Getting Started > Creating Your Company

POSitive will add your company to this Choose Company window and additional companies if you wish to keep them all under one program installation. Multiple Companies - Each company needs to be licensed separately. When a new version of the program is available, upgrading just this one installation will upgrade all companies.

Purpose

This screen serves as an access to select or create your own company data.

TIP: Contact your dealer if you would like a "Training" copy of your data installed for helping new employees learn the use of POSitive.

Company List - All companies available through this installation of POSitive.

Description - Your company name.

Select - After highlighting the desired company, this will launch POSitive using this data.

Create New - Creates a new data set utilizing a New Company Wizard.

Company Details, Server & Database Name - In the lower left corner is the name, address and phone number of the highlighted company at right. Also displayed is the name of your SQL server, the name of the database, and an ID number for the company.

How To Choose A Company

1) Highlight the company in the list.

2) Double Click, choose Select, or press "Enter".

How To Create A New Company

1) Click on the "Create New" button.

2) A New Company Setup Wizard will walk you through the basics.

3) When you have finished with the Setup Wizard be sure to review the New Company Setup topic.

TIPS & TRICKS

There is a way to skip this choose company screen when running POSitive.

Edit the POSitive shortcut on your desktop and change the Target properties of the shortcut that opens POSitive to for example "C:\POSitive\PFB\pfb.exe /c1". The number after the "c" corresponds to the company ID (lower left corner of screen).