecasts
 Repairs
 Loyal Customer Card
 Gift Vouchers
 Inter-branch transfers
 Banking
 Creditors
 Credit Requisitions (stock returns)
 Purchase Orders
 Stocktake (local and remote)
 Follow-up on out of stock items
  
 Notepad
 Sticky notes
 Calculator
 Markup Calculator
 Calendar Diary (Appointments)
 
 Charting 
 Telephone Number Database with modem dialler
 Trip Sheets
 Statement reconciliation
 Item Labels
 Shelf Labels
 Mailmerge
 Staff Register
 Full data backup facilities
 Utilities to verify and, if necessary, rebuild the ShopAssist® database
 Ability to watch other tills on the network

 Registration
 ShopAssist® is shareware. Until such time as it is
registered it will display a nag screen at start up time.

 Registration will remove the nag screen and entitle you
to one year's support by E-mail. (See the Help file for
details regarding the renewing of your support contract
and additional support options). The current registration
price is US $299.00. In order to register you will be
required to forward your computer's MACHINE ID. (available off
the Help menu) as well as your registration details to us,
and we will forward your USER REGISTRATION NUMBER on to you.
Payment may be made by credit card, bank draft or direct
credit into our account. (Please contact us by E-mail before
remitting funds by mail, or for our banking details should
you wish to make a direct transfer into our account).
The USER REGISTRATION NUMBER you will be provided with 
will enable you to use later releases of the software, 
which will periodically be made available on the popular 
shareware sites. Later releases of the software will be 
indicated by increments in the last two characters of the 
ZIP file name.

 (Registered users only:) Should your computer's configuration 
change in any significant way, the assigned USER REGISTRATION NUMBER 
will no longer be valid, and you will be required to apply
for a new USER REGISTRATION NUMBER at any of the addresses 
provided below. This new number will be issued no-charge,
at our sole discretion (maximum three times), provided that 
we are satisfied that the software is being run on the same 
computer and by the same registered purchaser of the software.
 
 We would appreciate it if you could notify us of any problems 
encountered or errors found. We would also appreciate comments 
(positive or negative) and suggestions for its improvement. 
We will attempt to respond to and, if possible, rectify or
implement, as many of these as possible.

 If you have found this product useful, please recommend 
it to friends and associates. 

 We may be contacted at any of the following:
  
 E-mail : mwivansm@iafrica.com  or shopassist@hotmail.com
 Web    : users.iafrica.com/m/mw/mwivansm/
 Mail   : ISC Point Of Sale Systems
           P.O. Box 16650
            Dowerglen
             1612
              South Africa
 Phone  : +2711833488859

 Disclaimer
 Although a great deal of effort has gone into the
preparation of this software, no liability whatsoever will
be accepted for any faults it may contain or any consequences
thereof.
 By proceeding with the installation, you agree to the above 
waiver of liability. If you do not agree, click the Cancel 
button to terminate the installation.


