| 1. Jewelry | Enter the range of starting and ending category numbers for jewelry. |
In Louisiana, the third field denotes whether jewelry may be C=combined with a three month loan or S=separate with a six month loan.
The last field is the number of days after the due date when jewelry loans may be pulled if they are separate.
APS software "knows" what state it is in by the use of the version number on the first parameter screen.
| 2. Time clock | This option lets the store owner require the employees to "clock in" before entering a transaction. Enter either Y=yes or N=No. |
3. Max. Amounts for loan amounts
Fields 3 through 12 are used to break down loan amounts to be used in the loan analysis routine in the Display / Print menu. In the example above field no. 4 has a value of 400. This means, total all the loans that have a dollar amount greater than 120 (field 3) and less than or equal 400 in the field 4. In this example, the store makes a maximum loan of $1,200 (field 5). So the fields 6 through 12 will not be printed on the report.
13. Loans are by Day or Month
Enter either a M=Month or D=Days.
14. Number of days in a loan 30
If the previous field was a D=Days, then enter the number of days here. in a Year 360. Enter either 360 or 365 depending upon the way your state calculates loans.
15. Loan No. started over
When the loan numbers have reached a point where they need to be started over at a lower number, change this field to a Y=Yes, from a N=No. This field is used by the loan drop routine to "know" where to look in the loan file for loans that may be pulled.
Lost Ticket
Always ask the operator during a loan payment or renewal if the pledgor has lost their ticket.
Loan on pulls
When the loan pull routine is executed, are the loan amount to be printed on the pull list.
Keep Items
When a loan is W=Written from a previous loan, normally the items are only kept on the screen when the loan was redeemed. this option will allow the operator to keep the loan items even though the loan was not paid.
16. Sales No. started over
When sales transaction numbers are started over at a lower number then change this field to a Y.
Qty LT sale
This option is used to control inventory quantity on sales. If the option is set to Y=yes then even though the quantity in inventory is less than the quantity being sold the system will allow the transaction to proceed.
17. Purchase No. started over when the purchase numbers are started over at a lower number then change this field to a Y.
Option
Enter either an N=now or L=Later. The purchase transaction is saved for a "Later" pull routine with the "L". The "Now" option says that when a purchase is run, ask the operator if the purchase transaction is to be put in Receipts for inventory Now or saved for Later.
Days Enter the number of "hold" days for purchase transactions.
Last Enter the number of the last purchase transaction that was pulled.
18. Fiscal year begins on MMDD
Enter the month and day a new fiscal year starts.
19. Backup use VCR or Streamer
This is a backup option only used on MINI computers which are not being used anymore. The value entered does not matter.
20. Customer profile months
Enter the number of months that should be used to accumulate a customer profile. For example if a 6 is entered then only the last six months data will be used.
21. Local Police store code
Number assigned by local police for automated transfer of pawn tickets. See fields 22 and 30.
22. Loan transfer format
Transfer format for police department. There are two data fields in the option. The first one designates where A=All the loan or purchase information is to be transferred or I=Items only without the customer demographics.
The second field is the format of the data, at the bottom of the screen will be a display of the valid entries. See fields 21 and 30.
23. ATF 4473 margins
The Top, Left, and Bottom margins for the 4473.
24. Layaway bulk number for payments 000
Use this number to show that the layaway has a bulk message in the sale that designates the payment amount and frequency. This will print on the layaway reminders as "Your agreed payment schedule is ..........."
25. Use backup file
If a backup task is to be spawned during the nightly backup routine answer Y=yes.
| Name | Enter the name of the BAT routine that is to be executed to started the spawned backup routine. |
26. Timer:
Scrns, enter the number of seconds before a program screen "times out".
Tickts, enter the number of seconds before a sales slip times out. If the sales slip "times out", the system will assume a "Y" to the slip or ticket saying that the it printed correctly
Main, this option requires a Yes, No response. It asks if the Main Menu Window should time out and automatically close.
NOTE, that the time out may be suspended for an additional 10 minutes by holding the Control key down and pushing the "S" at the same time. This will allow time to clear a jammed printer. It may be done multiple time.
| 27. Jewelry | The Jewelry option controls whether the small (2 x 3/8 inch) dumbbell/butterfly labels are to be printed. The options for this field are: |
N = No, if jewelry labels are not to be printed on a label printer.
Y= Yes print the labels on continuous form Okidata dot matrix printers.
S = Single jewelry label with bar code on DYMO form 30373
The following options are not supported anymore and should be discontinued:
2 = 2 Labels, text only per “form” on the DYMO form 30299
B = Barcodes and text on the DYMO form 30299
Enter the name of the jewelry printer.
Left margin characters, enter the number of spaces to move the image to the right on the form.
Enter by groups of three, the ASCII characters to control the printer. An ESCape key is a 27 decimal so enter it as”027”. Fill the remaining spaces with zeros if they are not used.
Cost code and Manufacturer combined, enter either Y=Yes, or N=No, or C=Combined. The maximum characters that will be printed are 12.
Model to be printed, enter Y=Yes or N=No. If the previous choice was a Y=Yes, then the manufacturer may be selected in this field with an “F”. The maximum number of characters that will print is 8.
28. ATF 4473 Esc Codes
Enter in decimal the ASCII control values to set the 4473 printer to 12 cpi and 8 lpi in the four numbers. Enter a zero if the field is not needed.
29. Transfer method
In a PC environment use the I=Immediate option. This says to the “Create transfer file for Police” routine, that the transfer file is to be created in the directory defined in field 30. The other options are not supported.
30. PC directory
Enter the device and folder on the PC where the Police transfer, ATF, and reports “printed” to disk are to be created (see fields 21 and 22). The folder should be shared across a network, so that any workstation has permission to write to it. Examples are:
\\MAINPC\LEADS\
If APS is running as a single user environment then using the “C:\” may be used:
C:\LEADS\
31. Language Enter either a E=English or S=Spanish
| Date format | Enter either M=MM/DD/YY or D=DD/MM/YY, this defines how dates are to be entered. In Mexico the "D" is used. |
