• Enter the Last Name and/or the First Name in the area next to the "Show" command button, and click on the button itself.
• If this is a unique name, all the items for that consignor will appear in the table below it.
• If this is not a unique name, you will be shown all the possible names in the Consignment Maintentance screen.  Simply click on the right one, and you will be taken back to the Item Maintenance screen, with all the items for that consignor showing in the table.

• Click on "Add" option button.
• The text area opens up, allowing you to input data.  You must fill at least the Item Description.  The Date Added area is filled with the current date
• When done, click on the command button marked "Add". 

• If the table shows more than one item, click on the one you want to change
• Click on the "Change" option button.
• The text area opens up, allowing you to make your changes.
• When done, click on the command button marked "Change"

• If the  table shows more than one item, click on the the one you want to delete
• Click on the "Delete" option button.  This will prompt a cautionary message.
• If you agree to go on, click on the command button marked "Delete"

• Click on the "Pay" option button.  This will show all items that have been sold (Date Sold is not blank) and not paid (Date Paid is blank). All the items are highlighted by default.  You can now click on any item that you do not want to pay.
• Enter the Date Paid and the Pay Reference in the text area at the bottom of the table.
• Click on the command button market "Pay".

Selling an Item

• If the table shows more than one item, click on the one you want to sell.
• click on the "Sell" option button.  This will update the Date Sold to the current date.
• If you did not want the Date Sold to be the current date, then use the Change function to change it.
  

• If at any time during the add or change process you want to cancel your entries, simply press the "Show" command button.
• Items for a particular consignor must have unique Item Description.  You may have the same Item Description for different consignors.
• In entering dates, if you leave out the year, it will default to current year, e.g. 2/15 refers to Feb. 15 of the current year.
• Also, if you do not readily know the current date, type in the word "today" and it will change it to the current date.  Likewise if you type in "today - 2" it will change it to the date 2 days ago.
• In adding an item, if a value is the same as the previous added item, typing the ditto mark (")  will duplicate it.
• When entering the cost or sale price, the other is calculated only if it is blank.  Therefore if you want to change a cost price and want the system to recalculate the sale price, then blank out the sale price before changing the cost price.
• An item cannot be added without its consignor having first being added.