© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 1 Barcode in Shoper 9 December 2009

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 2 Objectives  Need for Barcode in business  Shoper 9 support in creating and printing of barcodes o Design labels for Thermal and Standard Printers o Design layout for Standard Printers o Printing of Labels

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 3 Barcode  A set of machine-readable parallel bars varying in width, height or spacing.  Encodes information according to a symbology.  Provides accurate data.  Scanning the barcode makes data entry faster.  Manual entry error can be avoided.  Helps in quick billing, stock taking, physical stock verification, etc.

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 4 Need for Designing and Printing Barcodes  No barcode exists  Additional business specific barcodes required o Logo specific o Price change o Size specific o Additional product information

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 5 Barcode in Shoper 9 Why use Barcode in Shoper 9 ?  Features o Customer/ Printer specific label and layout design  Label content – Item information, Image, Date, etc. o Flexibility to configure  Font  Label size and Number of labels in a row/ page  For any stationery o Convenient  Barcodes for cartons o Affordable  Use existing/ any printer

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 6 Options available  Design Labels for Barcode Printers  Design Labels for Standard Printers  Design Layout for Standard Printers  Print Labels

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 7 Design Labels for Barcode Printers (Interface script files for Thermal Printers)  Create a basic template for barcode printing and specify the parameters to be considered while generating a barcode  The design is done collectively by Shoper support personnel, retailer and printer vendor  The base script files required to print the barcode labels are supplied by the barcode vendor in.txt file format  Make the required changes to it and save the settings

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 8 Designing Labels for Thermal Printers  To design o In POS: Stock > Barcode > Print Labels o In HO: Merchandise > Barcode > Print Labels  Import/ Load the Script file

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 9 Designing Labels for Thermal Printers  Map the Fields o Create an interface between Shoper 9 and the script file with field values captured in Shoper 9 A barcode tag can contain field values of type String, Integer and Text

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 10 Barcode Content and Configuration  String values o Stock number o. o Product description  Capture o The position and o The length of the string to be printed

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 11 Barcode Content and Configuration  Integer values o Rate o. o Tax rate  Capture o The position o the length of the Integer and o the number of decimals to be printed

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 12 Designing Labels for Thermal Printers  Text values o Showroom name o. o Address  Capture o The position o The length and number of digits and o Value of the Text  Save the settings made to the barcode script as a.txt file

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 13 Designing Labels for Standard Printers  Barcode labels can be designed to contain various fields, fonts, image, etc., and printed using laser, inkjet or dot-matrix printers  The format and the content of the barcode of the existing inkjet printers can also be used  To design o In POS: Stock > Barcode > Designing Labels for Standard Printers o In HO: Merchandise > Barcode > Designing Labels for Standard Printers

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 14 Label Designer  The options available for designing a label: o Open – option to open a.btf file o Save – Save the label design o Save As – Save the label design with other name o Format – Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike, Font colour, Background colour, Format Date Font name, Font size, Top position, Left position, width and height

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 15 Label Designer  Label Parameters o Unit of measurement can be defined in terms of Milli Meters, Centi meters and Inches o Unit of measurement to decide the height and the width of the label o Apply Label Settings

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 16 Label Designer  Select Fields o Select the label content  Constant Text  Barcode Label  Value captured in Shoper 9  Image

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 17 Label Designer  Field Parameters o To configure the parameters based on the label content o The field parameter group varies depending upon the field type selected

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 18 Label Designer  Apply Field Settings o Apply the field configurations to the respective field in the label  Place the required fields and their values in the barcode label panel

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 19 Label Designer  Delete – Allows user to delete a field from a label  Clear All – Clear the content of the label  Exit – Exit the label the designer

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 20 Constant Text o Showroom Name o. o A message  To configure o Select Constant Text in Select Fields o Click to place/ add multiple constant text in a single label o Enter the constant text label (to be printed on the label)

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 21 Barcode Label  To Configure o Select Barcode Label as the Selected Fields o Click to place/ add multiple constant text in a single label o Select the Symbology (to be printer on the label) o Select the Stock No as the Barcode Content o Enter the Sample Text Note: The mapping between messages and barcodes is called a Symbology

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 22 Fields from item master table (Values captured in Shoper 9) o Item Description o. o Mfg Date  To Configure o Select Stock Number in Select Fields o Click to place/ add multiple constant text in a single label o Enter the Sample Text (example, the stock number) o Apply Field Settings

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 23 Image o Company Logo o. o Pictorial message  To configure image o Select Images as Select Fields o Select the path where the image is available Note: The position of various values in the label panel can be moved with cursor pointer  Save the label design as a.btf file

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 24 Designing Layout for Standard Printers  The design layout is used to configure o Page size o page format o pitch settings o number of rows and columns o number of labels in a page  The settings made in the design layout is as per customer requirement and type of stationery  To design o In POS: Stock > Barcode > Design Layout for Standard Printers o In HO: Merchandise > Barcode > Design Layout for Standard Printers

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 25 Layout Designer  Load the label design file o The details of the label design is displayed  Select Label Design Preview

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 26 Layout Designer  Enter page settings  Select Layout Design Preview  Save Barcode Layout Designer File as a.blf file

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 27 Print Barcode Labels  To print o In POS: Stock > Barcode > Print Labels o In HO: Merchandise > Barcode > Print Labels  Load script file name  Based on the printer, select the script file o For Thermal printers, select.txt file and enter/ select the values where ever the fields are blank o For Standard printers, select.blf file

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 28 Printing Tag/ Labels  The values from the script file populate the Tag Printing screen  Use any of the selection listed under Options and choose the appropriate settings

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 29 Printing Tag/ Labels  Use Manual Selection o to print barcode tags for the item masters created o to print barcode tags for the selected stock numbers  Use Against Purchase (PT File) to print barcode tags for the items received from vendor/ warehouse and PT file is available for the items received

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 30 Printing Tag/ Labels  Use Against Transaction to print barcode tags for the items which are transacted in Shoper 9 like Sales Bill, Transfer In/Out, Sales Order, etc.  Use Against Purchase Order o To print and use the barcode tags for items received o To print barcode tags against a purchase order and send the same to the vendor along with the purchase order. This will help the vendor in attaching the barcodes to the goods at delivery.

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 31 Printing Tag/ Labels  Use Against Masters to print the barcode tags for the items created during selected date range and data.  Use Against Direct Scan to print barcode tags for identical items received from a vendor without barcode tags. Scan or enter the stock number for printing the barcode tags.

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 32 Print Barcode Labels  Standard Printers o By default, the output and port is selected

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 33 Print Barcode Labels Thermal Printers  Select File as the Output to By default, the output is saved in Out folder as Manualbar.seq You can also browse and select a specific existing file  Create a batch file in the Out directory to print the saved file o Open Notepad o Enter Type Manualbar.seq > prn o Save the file as.bat in the Out folder

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 34 Printing Tag/ Labels  Edit the number of tags/ labels to print as per business requirement  Print the barcode labels  Note: For Thermal Printers, double click the.bat file after all the settings and executing Print

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 35 Print Labels

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