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Download Notes through Update 2000-92C.2

The latest download will update The Uniform Solution to the version 2000-92C.2. The program download does NOT contain an update to the Vendor Catalog, but the full program download does. You must be running Version 1996 - 24A or higher to install this update. Windows (3.x or 95/98) is required to perform the update, and the update is password protected.

2000 Feature Enhancements
Listed below are links to the feature enhancements to The Uniform Solution through version 92C.2. Descriptions of the features and how to utilize them in the program are organized per version release. Click on a program version number below to go directly to the feature enhancements for that version.


Version 92C.2
Version 91C.2
Version 90C.2
Version 89C.2
Version 88C.2
Version 87C.2
Version 83C.2

Version 81C.2
Version 80C.2
Version 79C.2
Version 78C.2
Version 77C.2

Version 76C.2
Version 74C.2
Version 72C.2
Version 71C.2
Version 68C.2
Version 67C.2

1999 Feature Enhancements

Listed below are links to the feature enhancements added during the 1999 calendar year. Descriptions of the enhancements and how to utilize them in The Uniform Solution are organized per version number.


1999 Feature Enhancements

Version 92C.2
Description

Receiving Report

This version enables the Receiving Report to be run for one or all stores. The receiving report prints a listing of all items received between a date range, and totals the report when done.

 

Version 91C.2
Description

Added Portable Data Terminal feature

If you enter portable=qty in the Uniform. ini file, it allows you to scan an item and enter a quantity amount when using the portable data terminal. Call us for more details on this feature.

 

Version 90C.2
Description

Vendor Sales Report

Changed the Vendor Sales Report to break on a different style.

Added Multiple Vendor Account Numbers by Store Added vendor code, store number (i.e., Lan2=34red). The equal sign, account number and this number will print on a PO when a PO is created for the store. The option is given when printing a Vendor PO to select the store to use as the ship to.
User Access Levels Changed the default user access levels for better safety from employee theft. Access level 1 can print tags, Access level 3 required for changing inventory levels.



Version 89C.2
Description

Added Sales By State Report

A Sales by State Report has been added under Reports > Standard Reports > Sales Reports > 13. Sales by State Report. The report lists a summary of all sales created during a selected range of dates sorted by the state of the customer.

Added Printing Customer Ship Label from within Customer Form You can now print a customer shipping label from within the customer form. Press Ctrl+P and a label prints if you have the ship port defined.


Version 88C.2
Description

Program Fix

Corrected the Sales PO to properly handle multi-location ordering.

Program Fix Fixed a problem with Sales PO creation and multiple stores. Corrected to use AutoCreate in the uniform.ini and all stores properly.


Version 87C.2
Description

Program Fix

Changed scan received items option from using the F6 hot key to use the F8 hot key. The F6 hot key is already the hot key for attaching notes to an item on the receiving list.

Pole Baud Rate Default

The Pole Baud Rate is no longer required as a setting in the Uniform.ini. By default the program will use a Pole Baud Rate of 9600 which is the requirement for most Poles manufactured in recent years. Some older Poles require a rate of 4800 which will need to be set in the Uniform.ini to override the program default (polebaud=4800). If you have a Pole currently installed and it is functioning you do not need to make any changes.

Remote Store Log In Safety Feature - Applies only to Multi-Store Users

There is a new Uniform.ini setting to prevent Remote Store locations from accidentally logging into the program as an incorrect location. In the Uniform.ini two setting are used in conjunction to auto-select the store that should be logged into. Enter into the Uniform.ini: store=2 and location=2 to automatically log all users into store 2 at this location.

Customer Balance

You can now check a Customer's account balance from the Total Sales Invoice screen when creating a sale. Press F10 to check balance.

Hospital Sales Report Modified

The Hospital Sales Report now provides you with the option to sort the report by Name or Invoice Number.

Payroll Deduction Periods

The number of pay period deductions is now saved for payroll deductions in the invoice record. The number of periods to deduct is entered on the Payroll Deduct Options screen during the totaling of the Sales Invoice.

Payroll Deduction Export

There is now an export function to export payroll deduction information for a selected customer. The payroll export is accessed by highlighting the desired customer and selecting Customer Reports while on the Customer List. Enter a desired date range and the program will collect information about every payroll deduction invoice created for the master account over the date range. The information is written in ASCII format and saved to Text file in the UNIFORM folder. It can be imported into any spread sheet program (i.e. Microsoft Excel). The information exported is date, customer name, invoice total and dollar value of each payroll payment (invoice total divided by # of pay periods).



Version 83C.2
Description

Can Now Print After Printing to Screen

The option to print after you have printed to screen is now working. Previously, this option did not work. If you send any program output to the screen rather than a printer, you can now press the Print button (or Alt+P) to send the output to the printer.

Fixed Printing of " on New Eltron Tag

The quote character (") as part of the style's information previously caused the new Eltron tag to skip some of the fields on the tag. This problem has been corrected.

Limit the Top 40 Sales Report to a Department

An option is now provided on the Top 40 Sales Report to limit the report to a single department. If this option is selected, a department is selected and the Top 40 report is tabulated for the selected department only.

Limit the Open Items on PO's Report to a Date Range The Open Items on PO reports can now be run for a range of dates. Only orders placed during the entered range of dates are evaluated for the report.
Limit the Receiving Report to a Date Range The Receiving Report can now be run for a range of dates. Only receiving lists posted during the range of dates are evaluated for the report.



Version 81C.2
Description

Sales PO Added

A new type of PO has been added to the system. You can now create a Sales PO from the Purchase Orders (New/Not Posted) section of the program.

A Sales PO is used to create a purchase order for each item sold, over a selected range of dates. You may create a Sales PO for all or one vendor and may include all or one inventory codes.

To create a Sales PO, press F6 from the Purchase Orders (New/Not Posted) screen.

If you have multiple locations, You can limit which store the program creates Sales PO's for by using the Autocreate=store # feature (added Version 58C.2).

Scan Received Items

You can now scan received items onto a receiving list in addition to the standard method for adding items to a receiving list. Once you have entered the information to create the receiving list, you can press F6 to scan received items.

To scan an item onto the receiving list, the item must still be on a posted PO. Once you have selected F6-Sales PO, you must specify the posted PO from which to scan items. Once the PO is selected, item barcodes can be scanned and then copied to a receiving list.

New Quick Add of Non-Standard Items to an Invoice

You can now quickly add a non-standard item to an invoice. When you are on the Sales Entry Screen, you can now enter a number with a decimal point (.) to indicate the cost of a non-standard item. The number entered is interpreted as the cost and a non-standard item with a description of MISC is added to the invoice. For returns, the program will recognize a negative sign (-) as a return item. the quick entry feature only works while in Quick Scanning Mode.

The F7-Non Standard option still functions with the only benefit being that you can specify the line item information of the item (i.e. vendor, style, color, size, and description).

Example: If you enter the value 12.00 in the barcode field of the sales entry screen and press <ENTER>, an item with the description MISC will be listed with a retail cost of $12.00. For a return, if you enter the value -12.00, the system will add an item with value (12.00), a return, to the invoice.



Version 80C.2
Description

Added Contract Sales Report

 

The Contract Sales Report summarizes the quantity, cost and retail price for each item sold on a contract. Summaries are provided for each contract and grand totals are provided at the end of the report.

When running the report, you are prompted for a report date. Contract summaries are calculated for the beginning of the current year through the date entered, and for the previous year (determined by the date entered). In a multi-store environment, the report can only be run for one store at a time.

**This report is only useful for those users that have the Contract Pricing and Quotes Module.



Version 79C.2
Description
New Tag Form Created for Tags Printed with the Eltron TLP 2642/2742

The default tag printed using the TLP 2642/2742 thermal tag printer has been modified with the following changes.

Store Name has been changed to print in black rather than in white with a black border.

Garment description is now printed on the tag. The description shown is the description listed for the item in inventory.

The new tag form is used by default. To print using the older tag format, the line tagform=garment must be added to the file UNIFORM.INI. Also, the tag form templates garment.ejf and/or compare.ejf must be loaded to the printer.


Version 78C.2
Description
Daily Report Repair

The daily report was repaired after changes were made in version 76C.2.

sccopies Functionality Added for Closing Special Orders The settings below were modified to also work when closing special orders.

scopies=# Sales Invoice Copies
sccopies=# Store Charge Invoice Copies
socopies=#
Special Order Invoice Copies
lcopies=# Layaway Invoice Copies
gcopies=#
Gift Certificate Invoice Copies

Where # represents the number of desired copies.
*** The above settings are entered in the files UNIFORM.INI.




Version 77C.2
Description
Hospital Sales Report Adjustment

The Hospital Sales Report has been changed to provide invoice detail sorted first by payment (as it already is) and then alphabetically by customer name.

Control # of Copies Printed for Sale, Special Order, Store Charge, Layaway, and Gift Certificate Invoices Rather than using the icopies=# INI setting (which prints the specified number of invoices regardless of invoice type), the following settings can be placed in the file UNIFORM.INI to set the number of copies to print for each specific type of invoice. These setting will override the icopies setting for the specified invoice type.

scopies=# Sales Invoice Copies
sccopies=# Store Charge Invoice Copies
socopies=#
Special Order Invoice Copies
lcopies=# Layaway Invoice Copies
gcopies=#
Gift Certificate Invoice Copies

Where # represents the number of desired copies.
Version 76C.2
Description
Program Adjustment

Made adjustments to the program regarding XTRACE error message when placing notes on a purchase order, report printing, and working in inventory.


Version 74C.2
Description
Program Fix

Fixed a problem with printing remaining open items on a Special Order, when partially closing a Special Order.

 

Version 72C.2
Description
Added point-of-sale override to Never Discount Item option

The never discount item option can now be overridden at the point-of-sale. After the item has been added to an invoice, highlight the desired item and select Change. Once on the Add/Update Item Form, you may press F10 to sell the item at a fixed price.

 

Version 71C.2
Description
Added the ability to block inventory items from being discounted A checkbox option has been added to the Inventory Style Form to provide the ability to stop inventory styles from being discounted. Enabling the option Never Discount Item will block any attempts at discounting the item at the point-of-sale. One exception, items on a contract will be discount according to the contract whether or not the option is enabled for the style.

 

Version 68C.2
Description
Fixed Quotes to Allow an Expiration Date in the Year 2000 The quotes portion of the Contract Pricing and Quotes Module is now Y2K Ready. The Expires date field on the Quote Entry Form now uses a four-digit year, allowing quotes to be created that can expire in the year 2000 or later.

 

Version 67C.2
Description
Add a Bill To Address on a PO that is Different than the Address of Store that Created the PO Added the ability to put a bill to address on a purchase order that is different that the store address that created the purchase order. This applies only to the vendor copy of the PO. To use this feature, add the setting pobillto=company and address information to the file UNIFORM.INI. Put the entire company name and address after the equals sign all on one line. Designate line breaks using a semicolon (;).

Example: pobillto=PDS;1778 N. Plano Rd.; Richardson, TX 75081
Program Fix - Finance Charge Date

Fixed finance charge date in line item notes to show the current date rather than the days since Dec. 28, 1800 (which is what it was showing).




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1999 Feature Enhancements
Feature Enhancement
Version
Description
Inventory Over Max Levels Report 65C.2 Added a new report Reports > Standard Reports > Inventory Reports > 13. Inventory Over Max Levels that provides a listing of all inventory items that are in stock at a level greater than the set maximum desired stock level. This report is used to locate over stocked items that are on reorder points.
Purchase Order Viewing and Tag Printing for Remote Locations in a Centralized Multi-Store Batch 65C.2

For locations running a Centralized Batch, the program has been modified to allow Remote locations to view the current list of outstanding purchase orders sent by the Central location. The purpose of this new feature is to allow remote locations to print out their own tags for current outstanding PO's that are for their location. An option is also provided to print a hard copy of a PO.

Note: If you do not have multiple locations or are running a de-centralized batch process, this feature does not apply to you.

Modified the Add UPC Numbers Function of the Vendor Catalog 65C.2 The Add UPC Numbers function (located in Maint > F2-VendorCatalog > Update Master Inventory > Add UPC Numbers) has been modified to continue the add UPC process even if a UPC bar-code is found to already be in use for another item (i.e. duplicate UPC code). The duplicate UPC barcode is skipped and and the process continues with the next item. In all previous versions, the process terminates after encountering a duplicate UPC.
New Feature Bug Fix 63C.2 Corrected an error to prevent inventory items assigned an inventory code that is set to 'do not allow ordering' from being automatically ordered when placed on a special order.
New Feature Bug Fix 63C.2 Fixed an error adding tags to the tag queue when adding them from a PO. If an item was removed from a PO, the quantity ordered is zero. A zero quantity in the tag queue would cause the tag printing procedure to break.
New Feature Bug Fix 63C.2 An error in the Open Specials Report was recognized and corrected.
Support for Larger Shipping Labels Added 60C.2 The program will now support printing on larger shipping labels. Standard US Postal Service mailing labels of size 4 1/2"(height) x 5"(width) may now be used to print shipping labels on a dot matrix printer. To enable the feature, add the line shiplabel=big to the Uniform.ini file located in the Uniform Folder on your computer.
New Feature Bug Fix 60C.2 An error with using Drop Ship ID for creating PO's was recognized and corrected. PO's created using this method were only bringing in the first item with the selected Drop Ship Id. All items with a selected Drop Ship Id are now brought into the PO.
Store Transfers 59C.2 The ability to create transfers has been added as part of the physical inventory module. Start by scanning the inventory items to transfer into Scan "Stock" Inventory. Once all items are scanned, close the physical item form and return to the physical inventory table. From the table, select the F2 -Transfer button located at the bottom of the screen. After pressing the button the transfer screen appears (show me). To complete the store transfer, select transfer, enter the number of the store the merchandise is coming from and enter the store number of the store to transfer to. After you have entered the required information, print and post the transfer list and clear the physical count*.

*Scanned item will remain in physical inventory until the count is cleared. You will need to clear the count to perform a new transfer or take a physical count. Once the count has been cleared, you can NO LONGER view the items transferred.
Make sure and print a hard copy before you clear the count.

**Transfers are for mulit-store systems only. If you are running a CENTRALIZED batch, ALL transfers MUST be performed at the CENTRAL location. If you are running a DECENTRALIZED batch, transfers only affect the inventory levels of the store performing the transfer (I.E. inventory can be transferred out of your store, but the store you are transferring to store must perform their own transfer in).
Scan Merchandise into Inventory 59C.2 The transfer feature may also be used to scan merchandise into stock for a store, rather than creating a receiving list. After scanning the desired merchandise press the F2-Transfer button. The transfer screen will appear (show me). Rather than selecting the transfer action, select the 'Add to Inventory' action. You will be required to enter the number of the store to which you are adding inventory. After you have entered the required information, print and post the items to add to inventory*.


*Scanned item will remain in physical inventory until the count is cleared. You will need to clear the count to perform a new transfer or take a physical count. Once the count has been cleared, you can NO LONGER view the items scanned into inventory.
Make sure and print a hard copy before you clear the count.
Scan Merchandise out of Inventory 59C.2 The transfer feature may also be used to scan merchandise out of stock for a selected store After scanning the desired merchandise press the F2-Transfer button. The transfer screen will appear (show me). Rather than selecting the transfer action, select the 'Subtract from Inventory' action. You will be required to enter the number of the store to which you are subtracting inventory. After you have entered the required information, print and post the items to subtract to inventory*.


*Scanned item will remain in physical inventory until the count is cleared. You will need to clear the count to perform a new transfer or take a physical count. Once the count has been cleared, you can NO LONGER view the items scanned out of inventory.
Make sure and print a hard copy before you clear the count.
Multiple Tag Copies 58C.2 It is possible to print multiple copies of tags in the TagQueue by adding the line TagCopies=Number of Tags to the Uniform INI file.
Alternate Vendor Store Account Numbers 58C.2 If your running decentralized multi-store operations, you may need the ability to enter a store account number for each vendor at each location. You can now accomplish this by adding the VendorCode=AccountNumber to the Uniform INI file.
Limit Stores When Automatically Creating PO's 58C.2 You can now add the INI file setting (AutoCreate=1, 3, 4) where 1, 3, and 4 are the stores that you want to limit creating purchase orders for during the AutoCreate process for all stores. Add the line AutoCreate to the UNIFORM.INI file and list the store numbers to include separated by commas. This feature will most likely be used only by multiple stores operating in a decentralized manner.
Removed Prices when using Print Order Detail 58C.2 Stopped the program from printing the retail and extended price when printing the items remaining from the original order below the actual items on the sales invoice. Some store customers were confused with the total on the invoice.
Ability to Print Invoice Detail on Hospital Sales Report Added 58C.2 Added the ability to print the detail for the hospital sales report. The report sorts by payment