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Database and invoicing software.

Encrypt and backup/restore your important data.

• Fast customer/product/invoicing processing.
• Create an Invoice/Proforma/Credit Note/Order/Send Note pdf and direct print.
• Multiple currencies: EUR, USD, GBP, YEN and others
• 11 document database tables (see screenshot on the left.)
• Secure 256 bit AES encryption for text, double encryption for ZIP-email.
• Encrypted content is hidden directly. Simple selection-click to decrypt.
• Quick encrypted email-backup.
• Choose your own encryption passphrase for full protection.
• Free download and 30 day trial.
• Multilingual application: English/Deutsch/Français/Nederlands/Español/Italiano.
• Compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7.
• Runs on .NET framework 3.5
• Registration through your webshop order.

Last update: May 9, 2010.

1. Choose your language:
   • Go to "Program" and "Language" in te menu.
   • Choose your language in the drop-down list.
   • Restart the program or close and reopen it.

    

2. Change your encryption key:
   • This will affect the encrypted fields (***) in the Documents-section.
   • Go to "Database" and "Extra" in the menu.
   • Change the 'Secret Key' to whatever you want, warning: this will make previous encrypted data unreadable! Empty the tables first.
   • Note: The 'ZIP password' only applies to the email backup attachment password.

    

3. Enter your personal/company details:
   • Go to "Program" and "Options" in te menu.
   • Fill in the 'User Company Details' accurately.

    

4. Fill in your backup/email details:
   • Go to "Program" and "Options" in te menu.
   • Fill in the 'User Backup / Email Details' accurately.

    

5. Get a registration key to unlock the trial version:
   • Do the registration through your webshop order.
   • Wait to get a mail from us with your personal registration data.
   • Go to "Help" and "Registration" in te menu.
   • Fill in the details of your registration and click "Register!"

    

6. How to fill in the customers/products database:
   • Go to "Invoicing" and "Customers" or "Products" in te menu.
   • Fill in the customers / products details.

    

7. Make my first invoice:
   • Be sure to have some data in the "Customers" and "Products" tables.
   • Have a look at the "Database" and "Extra" in the menu. Fill in the 'Invoice settings'
   • Go to "Invoicing" and "Orders" in te menu.
   • Click "New" near the top-right of the screen.
   • Near the bottom-left, change the 'Type' and 'Currency' if needed.
   • Choose your customer from the top-left 'Select Customer' drop-down box and ENTER.
   • Select the date or ENTER.
   • (Optional) add additional text in the 'Info' field and ENTER.
     • Select a first article in the 'Select Article' drop-down box and ENTER.
     • (Optional) add additional text in the 'Info' field and ENTER.
     • Choose the quantity (1 is preset) and ENTER.
     • Correct the price if needed and ENTER.
     • Press ENTER to input the next article.
   • Click 'Print Preview' for a pdf print preview.
   • Click 'Print' to get an immediate printout.

    

8. How to use the documents / encrypted database:
   • Go to "Documents" and one of the 11 available tables (example: 'Logins ***') in the menu.
   • Fill in your data, colums with *** will be encrypted automatically.
   • Add an additional row with the yellow '+' on the bottom-left.
   • Decrypt data in a particular row by simply clicking the appropriate field.
   • Data is saved automatically.

    

9. Change the startscreen (what screen is shown when the program is opened?)
   • Go to "Database" and "Extra" in the menu.
   • Choose from the drop-down list.

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