Item entry and Keypad Help

Starting at the top left, you see that you have three horizontal lines a.k.a. hamburger. When tapped, it displays the menu.
Each of the menu options will take you to another Retail Financial Inventory App screen.

• Home is the main inventory screen with the keypad
• Inventory is where you can review the entries you have made
• Settings is where you can change some options for the app
• Delete is where you can delete your current inventory data
• Import/Export is where you can import your item master from a file or export the data to file/upload
• Totals is where you can see area/section totals
• Web based reports

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Next you see Area, Section, and Dept. As you conduct an inventory it is easy to track locations that you have inventoried. Later if you need to double check or show a report, the Area, Section and Department will help you identify the specific location and department(A.K.A. category).
The area, section, and department are buttons that get enabled when you have typed four or three(department) digits on the input field.
There are two ways to change the area/section/department.
You can type four digits then tap the area/section buttons. Type three digits for department and Dept button
You can type a number with 4 or less digits then tap ^ or @ then when Enter is tapped, it will change area or section respectively.
You can type a number with 3 or less digits then tap $ then when Enter is tapped, it will change department.
For example, typing 0001 then the Section button will change to section 0001.
typing 1@ then tapping Enter will change section to 0001.
typing 1$ then tapping Enter will change department to 001

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There are five labels that turn green or red depending if the piece of data they represent is accepted or not.
Next you have the text field that accepts the different pieces of data for the inventory.
To the left you have a label that indicates the principal piece of data that is expecting.
Below the input you will see what was type last
Besides the visual indicators, there are beeps that alert you of something that is not expected.

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The next section is the keypad. Retail Financial Inventory App has been designed to work with an external Bluetooth/USB keypad.
Most keys/buttons are self explained. The buttons will enable/disable depending if you can tap them or not

• Esc - Any data that has been entered into the text field will be cleared. If you tap Esc more than once, it will clear the text field until the accepted entry is price
• ^ - This button is used when you want to set the Area using the keypad without using the Area button. For example you tap 1^Enter, 0001 value will be set for Area
  On the external keypad the / is the ^ value
• @ - This button is used when you want to set the Section using the keypad without using the Section button. For example you tap 1@Enter, 0001 value will be set for Section
  On the external keypad the = is the $ value
• $ - This button is used when you want to set the Department using the keypad without using the Department button. For example you tap 1$Enter, 001 value will be set for Department
  On the external keypad the TAB is the $ value
• Back Sp - When there is at least one character in the text field, the Back Sp button will remove the last character in the field
• - - Sometimes it is easier to add negative quantity to substract amounts from the inventory.
  This button allows you to do just that.
  For example, if you entered 1.99 with a quantity of 125 then you realize that there are 100 instead of 125. Then you can use - button to add the negative entry -25.
  the entry would look like 1.99*-25ENTER
  
• Enter - This button let app know that you are ready to process what has been entered into the text field. It can be used to set the price or add quantities with previous price.
• These are some the entries: 1.99 ENTER (sets the price)
  2 ENTER (quantity for the previous price)
  10 ENTER (quantity for the same 1.99 price)
  To change price
  9.99 ENTER (sets a new price). Most of the time when a decimal is included, it denotes the price.
  15 ENTER (quantity for previous price)
  10*10*10 ENTER (sets the price as 10 and the rest as quantity). In this case 10*10 = 100 as quantity
  25 ENTER (quantity for the 10.00 price)
  12.50*-10 ENTER (sets price as 12.50 and uses a negative 10 quantity)
• The picture of the keypad is a USB keypad that you can find in Amazon®. It is a mechanical keypad that has nice touchy feeling when entering inventory.