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| The Newsletter for Scrap Dragon users www.scrap-dragon.com
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| From The Editor Check out the new features that we have added to Scrap Dragon, and as always, we are grateful to those customers that have given us the suggestions and feedback that we need to keep Scrap Dragon on the cutting edge. |
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Dragon Support You can continue to e-mail routine questions to [email protected] and don't forget that many of your questions can be answered by searching our Knowledge Base at www.scrapdragon.net. Providing you with the best possible training and support continues to be our number one goal. |
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This year, our customer appreciation cocktail party will be held on Tuesday, April 17th from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Eye Candy Lounge, which is located in the casino of the Mandalay Bay hotel. Come as you are and have a drink on us. |
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We have now added support for delivery trailers, which has been a requirement in Florida for some time. This took more than a little effort and you will see some differences in the data entry screens for delivery vehicles. Like the delivery vehicles, you will be able to save the delivery trailer with the ticket and with the customer. Trailers are listed with other delivery vehicles, but use the body style of Trailer. With direct access from the Edit Details screen, it is now even easier to maintain the customer's delivery vehicles. Florida also requires that you report any identifying marks on the customer and we have now added a field for you to enter this. Both the identifying marks and the delivery trailer will now print on the FDLE report. Some new ordinances have put a limit on the amount of money that can be paid to a customer in a single day. Since many customers bring in scrap several times a day, there has not been an easy way for you to comply with this requirement. Now, the previous payments for the day are displayed in the payment screens. For purchased vehicles, you are required to enter the VIN, Make, Model and year of the vehicle. To make it easier to comply with these requirements we are now able to decode and update these fields from the VIN number that you enter. We already supported the ability to print signatures on scale tickets and receipts for our customers that use our Topaz signature pads. We have now extended that feature to include reprinted tickets and receipts. We have also added the ability to include a thumbprint on these documents for our customers that use the USB Crossmatch Verifier, but the feature will not work with the Ethernet model. South Carolina and Texas now require that a certificate be kept on file for a customer certifying that they are permitted to sell certain items of scrap metal. We can now accommodate that requirement in Scrap Dragon and Jpegger. Scrap Dragon will allow entry of the certificate number and expiration date, and if you have a suitable document scanner, you will be able to scan the certificate into Jpegger and associate it with the customer. |
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We recommended the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 for this because it has a straight through paper path that can handle a rigid driver's license without getting stuck, and it is cheaper than the S1500. The unit worked great and the customer was pleased with the solution. We liked the idea so much we decided to support one time license scanning with the same ScanShell 800r that we use for adding customers to the customer file. If you have a ScanShell scanner, you will now be able to scan in licenses from the Ticket Info screen and the license image will be stored in jpegger with the other images for the ticket, but without doing any OCR. Thanks Chris! |
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| Automatically save documents to JPEGger without scanning Just check the PDF box in Local Computer Options next to Scale Ticket, Cashier Receipt, or Remittance Advice and that document will be automatically saved to jpegger as a PDF document at the same time that it is printed to your printer. This process happens very quickly in the background and without physically scanning the document! If you are using a signature pad, and you have a custom form with the customer's signature and/or thumbprint on the form, then the PDF document that gets saved into Jpegger with the ticket will also have the signature and/or thumbprint on it. Likewise, check the PDF box in the Checking Account setup screen in Program Options and a PDF copy of every check will be automatically saved to jpegger with the ticket at the same time that it is sent to your printer. This feature requires JPEGger version 2.0 or later. |
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| Is your inventory out of control?
In our latest version, we have again added some new features that we think will make your life easier. In scrap buying, when adding non-auto purchased items directly to inventory, both in the Edit Details screen and the Edit Paid Ticket screen, the Add to Inventory button now opens the Inventory Pack screen. This allows you to add the pack to inventory using any button and description that you choose. Previously, all inventory moves had to be entered in the back office. Now, we have added a touch-screen enabled, scale connected, Move Inventory screen to the main inventory menu. This will allow you to enter inventory movements from your warehouse kiosk. Use of this screen is restricted, and will only be available to those users with the proper clearance. Because we have seen so many customers that are not rolling their inventory balances on a monthly basis, the system will now issue a warning if you haven't rolled the inventory in 60 days. Preparing your data for the inventory roll will now be easier as the inventory pre-roll will produce a report of inventory items with negative balances. The dreaded Numeric Overflow errors will no longer display or stop the inventory reports or processes. This will make it easier to find and eliminate items with badly distorted average costs. These distortions are almost always a result of allowing the computer inventory on hand to go negative. An obvious example of the model not matching reality; we have yet to see any real negative inventory in a srap yard! We have added another 'drill down' button to the Inventory Status screen that will produce a report of shrunk and unshrunk MTD purchases. This will make it easier to see what commodities make up the inventory purchases that are displayed on this screen. |
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The latest releases of Scrap Dragon are always available for download
from our web site at www.scrap-dragon.com/download.htm,
or by clicking 'Updates' on the Help menu in the Back Office module
of Scrap Dragon. There are always 2 versions of the update available.
The new features described herein are currently only available in the
Beta release, version 6.6 which has had limited distribution.
If you prefer a version that has been more widely installed, then select
version 6.5L. All known bugs have been fixed
in version 6.5L. While at the download site, also download
the latest on-line help file DragonHelp.chm. Our newsletters can only
highlight the most significant new features, but there are many more
enhancements in each new release. Click here for the complete list of features that have been
added in each version. You are entitled to get all of our upgrades as a benefit of your maintenance contract, so why not download and install them today? Please call if you have any questions or need any help upgrading. |
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Keeping
control of your inventory seems to be one of the hardest things to do
in the scrap metal business. Maintaining a computerized model of your
inventory can be a nightmare of upgrades, downgrades, category shifts,
evaporation, shrinkage, substitutions and negative balances. While we
have designed Scrap Dragon to be a very simplified model, it still requires
a consistent effort to make our model
match your reality. We are constantly trying to make
that process easier based on the feedback that you give us.
We
still have a few Panasonic Toughbook Wireless Monitors available. These
cool little handheld devices are discontinued and our supply is dwindling.
Much smaller and lighter than the wireless computers that have replaced
them, they work well with Scrap Dragon and are durable enough for use
in a scrap yard. Unfortunately, Panasonic has phased them out and in
fact will not be releasing a driver for use with the Windows 7 operating
system. Consequently, we are closing out our remaining supply of new
units at 40% off the $2,000 list price. We also have a few lightly used
'demo' units available for 50% off. For more info, download the 
• Added field in Contract
Maintenance to designate that material is for overseas export.
• Purchase report 21 –
added the ability to select by commodity group
