 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
 Quotations
 Credit Notes
 Refunds
 Exchanges
 Stock Receiving
 Stock 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

 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
 Profit Generators

In addition to the above, ShopAssist® also features:
 Eight  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,
Bulk Discounts and Purchase With Purchase
 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 - up to two hundred terminals
per server
 The ability for each terminal to run locally should
the server go off-line
 Till messaging
 Five user-definable levels of  password protection for its
various modules and functions
 Multi-store support - consolidated sales, stockholding,
branch orders
 Inter-branch data transfer by modem or disk.

 Cash Book     
 Spreadsheet (Excel®-compatible) for cash book, budgeting
and 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
 Mark-up Calculator
 Calendar Diary (Appointments)
 
 Charting 
 Telephone Number Database with modem dialer
 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 registered, it will display
a nag screen at start-up and at random intervals when used
sixty times or more.
 Registration removes the nag screens and entitles you
(where applicable) to support by e-mail or phone.
 In order to register you will need to forward your computer's
Machine Id. (available off the Help menu)  as well as your
registration details on to us, Upon receipt of the
registration form and applicable registration fee
we will forward your User Registration Number on to you.
Payment may be made by credit card or directly into our account.
See Help file for payment details.

 Registration will allow you to use all later releases of the
software, upgrades to which are made available periodically
on our home page.
  
 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  : +27833488859

 Disclaimer
 Although a great deal of effort has gone into the preparation
of this software, the software is provided as is, and no liability
whatsoever will be accepted for any faults it may contain
or 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.
