Hello boys and girls My friend bought Sam4s sps-2000 for his shop, which will be selling various food products and fresh meat. As he knew that I can help him with the cashiers (got some knowledge how to use ezPower POS13) he asked me to program this cashier for him.

He bought this cashier from sbsinfo website, and they provided him a easy programming guide. My friend him self tried to play around with that cashier, and managed to f%$c some settings. So I've did a hard reset (holding the power button and erasing all the data)

Can anyone throw a guide, how should I program it for a small shop? He gave me a manual which is like 100 pages, and will take some time to read everything.

Main things he needs to know is:

*PLU control (Adding stock, printing reports daily/weekly - to know how much he earned in that day (For example he buys 100 chewing gums for a wholesale price which is 30p and sells it for 60p, (he needs to see how much profit he made on that day))
* How to add/check stock

Im playing with that cashier at the moment. Learned how to add PLU, change its description, but dont know where should I add how much stock do I have at the moment.

Another problem which I cant sort my self out, how do I print a cheque? He said that the printer was working fine before the reset. Do I need to config something? RCPT ON/OFF on the main screen does not work??

Thanks for anyone who is willing to help me!

Ok, I will try to ask one thing per time ) (sorry for my bad English by the way).

I've got SAM4S Ellix 20II printer connected, just run some tests but cant understand anything in it (It says BAUD RATE is 19200) Just dont know where should I change it..

Sorry Andy to make you nervous

Hi Albanco
You don't make me nervous - rotweillers, spiders and taking the wife shopping make me nervous but not programming tills!

There is no way that your friend ever had a cheque printed off a helix20 - it uses heat to print not ink - so unless banks change the paper that cheques are written on - you never will either

If you have managed to ram clear this machine, before you spend hours on anything else, please make sure that you have set the memory allocation to suit the type of environment that the machine is going to be used in - getting this wrong is devastating - any changes to the memory allocation program will result in the loss of everything else - get it right first before any other programming.

look at which port the printer is plugged into and set the port parameters to match the printer
next set the printer routing and test it - once that is done, you can start adjusting the keyboard layout on the touch screen to suit and cashire names [hoped you asked her her name before playing with her? ]and sign on numbers

once the machine is configured in the way that you want, THEN AND ONLY THEN start adding products - no-one i know adds stock at the very start as it all goes to cock the first [and second and third ] time you mess up getting used to the new machine.

suggest a period of use -say up to the next stock take before entering stock quantities!

I've managed to change the settings for PLU stock. Could not add stock, because in PLU status group, it asked "STOCK PLU?" Thats why I couldnt add more stock to it.
Will get my head wrapped up with this stuff sooner or later

Which scales do you recommend to buy for all this setup?

Found the MEMORY ALLOCATION tab (finally! )
1. # OF PLU is set to 1000, so if it will be a 2000 in future, I cant change it to bigger value?

Andy, do you have any manuals or guides for this thing? I would really appreciate it

The manual doesn't help much, its all there on the screen - pretty much self explanatory.
depending on the type of shop its going to be used in - this determins the memory allocation.
if for instance its going to a restaurante, 1000 plu is fine, more memory would be needed for such things as window look ups and table numbers
items per check etc
in a shop, you would soon eat into 1000 plus so i would up that to 10,000 you dont need table tracking so change check type to hard reduce number of checks, wlus and clerks
remove clerk interrupt and increase mix and match [or is it called promotion tables on that till?]to 99
Play about with these settings to optimise the number of plus available
i believe that the cas pd2 has been approved by weights and measures for use with the 2000
dont forget to set up the baud rater for the comms port that you are going to attach it to
this brings me back to the hyroglyphics on the printer - thats almost certainly a mismatch in the baud rate for com1 in an earlier post you said that the printer was set to run at 19200?
then set the comms port to 19200 too and set the device tab to printer.
i think that you have bitten off way more than you can chew with this little project - suggest you advise your friend to get his local dealer in to go through it with him
where are you located?

Thanks again Andy. We are located in cambs, dont really know are there any dealers around which can help us. How much they usually charge for full programming?

have sent you a pm