Dennis,
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that sounds like a matter of policy. If there is a single computer, or only company-owned computers doing the burning, then it comes down to establishing a policy that only accounted media be used to fulfill customer orders. Not only does this resolve the issue of determining how many discs are being burned and sent out, it establishes a cost basis for expense accounting requirements associated with operating the business.
Now, if you’re implying that employees might be burning CDs as a personal… er, profit center, then that is a different matter. Policy won’t matter much in that case, since they are ripping off the company to begin with. If you have anyone with programming and administration experience, they can arrange to make the company burner(s) unavailable without accessing a program which changes applicable registry entries and which also logs the burn. This is not trivial, so absent in-house talent you may wish to contract with an outside party.
Cheers,
Scott
Dennis Hughes wrote:
Scott,
That was suggested, but the employee might bring their own CDs. The company owns the computer.
Dennis
"Scott Glasgow" wrote in message
Dennis Hughes wrote:
I have a friend who has a small company whose employees take pictures of people involved in sports activities.
Then offer prints and CD to the customers.
She is looking to implement a counter to record the number of CDs that are burned each day. Does such a thing exist?
Thanks,
Dennis
Don’t know any simple way to do it unless the burning software provides such a function. OTOH, you could acquire a macro recorder and automate the burning process. Have the macro invoke the burning software and increment a counter each time it does so. Like I said, not simple, but doable. Curiosity question: Why not simply inventory the CD’s at the
beginning and end of each day, making sure to put aside for accounting any bad burns. Seems to me you get an accurate accounting that way no matter who’s doing the burning or when it is done.
Cheers,
Scott
