Setup

The following Screen will Appear

Fill in all the fields with the appropriate information. about your company.

The following fields are explained below

Tax Rate
Enter your local sales tax rate here, it will be added to taxable items on the invoices

Price Markup Factor
VIMACS uses this value to automatically calculate your selling price based on your cost when adding new items to inventory.  If you don't want VIMACS to calculate your selling price, you can disable this function in the Inventory setup and enter any selling price you want.

Inventory Discount
This discount will be applied to the selling price to all items when printing an invoice or receipt.  This is useful for retailers who have sales and wish to apply across the board discounts.  Its also useful for stores that show the suggested retail price, and then sell at an advertised discount.

Default Inventory Location
When a new item is added to Inventory, this information will be placed in the Location Field for that Item.  You can change the location for each item at anytime on the Inventory Screen.

Default Inventory Supplier
When a new item is added to Inventory, this information will be placed in the Supplier Field for that Item.  You can change the Supplier for each item at anytime on the Inventory Screen.

Invoice Options

Optional Text to Add to Bottom of Invoice
Enter a short message to be printed on the bottom of all your Invoices

In Inventory change the location to customers name when creating Invoices
When this box is checked, the location field in the inventory will change to the customers name.  This is useful if you are selling one of a kind type items and what a quick way to keep track of what happen to the merchandise.  You can always print out sales reports to see where merchandise went.

Add inventory Style to invoice descriptions
When this option is checked, the information entered in the Inventory Detail Style field will be printed on Invoices

Current Numbers

The current sequence number of the various documents are shown here.  These numbers will change as you create invoices, sales order, PO's etc. You don't have to change the numbers, they will increment automatically. If you wish to change the starting number you can change it here.  For example if you have a sales force on the road with notebook computers, you could assign different Invoice Starting numbers to each Salesman, such as Joe starts at 1000, Bob starts at 2000 and Jeff starts at 3000.  Note:  You can always change number when you create an Invoice or Item, these numbers are just created and entered automatically to make the job of  entering data easier for you.