Scanning In MASC
Masc is designed to work with
barcode scanning. There are 2 methods to use
1.
Product Barcodes
In this case you should add you
product barcode in the barcode field under each product in Stock Maintenance.
When syncing the handheld , click on the option the “Barcode Scanning” when you
have selected the route.
All products will be sent to the
handheld in Barcode order, the user can scan an item and sell as normal. All
products in your price matrix will also have the same barcode and will be
selected in the same way.
2.
No
Barcodes
In this scenario you must take
the following addition steps
a.
Under System Nominal Codes add
codes which will divide your product range for easy access , for example Code
1000 for Milk, 2000 for Butter / Cream ,3000 for Yoghurt etc.
b.
Under Stock , Product Maintenance
change the Sales nominal for each product which you have marked as “Download to
HH” to a suitable grouping.
c.
Download and install our barcode
label printing program from www.e-ms.ie/download/bcsetup.exe. This will be
installed in your c:\masc folder and will need to be relinked to your masc data.
You can check the current location in MASC, system – Relink Tables and note the
location of Group 2.
d.
You will have a shortcut on your
desktop to “Stock Barcodes”, When linked to your data click on “Label / ALL or
Filter Description”, a box will appear to filter the list but you can “OK”. Only
product linked to valid nominal codes will be listed. The list will be printed
by group for easy access by the van sales person.
e.
Sync the handheld and tick the
box for “Barcode Scanning”
f.
When starting a sale open the
barcode list report to the relevant page and scan the item and proceed as
normal.