$hopKeep
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Once $hopKeep is installed...

CRUCIAL
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Your default user name is: me
Your default password is: me

THE SECOND TIME YOU RUN $hopKeep, YOU WILL HAVE TO ENTER A USER NAME AND PASSWORD.  You can change the default user name and password ("me") by selecting the Tools menu, then selecting Passwords, and entering "me" in the user name and password fields, to access the Passwords grid.

IMPORTANT: Before taking an order
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It is MANDATORY to enter data into the Employees, Customers, and Products forms before trying to take an order.  It is also MANDATORY to enter details about a Shipper (select the Tables menu/Shippers).  Even if you won't be using a shipper, or don't have employees, enter default details (a name) anyway, because the details are necessary on the Orders form.
  
(ONE) METHOD OF USE
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If you run a small shop, what might be important to you is keeping track of your inventory, number of orders, and the finances generated from orders, rather than WHO ordered from you.  To use $hopKeep to help you take care of this, each day (or days in advance):

1. Using the Customers' form, enter the day's date as a customer name (and enter other required info, such as a customer ID).  

2. Open the Take Customer Orders form and select the "customer" (the current day's date) from the list of customers.  

3. Each time you take an order that day, select the item in the product list drop-down box and enter the number of items ordered.  If the same product is ordered more than once, no need to select the product in the drop-down box again; simply increase the number of items ordered the previous time.

By the end of the day, you would have recorded the number of products ordered that day, and the monies generated.  You could then view orders for a specific day, or range of dates, and other types of information, from the Orders Reports menu.


THE BOTTOM LINE
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$hopKeep is as flexable as your thoughts.  I hope it is of benefit to you!