Automate end of day procedures?

Posted by DoItUrSelfPlbg on January 2, 2008, 5:22 pm

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what is the proper prodedure for end of ay on workstations with POS and is
there a way to have this happen automatically end of the day?

Posted by convoluted on January 2, 2008, 5:51 pm

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A typical procedure for end of day is 1) enter opening amounts at beginning
of day (typically one day = one batch), 2) when store has closed, enter
closing amounts, then 3) print your z report - this closes the day's batch
and opens a new batch for the next day. - - each POS register has its own
batch to open/close - I don't believe that you can automate the end of day
procedure with RMS "out of the box" - maybe thru some custom programming
but this would sort of defeat the purpose of your end of day procedure, which
is to primarily reconcile your cash/tenders thru a manual count - hope this
helps....

"DoItUrSelfPlbg" wrote:

> what is the proper prodedure for end of ay on workstations with POS and is

> there a way to have this happen automatically end of the day?

Posted by John M. on January 3, 2008, 11:20 am

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Also don't forget to "settle" your credit cards.

All of this is stuff "within" RMS to do - and as stated before, are
really procedures to follow - no automation possible. Then after that
you can do automation to do backups. You could either have one icon
you click on to kick off the commands, or have it scheduled with
windows task scheduler.

I have an icon they click (life boat) that kicks off a .bat file that
does an SQL backup of the RMS database; then zips the backup for size
reasons, then copies the zip file to 2 other networked systems as
backup.

--
John F. Murray
Customer Information - Business Analyst
Montgomery, AL

===============================

>A typical procedure for end of day is 1) enter opening amounts at

>beginning

> of day (typically one day = one batch), 2) when store has closed,

> enter

> closing amounts, then 3) print your z report - this closes the day's

> batch

> and opens a new batch for the next day. - - each POS register has

> its own

> batch to open/close - I don't believe that you can automate the end

> of day

> procedure with RMS "out of the box" - maybe thru some custom

> programming

> but this would sort of defeat the purpose of your end of day

> procedure, which

> is to primarily reconcile your cash/tenders thru a manual count -

> hope this

> helps....

> "DoItUrSelfPlbg" wrote:

>> what is the proper prodedure for end of ay on workstations with POS

>> and is

>> there a way to have this happen automatically end of the day?

Posted by sbtc on January 5, 2008, 11:58 pm

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John,

Would you mind sharing the .bat file that you use to automate backups?

Thanks,
John

"John M." wrote:

> Also don't forget to "settle" your credit cards.

> All of this is stuff "within" RMS to do - and as stated before, are

> really procedures to follow - no automation possible. Then after that

> you can do automation to do backups. You could either have one icon

> you click on to kick off the commands, or have it scheduled with

> windows task scheduler.

> I have an icon they click (life boat) that kicks off a .bat file that

> does an SQL backup of the RMS database; then zips the backup for size

> reasons, then copies the zip file to 2 other networked systems as

> backup.

> --

> John F. Murray

> Customer Information - Business Analyst

> Montgomery, AL

> ===============================

> >A typical procedure for end of day is 1) enter opening amounts at

> >beginning

> > of day (typically one day = one batch), 2) when store has closed,

> > enter

> > closing amounts, then 3) print your z report - this closes the day's

> > batch

> > and opens a new batch for the next day. - - each POS register has

> > its own

> > batch to open/close - I don't believe that you can automate the end

> > of day

> > procedure with RMS "out of the box" - maybe thru some custom

> > programming

> > but this would sort of defeat the purpose of your end of day

> > procedure, which

> > is to primarily reconcile your cash/tenders thru a manual count -

> > hope this

> > helps....

> >

> > "DoItUrSelfPlbg" wrote:

> >

> >> what is the proper prodedure for end of ay on workstations with POS

> >> and is

> >> there a way to have this happen automatically end of the day?

Posted by Doug Pic-N-Pac on January 7, 2008, 9:37 am

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Yes please share that bat file John :)

"sbtc" wrote:

> John,

> Would you mind sharing the .bat file that you use to automate backups?

> Thanks,

> John

> "John M." wrote:

> > Also don't forget to "settle" your credit cards.

> >

> > All of this is stuff "within" RMS to do - and as stated before, are

> > really procedures to follow - no automation possible. Then after that

> > you can do automation to do backups. You could either have one icon

> > you click on to kick off the commands, or have it scheduled with

> > windows task scheduler.

> >

> > I have an icon they click (life boat) that kicks off a .bat file that

> > does an SQL backup of the RMS database; then zips the backup for size

> > reasons, then copies the zip file to 2 other networked systems as

> > backup.

> >

> > --

> > John F. Murray

> > Customer Information - Business Analyst

> > Montgomery, AL

> >

> > ===============================

> >

> > >A typical procedure for end of day is 1) enter opening amounts at

> > >beginning

> > > of day (typically one day = one batch), 2) when store has closed,

> > > enter

> > > closing amounts, then 3) print your z report - this closes the day's

> > > batch

> > > and opens a new batch for the next day. - - each POS register has

> > > its own

> > > batch to open/close - I don't believe that you can automate the end

> > > of day

> > > procedure with RMS "out of the box" - maybe thru some custom

> > > programming

> > > but this would sort of defeat the purpose of your end of day

> > > procedure, which

> > > is to primarily reconcile your cash/tenders thru a manual count -

> > > hope this

> > > helps....

> > >

> > > "DoItUrSelfPlbg" wrote:

> > >

> > >> what is the proper prodedure for end of ay on workstations with POS

> > >> and is

> > >> there a way to have this happen automatically end of the day?

> >