Easy Money Address Book and Financial Manager Disclaimers =========== Easy Money is SHAREWARE. The Demo version may be freely exchanged with other users as long as all original unmodified files are included. The Registered version is available for $ 15.00 (US Funds Only) from: Mountain Software 6911 NE Livingston Road Camas, Washington 98607 Easy Money is Copyright 1995 by Anthony Watson, all rights reserved. Any unauthorized duplication or modification of the program(s), documentation, or security keys is a violation of federal copyright laws! While Mountain Software tries to produce the most compatible and bug free software available, neither Mountain Software nor the author (Anthony Watson), make any claims as to the safety, reliability, or compatibility of this software to yourself, your system, or your software. The user assumes all risk when operating this product! System Recommendations ====================== - Any Atari ST, STe, TT or Falcon computer - 1 Meg RAM - Any Graphics mode (640x200 or greater) - Hard Drive - GDOS Installed if using print functions Introduction ============ Easy Money is a fully relational database with facilities for accounts, invoices, and transactions. Various search features are available to quickly analyze your records. While Easy Money is designed for business uses, it could easily be used to handle your personal accounts and expenses, or even as a basic address book. Easy Money was originally designed for Mountain Softwares internal use. We had specific requirements and preferences that we wanted in a business database. Easy Money was written to provide fast access and analysis of our customers names, addresses, purchases, etc. While we suspect that few users or small businesses will have the same requirements that we had, we are making this program available as Shareware. If you find the program useful, we would appreciate if you would register it with us, and that you include any comments you may have about the program. Accounts ======== The main menu is the account menu. This is where the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. are kept on your individual accounts. Accounts are added by clicking on the "Add" button and entering the desired information. Existing accounts can be edited by clicking twice on the desired account. Invoices ======== The invoice section is where you record the date, payment method, etc. of each order. It is also the only place you can add transactions. The invoice menu is accessed by clicking on the "Invoices" button at the main menu. Invoices are added by clicking on the "Add" button and entering the desired information. The date defaults to the current date, but may be edited if desired. The date format must be maintained if you want the invoices to be sorted by date. Once the basic invoice information is entered, a transaction menu will appear for that invoice. There you can add or edit the transactions for that invoice. Existing invoices can be edited by clicking twice on the desired invoice. Transactions for a specific invoice may be edited, by clicking once on the desired invoice, then clicking on the "Transactions" button in the invoices menu. Transactions ============ The transactions section is where you analyze the results of your income and expenses. The transactions menu is accessed by clicking on the "Transactions" button from the main (account) menu. Marking/Searching ================= All three sections (Accounts, Transactions, Invoices) feature powerful search features. The "Find" button starts a new search, and marks all records matching the search string. The "Narrow" button allows you to reduce the search parameters even further (For example, you may FIND those records matching a state name, and then NARROW the search down to those matching a specific city name). The "Widen" button allows you to widen the search parameter to include additional information (For example, you could add an additional city to the search above). Individual records may also be marked/unmarked manually, by clicking to the immediate left of each record. Each menu also has three selectable options for displaying marked accounts, invoices, and transactions. These allow you to "cross-reference" the various sections. For example, you may mark a specific name in the account menu, then move to the transactions menu and click on the "marked accounts" option. This would display all transactions pertaining to the account you marked. NOTE: Mark ALL records by doing a FIND for a space character or other commonly used character. Unmark ALL records by doing a FIND for a "qq" sequence or other characters known not to appear. Setup ===== The setup menu is where you enter various information on yourself or your company for invoice printouts. The left side of the menu displays a list of GDOS fonts. Fonts for the printable data and for the forms themselves are selected by clicking once on the desired font, then clicking the "Data Font" or "Forms Font" fields. These fonts are used for all printing operations in Easy Money. The top right of the menu contains the name and address fields for yourself or your company. Click on the desired fields to change them. The lower right is an .IMG format graphic that will be printed as a logo on your invoices. Click on the field display and then locate the desired graphic using the fileselector. Version/Contact Information =========================== The "Easy Money" selection in the menu bar provides information on the program version, your serial number, and full contact information for Mountain Software. If you have any questions or comments about this product, we would love to hear from you! Window Recentering ================== Should the Easy Money window get moved out of position, you may recenter the window by RIGHT clicking on the window title bar. Appreciation ============ As always, I would like to thank my wife Peggy for her love, support and patience, and my Lord Jesus Christ for my salvation. I'm thankful that Jesus walks with me each day, and that he forgives me when I stumble... About Easy Money ================ Easy Money was written by Anthony Watson using GFA Basic 3.5e and includes several assembly routines written and compiled with GENST. The Easy Money manual was written in Pen Pal, a shareware text editor from Mountain Software.