ER-A850. Training Tape Transcipt (Jan1998) - Sharp EPOS Handy Guide. Page 5

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The product code box will be highlighted ready for you to enter the
code.
This code can be 8 characters long and ideally it should end in a zero.
This is because the system uses modifiers and the end digit of the
product code looks at a modifier I will discuss the modifiers in more
detail later.
Basically they allow a half or double or any other measure of a product
to be sold.
You are probably familiar with this concept on other models but these
machines have 9 of these modifiers per product, giving much more
flexability.
  
The main advantage of these modifiers is to save on keyboard pre-sets.

Now enter a new code for example 10. Pressing the enter key will take
you to the next field
The description area will now be highlighted.
Up to 15 characters can be entered for each code.
The bar-code area is next, here you can assign one or more bar codes
to this product. Each time the bar-code is scanned or entered, this
product code will be sold.
If f2 is pressed, than all the bar-codes that have been programmed into
the machine will be displayed ready for your selection.
The modifier field is next, this will automatically  be completed by the
EPoS, depending on the last digit of the product code you have just
entered.

Next you allocate a department number that this code will be assigned
to, this is used for report purposes only, as there are no departments
keys on the keyboard.

Once you enter the department code the text for that department will
appear on the screen, informing you that you have made the correct
selection.

You will notice therefore, that the departments have to be set up before
the product codes, and also the groups must be set up before the
departments.