GARAGE SALE

ver. 2.4

Start Mode

—— CAUTION ——    
S T A R T   F R E S H
Click to delete seller names and
set all stored totals to 0.00.		        C O N T I N U E
Click to retrieve seller names and totals
stored during the previous session.

  Browsers to use – see HELP below..

Seller01 Amount Total this sale  0.00 Grand total  0.00
List of amounts:
Seller02 Amount Total this sale  0.00 Grand total  0.00
List of amounts:
Seller03 Amount Total this sale  0.00 Grand total  0.00
List of amounts:
Seller04 Amount Total this sale  0.00 Grand total  0.00
List of amounts:
Seller05 Amount Total this sale  0.00 Grand total  0.00
List of amounts:
Seller06 Amount Total this sale  0.00 Grand total  0.00
List of amounts:

 

•—•—•—  H E L P  —•—•—•

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A.  Browsers to use

  1. Google Chrome 1
  2. Internet Explorer 2
  3. Microsoft Edge 2
  4. Opera 1
  5. Safari
  6. Firefox 3 — (do not use)

1 Both Google Chrome and Opera have a minor problem.  If you type in an amount that is exactly the same as the previous amount entered for the same seller, these browsers will not allow you to enter it.  But there is an easy solution:  Enter the same amount in a different form.  For example, if the previous amount was 4.50 and you need to enter another 4.50, enter it as 4.5 or as 4.500.

2 You may need to change settings within Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge so they will allow scripted prompting.

3 Do not run this Garage Sale program using Firefox.  Firefox may lose its localStorage after computer shutdown.  (localStorage is explained below).

B.  General Description

This Garage Sale web page is programmed to help you keep records at a typical neighborhood garage sale where you are selling items brought in by several sellers.  By entering amounts on the appropriate sellers' lines, each seller's total is calculated and recorded.

Each time you type in and enter an amount for a particular item you are selling, the "this sale" totals are calculated immediately so you know how much to collect from the buyer.  After you have entered one or several amounts for a particular sale and have collected your money for that sale, be sure to click on the  ←Clear Total↓ Store  button.  This button does three things:

  1. Clears the "this sale" totals allowing you to begin entering amounts for the next sale.
  2. Adds the sellers' totals to their grand totals and to the overall grand total.
  3. Stores seller names, grand totals, and overall grand total in browser localStorage (explained below).

C.  Entering sale amounts

Do not enter $ or comma.

For each sale, enter one amount or several amounts, possibly spread among several sellers.  After typing an amount into the "Amount" entry box, either hit Enter, or click outside the entry box.

Important:  All amounts must be entered as dollars.  For example, enter 45¢ as .45.  Besides entering dollars and cents (e.g., 4.25) you can enter whole dollars without the .00.  You can also enter half dollars using just .5 (rather than.50).

Each amount (and the exact way you entered it) is shown in the "List of amounts" for each seller.  This allows you to check what you entered earlier in a particular sale.

D.  Using Garage Sale offline

Your computer does not need to remain connected to the internet to run this program.  The program does not communicate with the internet server.  This page uses client side programming, which means that the program is part of the page rather than being run from a server.

You can easily make your own copy of the page (which includes the program) on your own computer.  While the page is on screen, simply right click anywhere on the page and select "Save Page As," navigate to the desired location (perhaps the desktop), and save the file there.  Then when you want to use the page you can load it from your computer (without being connected to the internet) simply by opening the file you saved.  Read the "Warning" at the end of the section below entitled "Starting a new session after a previous session."

E.  localStorage

The term localStorage is programming lingo which refers to the fact that the information saved from this web page's program is stored on your computer, not on an internet server.  The browser's localStorage stores information on your system so you can start your next session by retrieving that information from your previous session.

If you happen to have more than one computer using this web page at the same garage sale, keep in mind that each computer is independent of the other(s).  You are not storing anything on the internet, and the computers are not interacting with each other.  To get your totals at the end of the day, you will have to add up the totals reported on each computer.

F.  Printing/saving totals

If your computer is connected to a printer, you can print the page using your browser's "File" menu.

If your computer is not connected to a printer, most browsers will allow you to either "print to PDF" or "save as PDF."

G.  Starting a new session after a previous session:

When you first open up the "Garage Sale" web page, or when you start again after shutting the computer down, (or if you simply make the mistake of hitting the browser's reload button), you will be asked if you want to continue a previous session, or start fresh.

  1. "CONTINUE" — Clicking this will place the seller names and totals from your previous session on screen.  Or,
  2. "START FRESH" — Clicking this deletes all stored names and totals from your previous session.  (It assumes you have made your own record of those sellers and totals.)

Warning: In order to retrieve totals from a previous session, you must use the same browser you used in that previous session, and you must start the web page from the sale location (internet or local file).