February 2010
Objectives
Importance of housekeeping in Shoper 9 POS Functionalities of Housekeeping menu in Shoper 9 POS When to use what functionality Guidelines and best practices to be followed for housekeeping
Importance of housekeeping
Maintenance is an important function in software applications In Shoper 9 POS, all relevant housekeeping activities are provided under the Housekeeping menu Housekeeping in Shoper 9 POS helps you to: o Manage the data o Configure Shoper 9 POS to communicate with other POS and Shoper HO o Import and Export data as per business requirement o Perform Day End and Day Begin operations
Manage Data
Helps to: Take backup of business information to safeguard data from disasters such as hardware crash, virus attack, power fluctuation, etc. Restore backup for re-installation and migration. Reduce the size of the database. Remove the unused data from database, so that the performance of software and hardware is intact. Delete Backup files according to parameter setup.
Communication
In a chain store setup consider the following details for synchronisation between Shoper 9 POS and Shoper HO o Configure Sync Setup o Sync Manually with HO o Obtain status of synchronisation
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Note: On executing the Truncate Log the SQL log backup is deleted. Use this option only when the size of the SQL logs are large.
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o Status Report Provides the status of synchronisation and acknowledgements of the synchronisation process between Shoper 9 POS and HO(s).
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Replication Export (AST) Used to create replication data files, for a given period, to be exported to Shoper HO in addition to the file sent by the Day End program.
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Thank You
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