Flier: DeckTools User Guide (F-DTUSERGD12) - Simpson Strong-Tie

6DeckTools ®User Guide62To import pricing from Prism’s POS:1. Go to the Materials menu and select Import Prices from POS.• DeckTools will connect to Prism’s database and update the DeckTools materials priceswhere the SKU matches Prism’s SKU. You do not have to wait to use DeckTools becausethis update will perform as a background task.To export pricing to Prism’s POS:1. Go to Reports > Send to POS.• DeckTools will write an order file into the directory specified in the POS Config. This filewill be named .es1 where is an incrementing number to keep the filenames unique.2. Please use Prism’s Database to import the order file and ring up the customer.Note: Pricing is NOT automatically recalculated to reflect price changes between when theestimate or bill of materials was initially created and current prices.SpruceF-DTUSERGD12 ©2012 Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.To set up Spruce:1. Go to the Settings Tab in the Info Tabs.2. Go to Reports and set the value for the POS Configuration to Spruce: D:\POS.• POS Config should be set to Spruce. Then make sure there is a space after the colon. Thenthe DOS path where the order files will be written so they can be picked up by Spruce, addanother space, then the branch number (4 digits), add another space, and finally the SQLconnection string.3. Create the directory specified in POS Configuration (i.e. D:\POS ).• Example: Spruce: D: \POS 1000 DRIVER=SQL Server Native Client4. When DeckTools launches, the software will check for updated pricing data and update thepricing automatically and accordingly.• You can also manually select Import Prices from POS in the Materials menu to manuallyupdate pricing.To import pricing from Spruce:1. Go to the Materials menu and select Import Prices from POS.• DeckTools will connect to the SpruceWare.NET database and update the DeckToolsmaterials prices where the SKU matches the SpruceWare.NET SKU. You do not have towait to use DeckTools because this update will perform as a background task.