A PROPOSED POINT OF SALES OF SOLANO BICYCLE CENTER, SOLANO

NUEVA VIZCAYA
Chapter I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
1.1 Introduction
In todays generation, technology plays a big role in our modern day lives. As electronic
technology develops, personal devices like computer are commonly used. It is an electronic dataprocessing device that performs tasks, such as mathematical calculations or electronic
communication, under the control of a set of instructions called a program. Programs usually
reside within the computer's main memory and are retrieved and processed by the
computer's electronics, and the program results are stored or routed to output devices, such as
video display monitors or printers.
Point of Sale System (POS) a computerized network operated by a main computer and
linked to several checkout terminals. POS software records each sale when it happens, so your
inventory records are always up-to-date. Better still, you get much more information about the
sale than you could gather with a manual system. By running reports based on this information,
you can make better decisions about ordering and merchandising.
1.2 Background of the Study
Solano Bicycle Center, owned and managed by Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Catama Sr., is a
business establishment located at Gen. A. Luna Street, Poblacion South, Solano, Nueva Vizcaya.
Mr. Catama, which is a bicycle repairman in her Aunts bicycle shop, came up with the idea of
building this type of business. Solano Bicycle Center was founded on February 1991, with only
five bicycles to sell. It has been operating for over 23 years and also has a branch located at the
same street and barangay. They sell bicycles for kids and adults, surplus japan bicycle, bicycle
parts and accessories. They also accept bicycle repair. The shop provides customer satisfaction,
the reason why it becomes a success to the owners. As a result, Solano Bicycle Center not only
have customers in Nueva Vizcaya, but also outside the province like Ifugao and Isabela.
Point of Sales System of Solano Bicycle Center is manually done since it was
established. The owner is responsible in making the monthly sales report and inventory by
manually searching for the informations that are kept to filing cabinet, files like sales transaction
and purchased order. The owner uses calculator in computing the sales, manually writing a
receipt for the customer and manually searching for the availability of the products. The owner
believes that todays technology is offering enough for them to achieve the said goal.

1.3 OBJECTIVES
General Objectives
To design and construct a Point of Sale system in Solano Bicycle Center to
improve their managing technique and customer service.
To creatively and collaboratively create an automated system that would take care
of the Point of Sale in Solano Bicycle Center.
Given a small amount of time to submit this project, we should come up with a
design using various Windows-based programs.
Specific Objectives
Easily record sales transactions, manages item pricing and offered discounts.
To design a relational database for Point of Sale System
Primary interface and programming will be implemented with Visual Basic.

1.4 Statement of the problem

Solano Bicycle center is working under manual method which sometimes causes
customer dissatisfaction because of the slow process on how they transact to their customers and
some errors that are not expected. With this manual method, the owner interested in finding ways
that can help to improve their customer services.
In this study, the researcher will hopefully come up with a proposed solution to outdate
the existing problems encountered in the current system.
1.5 Proposed Solution
After the researchers have analyzed and discussed the problem regarding the Point of
Sale of Solano Bicycle Center, the researcher aims to present a paradigm of dealing with the
problems by creating an automated Point of Sale System.
1. Use Visual Programming
The researcher will be using Visual Basic. Net as a tool to manipulate data in the
database created from Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Since Visual Basic is object-oriented it
could improves database features and add-ons to design. This tool use objects like forms,
command buttons, navigation bars, text boxes, etc.
2. Users Manual
The group will use Visual Basic help file as a tool to create a built in help to guide the
users on how to operate the Point of Sale System Software.

3. Security Level
The users will be given a level of security in accessing database, either as an
Administration, so they cannot manipulate all the data in the database.
1.6 Significant of the Study
This study aims to provide a Point of Sale System for the Solano Bicycle Center that
would be able to augment the efficiency and accuracy of the data processing. This deems to
make necessary changes in their current system in order to reduce time consumption and
underlying errors in the job.
For the researcher, a computer engineering student, who will be specializing mostly in
programming and designing in the future, the development of a Point of Sale System, will be
beneficial in boosting and discovering more knowledge in the field and thus will be a
challenging comprehensive training in the part of the researcher.

1.7 Scope and Delimitation

The scope of which dwells in the Documentation and Prototyping of a custom-built
computer-based system- in our discretion, have come up with a propose Point of Sale System of
Solano Bicycle Center.
Due to the time constrains, the developers are expected not to come up with the fully
tested, complete program package but a prototype to present the interface and functionality the
design has lain out.
The use of the proposed Point of Sale System can only be used by Mr. Henry Catama,
who is the main client of the project.

NAME OF MEMBERS
Mejia, Winie Joy Bungubung
Orpia, Jennylyn Jore
Galvan, Michelle Jean Gonzales
Catama, Hanilen Gaffud