The Receivers Form
From: Main Menu -- Add/Edit Customers -- Right Click Popup Menu


Use this form to view all the receivers a customer has, add receivers to Orders, and change out receivers, move receivers to inventory, and delete receivers. After you are done changing receiver information, it's a good idea to look at the Order Summaries Form to make sure the information is correct.

NOTE: Move the cursor over the picture of the form. When you see the little hand thingy Hand Thingy appear, you can click on the item to get more information!

System Type Model Receiver Serial Receiver ID Smart Card Cost Primary Changed Out Ours Date Inventoried Order Date Date Changed Out Date Installed Change Out Receiver UnChange Out Receiver Add Receiver To Customer Move Receiver To Inventory Navigation Buttons Record Selectors Form Control Close
Customer Form Service Form Program Form Provider Form Commission Form Order Form Order Summaries Form Payment Form
NOTE: The menu to the right (with customers, receivers, etc.) is displayed whenever you right click inside the form you are working in, allowing you to quickly move from form to form as you enter customer information.

System Type: Enter the receiver system type here. Double click to change the list of system types that appear in the drop-down menu.
Data source: Receivers.SysType

Model: Enter the receiver model here. Double click to change the list of models that appear in the drop-down menu. If you leave the cost blank, the cost associated with the model is added automatically.
Data source: Receivers.Model

Receiver Serial: Enter the receiver serial number here. The pull down list displays all non-blank serial numbers of receivers in inventory. After selecting a serial number, the System Type, Model, Receiver ID and SmartCard number are automatically filled in; if the cost is blank the cost associated with the model is set.
Data source: Receivers.ReceiverSerial

Receiver ID: Enter the receiver ID number here. The pull down list displays all non-blank ID numbers of receivers in inventory. After selecting a ID number, the System Type, Model, Receiver Serial Number and SmartCard number are automatically filled in; if the cost is blank the cost associated with the model is set.
Data source: Receivers.ReceiverID

Smart Card: Enter the SmartCard number here. The pull down list displays all non-blank SmartCard numbers of receivers in inventory. After selecting a SmartCard number, the System Type, Model, Receiver ID, and Receiver Serial Number are automatically filled in; if the cost is blank the cost associated with the model is set.
Data source: Receivers.SmartCard

Cost: Enter the receiver cost (to the customer) here. This cost is used to calculate order totals.
Data source: Receivers.Cost

Primary: Indicates if the receiver is the primary receiver. You must set this to yes on one receiver for the customer if you wish to print out a purchase agreement. You may see either a -1 or a 0. If so, you can still type 'yes' or 'no'. -1 means yes, and 0 means no.
Data source: Receivers.Primary

Ours: Indicates if you sold the receiver. SatTracker does not use this information, so really you can use it for anything you wish. You may see either a -1 or a 0. If so, you can still type 'yes' or 'no'. -1 means yes, and 0 means no.
Data source: Receivers.Ours

Order Date: The Order date is used to group receiver entries with other payments, programming, receivers, or service. See How do I take an order for more information.
Data source: Receivers.OrderDate

Date Installed: The date the receiver was installed. If you leave this blank, SatTracker sets it to today's date.
Data source: Receivers.DateInstalled

Change Out Receiver: Press this button to change out a receiver. The receiver belonging to the customer is marked as 'changed out', and the date changed out is set to today's date. A new receiver record is created, with all the information from the receiver you are changing out, but with a customer ID of 0; indicating that it is in inventory. This does the record keeping for taking a receiver from the customer and putting it in your shop. If you plan to discard the receiver, click on the Record Selector and press the delete key to delete the receiver.


UnChange Out Receiver: This action undoes a change out. You can only unchange out a receiver that has been changed out. The changed out status is set to false, the date changed out is cleared, and the inventory receiver record (with a customer ID of 0) is deleted.


Move Receiver To Inventory: Unlike change out; Move Receiver to Inventory simply changes the CustomerId to 0. It is as if the receiver never belonged to the customer. You can use this feature to undo inadvertantly adding a receiver to the customer.


Add Receiver To Customer: Press this button to bring up the Add Receiver To Customer form. If, after adding the receiver, you decide you didn't really want to do that, click the Move Receiver To Inventory button to undo the add.


Close: Close this form.





































Hand Thingy: See? It really works!!