Before you start entering information on purchase orders, you'll want to prepare the program for your business environment.  The program needs to know your address for printing out purchase orders.  It needs to know if you want to add a prefix or suffix to your purchase order number.  You can indicate if you want set-up a cancel date on each of your PO's, etc.  All this information is entered in Basic Program Setup.  Once it's entered, it's saved as your program's defaults and you won't have to worry about it anymore.

To reach it, select FILE and BASIC PROGRAM SET UP & PREFERENCES from the Menu Bar.  The Basic Program Set-up Screen will appear:

To assist you, a help system has been built into the dialog box.  As you TAB from question to question, a box at the bottom of the screen describes the type of information needed.

Be sure to use TAB when you want to use the help system.  If you click on checkboxes and radio buttons, the value will change.  The values remain the same if you use TAB.

Basic Program Set-up Links

At the top of your screen, you'll see thirteen tabs.  These take you to different parts of Basic Program Set-up.  The program starts in "Basics," but when you're finished with Basics you'll want click on "Business Address" and other tabs and indicate your preferences.

For more information on any specific item see:

If you'd like to make a hard copy of the setup values, select FILE from the Menu Bar at the top of the page you want printed and choose PRINT.

When you are ready to exit, select FILE from the Menu Bar at the top of the page, and choose SAVE & CLOSE.

As you exit, all the values that you entered are saved in the file POsetup.dbf. POsetup.dbf is loaded automatically each time the program is started.  As a precaution, it is also saved on your back-up disk each time you do a back-up.

Using AnyPO in Conjunction with AnyBook or AnyOrder

The Basic Set-up Screen is set-up differently depending on whether you are using AnyPO by itself -- or whether you are using AnyPO in conjunction with AnyBook (publishing business software) or AnyOrder (mail order software) . . .

If you are using AnyPO as a subsidiary program to AnyBook or AnyOrder, click here for more information:

Basic Program Set-up for AnyBook or AnyOrder Users