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Custom Referral application

Hi, I am a .net developer and i need to add some custom functionality in RMS. this is what i basically need, it's kind of a referral program.

The store wants to issue some referral card(s) may be 10,20 or more to certain customers. each of these card will have some number given to it say

100,101,etc. These customers will then distribute these cards to other people. When the new customer comes in with the card and makes some purchase those transactions needs to be recorded against the customer who gave them the referral cards based on the card number.

Finally the store wants to issue a cheque to thecustomers with the referral cards who had some transactions (10% of the total amount). Each card will be valid only between certain dates or n number of uses.

Please advise what would be the best way to do this. I was thinking of building a custom addin but was not sure how to link the purchases in POS back to the customer.

Thanks in advance.

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Abby
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Abby, I would save the information from the customer that brought was given the referral cards in a separate sql table that had the referral card numbers with the customer account number or id. Then when the referral card was brought back in I was store the referring customer number(or id) in a custom field in the customer table. Then you could even find out how much business that customer brought in to your store over the lifetime. As for issuing a check you could do a query based on the date the customer was set up and who the referral customer was. I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for or if you are looking for more specifics about how to programmatically do it.

Let me know if that all makes sense.

Mark.

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Hi Mark, Thanks for your response, what you suggested totally makes sense and i am great with sql,tables, C#,VB coding but my problem is that i have never worked with RMS before and since there is no goog documentation as to how to extend the functionalities of the out of box app i am having a little bit of a problem. I am no sure if there is any good documentation/SDK out there.

Everything below is going to take place in POS::

Anyways i wanted add functionalities similar to what you mentioned. Let me start with the first piece of functionality of assigning card numbers to customers. so for this piece i can create a new table with cardno,customerid,validstartdate,validenddate,etc. To populate this table i will create a custom addin which would give you the capability to link card information with the customer. This part is fine.

Next part is when someone brings in one of the card and does some purchase. This is what i was trying to accomplish here, when a customer comes in and shows the card the cashier will click on the addin module that i created and put in the card number. Next he will ring the products in for purchase and finally finish the transaction. During this process i want to push in the referral card number that was initially punched in to each and every transaction entry,i.e., for each product line that was purchased. After the transaction is done forget the referral card number so that the next transaction can go on in a usual manner.

This is where i am kind of stuck as i am not able to figure out a way to do this, basically how to link the referral card number with transactions.

Please advise.

Thanks, Abby

"Mark" wrote:

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Abby

Abby do you have a copy of the customization guide? It gives you a lot of the information you need to do what you want. I will tell you the first one is not much fun, after you have done as many add-ins as I have it becomes no big deal. Abby, if you want to email me directly, my email is mark_a snipped-for-privacy@msn.com.

Mark.

"Abby" wrote:

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No i don't have a copy of customization guide. Could you please send that over to me, i emailed you on the email address provided.

Thanks, Abby

"Mark" wrote:

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Abby

Hello All, I was expecting to get some directions here in the forum. If some one can shed some light to my issue it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, abby

"Abby" wrote:

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oDear Abby, Let me know what kind of help you need. like how to design the or hook with RMS. I have something to help you out.

Akber

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