Forum: MarketPlace Showcase


Subject: Easy Merchant Accounting Utility (preview)

cybia opened this issue on Jul 31, 2004 ยท 8 posts


cybia posted Sat, 31 July 2004 at 12:28 PM

For those who haven't yet read about this in the admin forum recently, I thought I'd mention it here and post a few screenshots ...

This started out as a very basic utility to help me keep track of sales from my Renderosity Store, without having to bother with a spreadsheet or full accounting package. All it does is to store upto 50 product names and prices then automatically calculates the totals for you, based on the number of sales you select. A handy time-saver.

I decided to add a few additional features and release it as freeware, so that other merchants could make use of it if they wanted. It won't suit everyone though but it's a good place to start if you have a small selection of products for sale and don't have any experience with accounting software!

There is now a "Transfer Page" added so that you can copy the current running total to a "month" box, plus it automatically compiles a plain text file report containing the number of sales from each product, price details, and total amounts made during that month. You can view the reports for each month at any time plus copy the text to clipboard, etc.

The "Settings Page" allows you to modify colors for a selection of the interface controls, so you can set them to your own preferences. You can also change the text in the program's titlebar and choose from 3 currency display formats (Dollars, Pounds and Euros).

The program is not quite finished yet but I hope to have a new beta released in the next few days for you to try out. If anyone has any suggestions for other features they'd like to see incorporated then please feel free to let me know. I can't promise I'll be able to include them all as I'm not much of a programmer, but I'll do my best anyway!

Steve


cybia posted Sat, 31 July 2004 at 12:29 PM

Just some more screenshots of the other pages, reduced in size here ...

Dizzie posted Sat, 31 July 2004 at 1:54 PM

I think you've done a terrific job!


BonBonish posted Sat, 31 July 2004 at 3:32 PM

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Ardiva posted Sun, 01 August 2004 at 2:58 PM

Looks good, cybia.



BonBonish posted Wed, 04 August 2004 at 11:46 PM

It looks great cybia, where we can find that product?


cybia posted Thu, 05 August 2004 at 1:22 PM

I hope to get it finished for release this coming weekend with any luck. I will submit it to the Freestuff section and also post a new message in the forums giving a direct download link. Hope you find it handy anyway! Steve


BonBonish posted Thu, 05 August 2004 at 1:55 PM

Steve, thanks for the answer! I hope also :).... Have a wonderful day, take care, Bonbonish