Micro Florist Accessories

Flora-LinkTM
Auto-FaxTM
Remote-LinkTM
Flora-MapTM
Flora-GraphTM
Auto-ReconcileTM
Wedding DesignerTM (stand-alone)
Micro Florist online BBS
Caller-Id Utility
Feature List
BarCode Module
Feature List
Point Of Sale Hardware

Flora-LinkTM

If you are an FTD florist, and have received your Mercury 3000 machine, then this product will provide the interface between the Mercury 3000 and your (Host) system (also referred to as the Mercury Link or the Mercury Interface). The efficiency gains and the savings are two folds.

First, for the incoming orders on the M3000, the Flora-Link will automatically trap all orders, translate them into Flora-Ticket orders, and bring them over to your Micro Florist system. Just remember those busy holidays, when the Mercury system keeps on printing, and printing, and you keep saying, OH my Gosh, who's gonna enter all these orders. Well, with Flora-Link, they are enter with a single menu selection.

Second, for the out-going orders, you no-longer have to re-enter all those orders into the Mercury system for transmission. Just select the filling florist from your Florist Directory, press a key, and Bingo, they are all sent to the Mercury system, transmitted, and verified, in less than just few minutes.

Flora-Link uses a proprietary communication link between the two systems (your Host and the Mercury), utilizing a "special" Null Modem RS-232 cable. The distance between the Host and the Mercury systems is limited to around 10' depending on your shop's environment.

The Flora-Link operates in partition 3 of the Mercury 3000 system. The partition 4 will still be available to run other third part software, or to be used as an additional Flora-Ticket station.

Auto-FaxTM

Imagine, not having to make some of those long, and tedious wireout phone calls to other florists, in the middle of your busy day. Well now, you don't have to !

After you select a florist that has a fax number, from the Florist Directory, the system asks you; "if you want to FAX the order ?". If you respond with a "yes", then the system allows you to make any adjustments necessary to the "amount given to the filling florist", and then bingo, the order is Faxed right in front of your eyes!.

But of course, not all florists have fax numbers, however, the number is growing rapidly. Soon there will be even more, when florists hear about the Auto-Fax, and the fact that they'll receive more orders, if they get a Fax machine.

For now, in most cities, the Florist Directory finds at least one florist with a fax number, which is really all you need.

Since this is a "send only" fax software, you do not need a dedicated phone line, but you do need a Fax/Modem unit.

Remote-LinkTM

For florist business with multiple stores, this product alone can be the reason to purchase the Micro Florist system.

This product is so powerful, that it is almost unbelievable to see how easily it does, what it does, when what it does, can not even be done with systems costing 100 times more, using expensive communication hardware, software and dedicated digital lines. Here is how it works.

At your "main branch" you have a regular phone line, dedicated to your Host's modem. With Remote Link, your Host system always answers calls coming in from your branch shop(s) on that line.

Your branch shop(s) have Flora-Ticket stations with modems connected to (non-dedicated) phone lines. These lines can be the same lines that are used by Flora-Credit for obtaining credit card authorizations.

At the branch shop, after taking 5 or 10 orders, the operator presses Ctrl-E on the keyboard, and the Flora-Ticket station will automatically call the main branch, and transfers a copy of all the orders (since the last transmission) to the Host computer.

While the call is being made, the Host communicates with the branch shop's computer, in the background, without any disruptions on the Host. As the operator on the Host system, you wouldn't even know, if the system is receiving, or has received files, until the system returns to an idle state.

The up-to-date Customer and Inventory (resource) files at the Main store are automatically compressed and can be downloaded into the remote station(s), with a single menu selection from the remote station(s).

In either case, whether orders are being sent out, or resource files are being received, as soon as the file transfer is over, the branch station hangs up, freeing up the line, which is ideal for long distance calls.

If people at your branch store do their own production and send out their own orders, then the system at the branch shop can be setup for "local processing of orders". In this mode the Micro Florist system at the branch store calls the Main Host for order transfer, after it finishes its local processing of orders.

In other words, the system at the branch store, first generates all the paperwork locally, and then it calls the computer at the main shop and transfers a copy of all orders, so that central billing and accounting can be done at the main shop.

Flora-MapTM

The Flora-Map system provides you with a fast and easy way to plan your delivery routes and to pin-point the recipient / customer addresses on the map (of your county).

The Micro Florist system first pulls the delivery information from the Delivery Ticket database easily and quickly, and then it passes the information to the Flora-Map system. Recipient addresses may also be entered directly into the Flora-Map system itself.

The Flora-Map performs automatic geo-coding, and prompts you for any address that needs correction. The system will then place an "X" and the last name of the recipient right on the map.

You can print different views of the map, with all the recipient addresses for each delivery trip. Just imagine how handy this fantastic tool can be on a busy holiday. Using the Flora-Map system, you can also see if a certain address is correct, or if it is within your delivery area, during sale entry.

The main benefit of the Flora-Map system is that your Driver can be so well organized before he leaves the shop, that delivery times can almost be cut in half. You can group deliveries by driver, delivery date, and/or zip codes. Couple of key strokes will locate all addresses for a particular delivery zone, and will print each map. A definite must for a Hi-Tech shop.

Flora-GraphTM

This is a real fun product. From the Main menu of the Micro Florist system, you can press couple of keys, and produce the most dazzling, colorful and informative graphs that you can ever imagine.

There is no need to prepare the data, import it into a spread sheet program, and then graph the data, with Flora-Graph it all happens with a just a few key strokes.

You can choose the graph data to be your sale, expense, income, profit, employee performance, shop loading, or any other major indicator of your business. You can then select the type of graph from more than 60 different two or three dimensional graph types.

After the graph is drawn on the screen, pressing the letter "P", will print the graph in a full size landscape layout. It is that easy. These graphs will look real impressive, on the wall at the Manager's office. The sales, and the employee performance charts can be used to motivate employees, and to add a lot of excitement to the work place environment.

Auto-ReconcileTM

The Auto-Reconcile provides a quick and easy method for reconciling wire service statements, using a floppy disk provided by your wire service.

A floppy disk containing the wire service statement can be requested from your wire service by simply calling their Customer Service Department. Currently FTD, AFS, Redbook, and Carik provide such service. You may also call other wire services, and let them know that you would be interested in obtaining your monthly statements on floppy disks.

Each month, you would simply select the Auto-Reconcile from the Services menu of the Micro Florist system, insert the floppy disk, and bingo, all invalid, duplicate, and over-charged orders are printed on your printer!. It is that simple. You will sleep better at nights, knowing that you have caught each and every incorrect charge on your statement.

The auto-reconciliation of both incoming and out-going wire orders can be done in just a few minutes. The incoming and outgoing wire order activity as shown on the wire service statement, is matched to the actual data in the Micro Florist system. Entries that match are stamped "Cleared". Printed reports then show you exactly which orders are left unmatched, and the system prints discrepancies that need to be resolved.

Wedding DesignerTM(stand-alone)

The Micro Florist Full Feature Set system already includes the "integrated" version of the Wedding Designer. Here, we will talk about the "standalone" version of this product. The stand-alone version is designed, so that it can run on a smaller computer (a laptop, or a notebook size computer), and it is usually used in the wedding consultation section of a florist shop.

Since it is usually not very practical to do the wedding consultations on the main counter (where the Micro Florist system is usually located), this compact version of the Wedding Designer, allows you to run it basically, at any location you want, using a smaller computer.

You can conduct your interactive wedding consultations with brides, using the stand-alone system, and then bring the worksheet(s) back to the main Micro Florist system for final pricing / printing.

If you do any wedding work at your shop, then the stand-alone version can really make your wedding consultations convenient and efficient, while causing no interruptions on your main Micro Florist system.

Micro Florist Online BBS

MicroCode Corp. is proud to present the next level of computer communications technology in the Floral Industry. The Micro Florist Online (Flora Forum) is a 24 hour BBS (Electronic Bulletin Board Service).

The MFS allows you to connect to the BBS, download, and install the latest versions of the Micro Florist software, at anytime you wish, from within the Micro Florist main menu automatically.

You can also download the latest Florist Directory files with significant savings directly from within the Micro Florist system.

As a member of the Micro Florist Online BBS, you can participate in Micro Florist User's Group Forums, send and receive E-Mail (Electronic Mail) to the Technical Support Group, or other members, ask for help on specific Micro Florist applications, or offer solutions on specific issues.

The User's Group forum is a very powerful medium to communicate your thoughts, problems, solutions, wish lists, etc. to MicroCode Technical Support, as well as to other users.

We recommend an external High Speed (14.4 or 28.8) modem, connected to the COM1 (or COM2) of your computer.

Caller-Id Utility

The Micro Florist Caller-Id utility is an integrated software accessory that works in conjunction with the Multi-Line Adapter (MLA), which decodes the Caller-Id information from up to 6 telephone lines, and brings that information directly into your Flora-Ticket station(s). The Caller-Id information is retrieved from the MLA between the first and the second rings of an incoming call, and a popup menu allows the Operator to select the line, and see the customer's Instant Profile, even before s/he actually talks to him/her!!.

With the Caller-Id utility, you can harness powerful new telephone technologies to reduce time per call, capture calls that otherwise may be lost, and totally automate your Order Entry operations. When you see the Micro Florist Caller-Id solution for Call Management, you can spend less time on each call, get "closer" to your customer faster, decide which Operator should take the call, and whether to take the call now, or employ our automatic call logging and telephone directory features for call-back at a later time. That is a lot of functionality !!. Imagine, you will never have "lost" calls, even if those calls come in, after hours.

Feature List

Caller-Id Controller provides the interface to the Multi-Line Adapter, via a Serial Port. This utility can run on a dedicated system, or operate within a separate window (Microsoft Windows). The Caller-Id status files, and log files reside on the "shared" disk drive of the Caller-Id Controller system.

When the Caller-Id Manager on a Flora-Ticket station is enabled, as soon as there are incoming calls, a popup menu will show the names and numbers of customers, allowing you to select a line. As soon as you select a line, customer's Instant Profile is under your finger tips.

By viewing the Instant Profile, you can read customer's memo field, average purchase, payment history, upcoming special occasions, and the details of his/her previous orders, all before you say Hello!.

You can view the central Caller-Id Log file, at any time, evaluate employee performance, retrieve unanswered calls, and do call backs using the Auto-Dialer feature!.

The Caller-Id Manager will NEVER get in your way. You can disable the Caller-Id menu from poping up, by simply pressing the Escape key. To re-enable, you simply press Ctrl-L.

BarCode Module

In order to achieve the maximum level of automation in Order Entry, and Production Entry, increase the overall accuracy, and to enhance the Inventory Control functions of your Micro Florist system, MicroCode Corp. is proud announce the addition of the BarCode Module to the Micro Florist software accessories.

The BarCode Module maybe installed on either the Host, or a MFS Satellite station. You can purchase your own BarCode Hardware (referred to as BarCode Scanner, Reader, or Wand), or order it through your Micro Florist Representative. Your BarCode Reader must be CODE128 com.

Feature List

The system is BarCode "aware" when entering the Item-Id in Flora-Ticket, Cash Register, and Production of Finished Goods.

You can enable the "Quick Entry" mode when producing BarCodes. In this mode the system will bypass the confirmation for item quantity, and item price when entering transactions.

You can access the BarCode Module by simply pressing the TAB key, while the Search Engine is blinking on an item. This feature allows you to print BarCodes when Purchasing, Receiving, Auditing, Producing, or Selling inventory items.

You can produce BarCodes on either Dot Matrix, or Laser printers (Laser printers are recommended). BarCodes maybe printed on 1,2,3, or 4 column of labels, with up to 20 rows per sheet.

The system allows you to have up to 10 different setup pages for your BarCode printing needs. When producing massive quantities of BarCodes, you can choose the "page printing" mode and print 80 BarCode labels at a time, and then you can switch to a "single column" printing mode, when you need to print a single BarCode.

Your BarCode Reader can be connected directly to the Credit Card Swiper on your MF Cash Register system. The system provides "keyboard free" entry of a multiple items in the "Quick Entry" mode.

Point of Sale Hardware

Card Reader, also known as the "Swiper". This is the little magnetic card reader that you run your walk-in sales credit cards through. Of course, in order to use this product, you must have the Flora-Credit system.

When using the Micro Florist, or the Flora-Ticket as cash register for all your walk-in sales, this accessory will significantly speed-up the sales entry, and may result in lower Credit Card fees charged by your bank.

The Swiper is easily installed between the keyboard and the computer, and it sticks to the counter with a piece of Velcro.

Receipt Printer, When using the MFS as a Cash Register, this will provide your customers with a 3" wide cashier receipt. The Star Micronics SP300 printer is one of the fastest and the most reliable receipt printers on the market, and it prints cashier receipts on a 3" wide roll of paper.

Cash Drawer, is used for the safe keeping of the cash. The APG Cash Drawer, connects to the above printer using a special wire, which is supplied with the drawer. The Drawer opens at the end of each sale.

This page last updated on: 04/26/98 10:28 PM

	If you are an FTD florist, and have received your Mercury 3000 machine, then this product will provide the interface between the Mercury 3000 and your (Host) system (also referred to as the Mercury Link or the Mercury Interface). The efficiency gains and the savings are two folds.
	First, for the incoming orders on the M3000, the Flora-Link will automatically trap all orders, translate them into Flora-Ticket orders, and bring them over to your Micro Florist system. Just remember those busy holidays, when the Mercury system keeps on printing, and printing, and you keep saying, OH my Gosh, who's gonna enter all these orders. Well, with Flora-Link, they are enter with a single menu selection.
	Second, for the out-going orders, you no-longer have to re-enter all those orders into the Mercury system for transmission. Just select the filling florist from your Florist Directory, press a key, and Bingo, they are all sent to the Mercury system, transmitted, and verified, in less than just few minutes.
	Flora-Link uses a proprietary communication link between the two systems (your Host and the Mercury), utilizing a "special" Null Modem RS-232 cable. The distance between the Host and the Mercury systems is limited to around 10' depending on your shop's environment.
	The Flora-Link operates in partition 3 of the Mercury 3000 system. The partition 4 will still be available to run other third part software, or to be used as an additional Flora-Ticket station.

	Imagine, not having to make some of those long, and tedious wireout phone calls to other florists, in the middle of your busy day. Well now, you don't have to !
	After you select a florist that has a fax number, from the Florist Directory, the system asks you; "if you want to FAX the order ?". If you respond with a "yes", then the system allows you to make any adjustments necessary to the "amount given to the filling florist", and then bingo, the order is Faxed right in front of your eyes!.
	But of course, not all florists have fax numbers, however, the number is growing rapidly. Soon there will be even more, when florists hear about the Auto-Fax, and the fact that they'll receive more orders, if they get a Fax machine.
	For now, in most cities, the Florist Directory finds at least one florist with a fax number, which is really all you need.
	Since this is a "send only" fax software, you do not need a dedicated phone line, but you do need a Fax/Modem unit.

	For florist business with multiple stores, this product alone can be the reason to purchase the Micro Florist system.
	This product is so powerful, that it is almost unbelievable to see how easily it does, what it does, when what it does, can not even be done with systems costing 100 times more, using expensive communication hardware, software and dedicated digital lines. Here is how it works.
	At your "main branch" you have a regular phone line, dedicated to your Host's modem. With Remote Link, your Host system always answers calls coming in from your branch shop(s) on that line.
	Your branch shop(s) have Flora-Ticket stations with modems connected to (non-dedicated) phone lines. These lines can be the same lines that are used by Flora-Credit for obtaining credit card authorizations.
	At the branch shop, after taking 5 or 10 orders, the operator presses Ctrl-E on the keyboard, and the Flora-Ticket station will automatically call the main branch, and transfers a copy of all the orders (since the last transmission) to the Host computer.
	While the call is being made, the Host communicates with the branch shop's computer, in the background, without any disruptions on the Host. As the operator on the Host system, you wouldn't even know, if the system is receiving, or has received files, until the system returns to an idle state.
	The up-to-date Customer and Inventory (resource) files at the Main store are automatically compressed and can be downloaded into the remote station(s), with a single menu selection from the remote station(s).
	In either case, whether orders are being sent out, or resource files are being received, as soon as the file transfer is over, the branch station hangs up, freeing up the line, which is ideal for long distance calls.
	If people at your branch store do their own production and send out their own orders, then the system at the branch shop can be setup for "local processing of orders". In this mode the Micro Florist system at the branch store calls the Main Host for order transfer, after it finishes its local processing of orders.
	In other words, the system at the branch store, first generates all the paperwork locally, and then it calls the computer at the main shop and transfers a copy of all orders, so that central billing and accounting can be done at the main shop.

	The Micro Florist system first pulls the delivery information from the Delivery Ticket database easily and quickly, and then it passes the information to the Flora-Map system. Recipient addresses may also be entered directly into the Flora-Map system itself.
	The Flora-Map performs automatic geo-coding, and prompts you for any address that needs correction. The system will then place an "X" and the last name of the recipient right on the map.
	You can print different views of the map, with all the recipient addresses for each delivery trip. Just imagine how handy this fantastic tool can be on a busy holiday. Using the Flora-Map system, you can also see if a certain address is correct, or if it is within your delivery area, during sale entry.
	The main benefit of the Flora-Map system is that your Driver can be so well organized before he leaves the shop, that delivery times can almost be cut in half. You can group deliveries by driver, delivery date, and/or zip codes. Couple of key strokes will locate all addresses for a particular delivery zone, and will print each map. A definite must for a Hi-Tech shop.

	This is a real fun product. From the Main menu of the Micro Florist system, you can press couple of keys, and produce the most dazzling, colorful and informative graphs that you can ever imagine.
	There is no need to prepare the data, import it into a spread sheet program, and then graph the data, with Flora-Graph it all happens with a just a few key strokes.
	You can choose the graph data to be your sale, expense, income, profit, employee performance, shop loading, or any other major indicator of your business. You can then select the type of graph from more than 60 different two or three dimensional graph types.
	After the graph is drawn on the screen, pressing the letter "P", will print the graph in a full size landscape layout. It is that easy. These graphs will look real impressive, on the wall at the Manager's office. The sales, and the employee performance charts can be used to motivate employees, and to add a lot of excitement to the work place environment.

	The Auto-Reconcile provides a quick and easy method for reconciling wire service statements, using a floppy disk provided by your wire service.
	A floppy disk containing the wire service statement can be requested from your wire service by simply calling their Customer Service Department. Currently FTD, AFS, Redbook, and Carik provide such service. You may also call other wire services, and let them know that you would be interested in obtaining your monthly statements on floppy disks.
	Each month, you would simply select the Auto-Reconcile from the Services menu of the Micro Florist system, insert the floppy disk, and bingo, all invalid, duplicate, and over-charged orders are printed on your printer!. It is that simple. You will sleep better at nights, knowing that you have caught each and every incorrect charge on your statement.
	The auto-reconciliation of both incoming and out-going wire orders can be done in just a few minutes. The incoming and outgoing wire order activity as shown on the wire service statement, is matched to the actual data in the Micro Florist system. Entries that match are stamped "Cleared". Printed reports then show you exactly which orders are left unmatched, and the system prints discrepancies that need to be resolved.

	The Micro Florist Full Feature Set system already includes the "integrated" version of the Wedding Designer. Here, we will talk about the "standalone" version of this product. The stand-alone version is designed, so that it can run on a smaller computer (a laptop, or a notebook size computer), and it is usually used in the wedding consultation section of a florist shop.
	Since it is usually not very practical to do the wedding consultations on the main counter (where the Micro Florist system is usually located), this compact version of the Wedding Designer, allows you to run it basically, at any location you want, using a smaller computer.
	You can conduct your interactive wedding consultations with brides, using the stand-alone system, and then bring the worksheet(s) back to the main Micro Florist system for final pricing / printing.
	If you do any wedding work at your shop, then the stand-alone version can really make your wedding consultations convenient and efficient, while causing no interruptions on your main Micro Florist system.

	MicroCode Corp. is proud to present the next level of computer communications technology in the Floral Industry. The Micro Florist Online (Flora Forum) is a 24 hour BBS (Electronic Bulletin Board Service).
	The MFS allows you to connect to the BBS, download, and install the latest versions of the Micro Florist software, at anytime you wish, from within the Micro Florist main menu automatically.
	You can also download the latest Florist Directory files with significant savings directly from within the Micro Florist system.
	As a member of the Micro Florist Online BBS, you can participate in Micro Florist User's Group Forums, send and receive E-Mail (Electronic Mail) to the Technical Support Group, or other members, ask for help on specific Micro Florist applications, or offer solutions on specific issues.
	The User's Group forum is a very powerful medium to communicate your thoughts, problems, solutions, wish lists, etc. to MicroCode Technical Support, as well as to other users.
	We recommend an external High Speed (14.4 or 28.8) modem, connected to the COM1 (or COM2) of your computer.

	Card Reader, also known as the "Swiper". This is the little magnetic card reader that you run your walk-in sales credit cards through. Of course, in order to use this product, you must have the Flora-Credit system.
	When using the Micro Florist, or the Flora-Ticket as cash register for all your walk-in sales, this accessory will significantly speed-up the sales entry, and may result in lower Credit Card fees charged by your bank.
	The Swiper is easily installed between the keyboard and the computer, and it sticks to the counter with a piece of Velcro.
	Receipt Printer, When using the MFS as a Cash Register, this will provide your customers with a 3" wide cashier receipt. The Star Micronics SP300 printer is one of the fastest and the most reliable receipt printers on the market, and it prints cashier receipts on a 3" wide roll of paper.
	Cash Drawer, is used for the safe keeping of the cash. The APG Cash Drawer, connects to the above printer using a special wire, which is supplied with the drawer. The Drawer opens at the end of each sale.