Take An Order

Are you selling products at trade shows or expos? Taking orders from customers in their home or office? Submitting bids or issuing quotations in a field situation? Delivering product and need to issue a receipt? For all these situations and more, Take An Order! is the handheld tool you need. Combined with a Palm Computing platform handheld device like the Palm III, Palm V, IBM WorkPad, or SPT 1550/SPT 18xx from Symbol Technologies and a portable printer like the Canon BJC-50 or Citizen PN-60i, Take An Order! gives you an office that travels with you.

Take An Order! starts with your own product catalog, downloaded from your PC, with dozens, hundreds, or even tens of thousands of items. Select items from the catalog by scrolling down the list, or use our IntelliScroll (tm) technology to scroll right to the item you want just by tapping on the first letter of the item - no Graffiti (tm) required!

With a Symbol SPT 1550/SPT 18xx with its built-in bar-code scanner, it's even easier! Just point the scanner at the product, press the scan button, and the item is added to the order!

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	Once you've put together your order, quotation, or delivery report, you can refine it. Add a discount for the order from a pop-up list (you can even add positive "discounts" for "cost-plus" pricing), add tax or shipping as appropriate. Mark the order as a cash, check, or credit card sale, or as an quotation, invoice, or purchase order.
For credit card sales, you'll even get a popup form which lets you key in the customer's name, credit card number and expiration date so you don't need to carry a credit card imprinting machine. For sales by check or purchase order, the same form lets you record the relevant number.

If you're dealing with an existing customer base, just tap on the "Sold To" button and you'll see your entire Palm Address Book. Our unique IntelliScroll technology lets you scroll right to the name you're looking for without needing to use Graffiti. Just tap on the customer and their name and address is added to the receipt or quotation you'll be printing out. If that customer has a standard discount, the order will be automatically set to indicate that.

Ready to print? Just point your unit at an appropriate printer and away you go! Take An Order! is configured to print receipts (quotations, invoices, delivery reports) on plain paper (either full width or receipt printer paper), as well as on pre-printed forms which already have your company logo, terms and conditions, etc. for a more formal appearance. Take An Order! uses our PalmPrint software to do its printing, which means it will print via infrared (IrDA) and serial (or parallel) technology, and will print to a wide variety of printers - HP, Lexmark, Epson, Canon, Citizen, or any PostScript printer.

             Manufacturing Applications eXperts, Inc.
                      www.Manuf-apps.com
                         1-800-695-2277

Order#:  1000
Date:    10/19/98 1:32 pm
Sold to: John Smith
         General Widget Co.
         300 Main St.
         Cupertino, CA 95014
Payment: Purchase Order #345167


 #                  Description                    Price@ Total$
== =============================================== ====== ======
 5 PalmPrint                                        39.95 199.75
 5 Take An Order!                                   79.95 399.75
 2 SnailMailer                                      19.95  39.90
                                              Tax:        $19.77
                                            TOTAL:       $659.17

                    Thank you for your order!

At the end of the day, one tap and the day's sales are summarized and displayed and/or printed.

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