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Introduction
College and university campuses face many of the same problems as a small
city. In fact, in many ways the problems can be even more daunting because of the
need to keep detailed records for each of the campus’ user’s full and part time students.
Point of Sale is a pre – payment system that will allow the cafeteria to meet
menu planning and sales. It is also used to eliminate the need for cash on a daily basis
thereby speeding up meal service.
Electronic cash is but the latest chapter in the long history of electronic fund
transfer (EFT), which started when the Western Union made the first such transfer in
1860. This transfer was based on a technology, the telegraph, itself more than a decade
old at the time.
The used of personal checks dates back to the 19th century. In the late 1950s
credit cards began to capture an ever greater share of the payments conducted by
average consumers. Since the late 1980s, debit cards have further lowered the
threshold for EFT and have, particularly in Canada, achieved high popularity.
The advent of electronic money has been envisioned by the financial industry
since the late 1960s, when the chequeless-cashless, even moneyless society, was
announced for the first time (Richardson 1970). However, for decades this vision has
remained somewhat distant because only the management and handling of money
developed, through instruments such as credit cards and, more recently, Automated
Teller Machines (ATM), debit cards and phone banking. Technological innovation has
been limited to the institutional sector and to account transfer systems, while the actual
bearer instrument coins and bills have remained unchanged.
Debit or stored-value cards are one form of pre – loaded incentive game. In debit
cards, the award value is stored in the recipient’s name, as though the recipient had
opened a bank account, with individual numbers for each recipient.) In almost all cases,
award value accumulates on an individual’s card as the incentive program progresses.
We firmly believed that this study will drive the fast growing technology upward.
This is just like an ATM card that first it’s beyond imagination, but at this time ATM cards
makes the worlds go round. People are used to bring their ATM cards where ever they
go and these studies will also a break through that people will look forward to. This study
will benefit both the consumer and the cafeteria management. Firmness of business,
base of jobs, security, efficiency, are just some of the advantages that will help the
management and users when this project will be implemented.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
This study deals with the Computerized Pre-Payment Point of Sale System for
School Café.
1.1.1 Age
1.1.2 Gender
1.1.3 Civil Status
1.1.4 Citizenship
4. How the proposed systems improved the efficiency and effectiveness of the
present system?
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
General:
This study intends to provide the entire school Food Caterers with an
efficient, faster and economical system for School Cafes regarding to faster service for
students.
Specific:
1. This study will minimize or eliminate the waiting time of students to purchase meals,
meal ala carte or school supplies during school breaks.
3. This study will use a swipe card technology to read the barcode in school identification
card in order to easily access the students’ accounts for whatever transactions it might
be.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
INPUT
Interview /
Questionnaires
PROCESS
OUTPUT
COMPUTERIZED
Technology Access DEBIT SYSTEM FOR Analyze Customer’s
(Swipe/Barcode) Procedure SCHOOL Data Information
s CAFETERIA
Evaluate Collected
Information
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The USER. In the part of the user, the work will be a lot faster and easier, at the same
time errors in handling of cash will be minimized or can be totally avoided. The
accounting process of the cash in the register will also be faster.
The RESEARCHER. Advance technology has the potential to expand or widen the
knowledge of the researcher. It will give experiences and to learn its importance.
The MANAGEMENT. In the part of the management, this will make the job easier with
an assurance of accuracy and reliability.
OTHERS. The study will give them ideas, inspirations and better perceptions about this
new concept that will benefit future studies. It will help the business to improve such
systems and make them more profitable and efficient in terms of processing accounts,
data and service with the greater accuracy that will help them complete and to create
another steps towards the stiff competition in the observation of global and changes.
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
• This study focuses on the system that will track records of the students who will
be having their menu form the school cafeteria without using cash to purchase
their meal but with the ID barcode with their personal information.
• It provides a graphical environment in which you visually design the forms and
controls that become a building blocks of the application and support many
useful projects, forms, class objects, templates, customs, add-ins and database
managers’ for tracking and processing information.
• The system is limited to the private schools with pre-elementary and elementary
levels.
• The system will automatically display a notice when the student’s balance is less
than for a calculated expense for two weeks which is amounting 500 pesos.
• The inventory includes the raw meat, vegetables and ingredients. The chef will
determine how many servings the raw meat, ingredients and vegetables can do
and the number of serving will be the one to be entered in the inventory to get the
accurate output of the raw food to be cooked and to be served.
Limitation
There are other things that the researcher would like to add in the limitation of the
system:
• The school should set different break schedules to make sure that all students on
break can be served.
• The system includes the training for the cafeteria staff. The author of the system
will facilitate the training covering the basic computer operations that are
applicable for the system, simple troubleshooting and how to use the system
itself.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Barcode – a code consisting of a group of printed and variously patterned bars and
spaces and sometimes numerals that is designed to be scanned and read into computer
memory as identification for the object it labels.
Cash Register – a business machine that usually has a money drawer, indicates the
amount of each sale, and records the amount of money received and often automatically
makes change.
Payback Period – a return on an investment equal to the original capital outlay; also the
period of time elapsed before an investment is recouped
Point of Sale (POS) – it is a pre-payment system that will allow the cafeteria to meet
menu planning and sales
Chapter 2
Review of Related Literature and Studies
This chapter presents literature and studies that are relevant to the present study. This
is to analyze the technology being used and the concept of using debit system results in
the identification of broad topics:
Foreign Literature
For more then a decade there have been predictions of the elimination of
physical cash as a transaction medium and the substitution of one form or another of an
electronic payments system. Some forecaster view the prospect with delight, looking on
it as increasing the efficiency of the economy. Others behold it with foreboding,
anticipating it to be another way in which the details of our lives become subject o
scrutiny.
Debit cards have been available for years. They represent a true payment
means since the amount of the purchase is taken from an account belonging to the
costumer. Despite they’re being some 40 million-debit cards in use, the relative volume
of purchase made with them is minuscule. (Lipin, 1993)
Use of debit cards seems likely to grow in the rest of the nineties. Many
banks have been reluctant to issue them in the past because of technical problem and
the perceived difficulty of making them profitable. (Hansel, 1989) However, both visa
and MasterCard have launched campaigns to gain extensive use of their debit cards.
(Lipin, 1993)
These campaign encompass trying to sign up more banks as issuers and
educating consumers in their use. They have also been seeking additional outlets, which
haven’t traditionally taken credit cards, including taxi cabs and fast food outlets. ( Violino,
1993) Even welfare recipients may be using debit cards if the program in Maryland
spreads to other areas. (Simons, 1993)
The cashless society, then seems a far distant vision, only a few years
closer to fulfillment than when first expounded many years ago.
With debit cards, the award value is stored in the recipient’s name, as
through the recipients had opened a bank account and been issued an ATM card.
(Actually, the awarding company has a group account, with individual numbers for each
recipient.) In almost all cases, award value accumulates on an individual’s card as the
incentive progresses. One exception is S&H Citadel’s Best of everything card, which can
be issued in various denominations sort of an electronic gift certificate.
This chapter presents the methodologies and design applied by the researcher
on the study. Including both interpretation of data and the developing of the system.
Research Design
The study made used of the descriptive research method. The choice of this
study lies in a fact finding with adequate description, analysis, and interpretation of the
Computerized Debit System for School Cafeteria.
The method used is concern with conditions of relations that exist; practices that
prevail; beliefs, process that are going on the effects that are being left, or trends that
rare developing.
Subjects of the Study. Subjects from the study will be drawn from CLARK
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. In the proposed
system, there will be one cashier using the system in every school. All respondents will
be assessed accordingly in their changing attitudes that occurred the given time.
1. Research Instruments. To come up with a very significant result, several
instruments will be used in gathering data for study. Since the study involves developing
a new system, more comprehensive analysis of data will be needed.
The study will make of the following instruments:
1.1 Questionnaire. The main instrument that will be used in the study is the
survey questionnaire. This instrument helps illicit information relative to assessment of
Computerized Debit System for School Cafeteria. On the development aspect of the
study, this technique, allows the researcher to gather reliable information, attitudes,
behaviors, beliefs and characteristics from several key people in the organization who
may be affected by the current and proposed system.
An important factor affecting the quality of the services given by the institution are
the school administrators and parents. With this regard, the researcher will develop
items in the questionnaire to measure both parents and cafeteria personnel. The
questionnaire will be divided into several parts:
Statistical Procedures
The study will be using the following statistical procedures to determine the
effectiveness of the instrument that will be using.
Frequency Count Distribution. Tabulation of scores showing the number of
individuals occurs at each class interval arranges from highest to lowest or vice-versa.
Percentage. It use as a descriptive statistics to describe the relationship of a pair
of variables with respect to the whole. The general formula to complete is as follows.
P=f X 100
N
Where:
P = percentage
F = frequency
N = total number of the respondents
Ranking. This is use to reinforce the description of percentage and weighted
mean in order to determine the position and importance of items or subjects analyzed.
Mean. That is used to described the numeric measures and properties of items
being analyzed. Mean scores of the control and experimental groups were also as
follows:
X = ZX
N
Where:
X = the mean
ZX = sum of all scores
N = total number of cases of scores
3. System Development Methodology
Methods in Creating the System. The researcher made used of the Analyst’s
Tools (Data Flow Diagram) as well as the instructional Design Model during the
developing of the system. The user’s manual will be develop to describe the whole
system and guide the users when the system is implemented.
3.1 Data Flow Diagram. DFD is graphical illustration of a system, which contains
symbols that indicate specific operation to be informed. This tool served as the birds eye
views that show the flow of data and logic within a system.
Planning Phase
Systems Plan. In the world of computer age and wireless payments, the future
of school cafeteria should be paralleled to the information technology of today. Because
of this, the old system should be replaced and to create a new system
Analysis Phase
Requirement Analysis Specification. The computerized Debit System will
replace the traditional cash registers currently being used in the cafeteria during lunch
lines. The new system is a computerized debit system that allows student’s to pay in
advance for meals, a la carte foods or school supplies. Students will still be able to pay
cash on a daily basis as they have in past. The system works with School Identification
card using their Identification number to access their account.
After the identification number encoded in the system, the system will identify if
the student has required amount balance to accommodate his/her orders if not the
system will allow the student to pay cash or have a credit limitation,
The system requires the Identification cards to have barcodes for easy access to
the system. Also requires future menu planning so that the menu list will be entered to
the system. It also requires encoding of list of products ordered in hand for easy
inventory of products.
The equipment will be replacing the old cash register, instead of cash, the user
(cashier) will be entering the identification numbers of students using the barcode reader
to fasten the line.
Design Phase
System Design Specification
In order to obtain a feasible, accurate and faster development of the system the
system has the following specifications.
In hardware specification, the personal computer must consist of the following
peripherals. The processor must be with minimum of Pentium 3 or above, must have
128MB of memory or higher, 10 Gigabytes of hard disk space must have Network
Interface (NIC) installed for network ready, a mouse, barcode swiper or reader and
standard keyboard.
In software specification, the personal computer must have the following
software installed. The operating system must be Windows 98 or higher operating
system, SQL Server version 7 for Database Management.
For designing the system, the following software will be used to create user
friendly and to accommodate present and future storing of data. Visual Basic version 6
will be used for user interfaces, SQL Server version 7 for database management, Crystal
Report version 7 for up to date reports, and other OCX and DLL ‘s support the entire
system.
Development Phase
In this phase the new system is in place (Computerized Debit System).
The researcher will look for vendors who can or suppliers who will be able to provide
necessary equipment for the systems requirements like Computer Unit, barcode readers
or scanners, price display and receipt printer at a reasonable price afterwards and the
researcher will make recommendation to the school management.
Implementation Phase
System Implementation
A major task in the system implementation phase is the development of
changeover timetable. This study chooses the gradual changeover approach where in
the new system is introduced is steps. As one part of the new system is tested and
perfected, the portion of the old system is phased out. This process continues until the
new system is fully implemented.
A gradual changeover has many advantages one of which is, it reduces the
chances of unexpected total system failure.
Cost Analysis
Comparative Analysis:
Payback Method
Payback method is a method to determine the time required to recover the
money spent on a project.
F = P (1 + i) n
P = F / (1 + i) n
Legend:
F = future value of an investment
P = present value of an investment
I = interest rate/ compounding period
N = the number of compounding periods
Chapter 4
Project Conceptualization
Company Background
Mission Statement
The needs of the industry is not only skillful individual, it also
requires people totally responsible, trustworthy and hardworking. The Philippines, as on
of the developing countries, must focus on the capability of its people that are known to
be innovative and skillful. It has to align the needs of the industry to the skills and
expertise of the people. Thus, students should have to educate exactly what the industry
needs and educating students on what exactly they want to become. Clark international
college of science and technology is sensitive to this matter and therefore takes upon
itself the mission of producing graduates that posses the right attitudes, skills and
knowledge needed for the development of the country. To this, CICST is committed to:
1. Provide students with the optimum training skill to meet the need of
the industry and
2. Provide all its graduates the maximum support in acquiring
employment.
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