Security

In Video Shoppe, security is a must. Unfortunately, you just can't trust people anymore, especially when you're hiring people that you don't know, and even some you do know. Over the years we have added security to prevent theft. But we can't think of how people are going to steal, so we rely on our customers to let us know how their bad employees have used the software to steal.

There are 2 kinds of security in our software. One method of security involves tracking what the clerk is doing using logs. If a clerk changes a price in manual mode, that item is tracked in history as an exception, and the entire transaction record will have an exception flag attached to it.

Also, if the clerk is going into the program and ringing up totals, yet backing out and cancelling the items on the screen, those keystrokes are recorded so you can tell if a clerk is doing that kind of thing on a regular basis.

This log also creates an entry every time there is a standard message displayed on the screen. Messages screens logged are not alert screens built into the program, but standard screens like when you delete or change a record there is a message asking if you are sure When you print a report, there is a message asking if you want to preview. Or if  there is an error message asking you to retry or ignore.

Go to File, Program Log to view the last 30 days of log entries.

The second kind of security is preventative security. This is where you stop certain levels of clerks from doing things in certain areas of the program. Password Security Levels and Password Maintenance work together so you can protect viewing of sensitive data in reports or on the screen, allowing or disallowing price changes, and protecting editing of certain data.