They actually have barcodes on the ticket but never use the scanners to actually read them, they just read the number (printed below the bar code).
Frank.
Frank Cazabon
On 10/10/2018 06:19 PM, Mike wrote:
Print the sequential number using a barcode font. If a customer has a barcode scanner, they can "see" the number, but they'd have to be looking pretty hard. Meanwhile, an $80 barcode scanner (USB connection) on the office computer would let them read the sequential number.
Mike Copeland
Frank Cazabon wrote:
I have a client who issues tickets in numerical sequence (it's a pawnshop). The sequence helps them balance things back at the end of the day (read that as check for stealing) when checking the various parcels received for the tickets issued (they keep a copy of the ticket issued to their customer and at the end of the day sort them sequentially and read the numbers off the tickets to ensure they match the parcels). They are now not wanting the number printed on the ticket as their competitors may be able to get an idea from the sequential numbers how much business they are doing (by getting a ticket early in the morning and then one ate in the afternoon).
So, they have asked me to come up with a solution and I must admit that I am coming up blank.
Any ideas?
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