I have been updating on Facebook, but then I realized I should be updating here, for all my peeps. (I remember when they only sold peeps around Easter.)

I took time off, right before my wife's surgery. This was so I could help her out, and I have. Since she was unable to put any weight on her foot for 2 weeks, (and being all doped up on Percocet,) it was best if somebody was around to help her out with everything. (Don't want her to end up on one of those "fallen and can't get up" ads.) Anyway while I have been doing what I can, I have plenty of time between those bell rings. (Well if this was a 70's sitcom we would have gotten her one.) And have been stuck at home, so I spent a lot of that time working on getting VIKDR up and running.

While sometimes I feel like I will never get this thing done, I have made some decent progress on it. The one thing that keeps slowing me down is wanting to do things I don't know how to do yet. As an example I recently had to figured out how to format the products grid so they are displayed similar to how they will look in a machine, so if a person has a triple head, they get 3 products in a row. If they have a 5 way rack, it will show up 2 products over 3. And if a person has a machine with 5 over 5 over 5 over 10 over 10 over 5, (based on one full line image,) it still works. Or maybe a person needs a 10 by 10 grid.

I got this to work, but now I need to figure out how to move it to a better location on the page. (Not an HTML problem unfortunately.)

So far I have made plenty of progress on the Location manager, and the Machine manager. Products are pretty much ready, but not the associated inventory system. I have part of the Expense manager set up, but I am thinking of making a change to it. I am thinking of adding a pop up "receipt" to the columns, so you can fill in multiple purchases made at one time, along with shipping, tax, and tracking any mileage. Either way I will need to make sure it updates the inventory automatically.

Speaking of inventory, if dealing with bulk food items, you will need to decide on grams, or ounces for each bulk item, the dispensed measurement, and how much the containers hold. You will decide what containers you use, (anything you want really,) but if you use the bags the candy comes in, it should be fairly easy. 56 oz bag is 56 ounces. 2.04 kilo bag is 2,040 grams.

If you purchase in case's, or pallets, you can set up those sizes also.

Everything else should be sold by the unit. In those instances you simply put in the quantity. 1 bag of 27mm mixed superballs, 250. 10 bags, 2,500.

And now that I think of it, I should add a coffee product section for those who sell coffee. This would also need to be measured in bulk.