Gasboy CFN III Mgnr's Mnl V3.4 - Manual (Page 156)

Fuel Allocation and Miles-Per-Gallon
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Miles Per Gallon System
The miles-per-gallon system is part of the Fleet Options package (which is briefly described in
the Optional packages chapter in this manual). The MPG system tracks fuel-usage
information for customers who use cards. It tracks the total fuel used during a period, and it
can also track the miles per gallon and the dollars spent per mile. For the MPG system to work
properly, the customer must fuel at your site every time.
How to Set Up an MPG System
You set up the system by assigning a vehicle number to each customer with a proprietary card
or bank card, then tracking the fuel-usage information by vehicle number. This means you can
provide this service to all customers who use cards to purchase fuel.
There are two ways for the vehicle number to be entered during a fuel purchase. It can be
encoded on proprietary cards, so the number is entered automatically when the card is read.
Or, you can have the customer enter the number manually at the card reader. For customers
who use bank cards, the number must be entered manually.
To set up the system, follow these steps:
• In the CFN3 configuration, define the number of digits in the vehicle number and the
location of the vehicle number within the account number. Refer to the chapter on System
parameters in MDE-4316 CFN III Configuration Manual for instructions.
• Encode a unique vehicle number on each proprietary card in the location you specified in
configuration. Make sure you keep track of the vehicle numbers you assign and the
customers to whom they are assigned.
• If you want to track only the fuel usage, and not miles driven, set up the reader terminal to
not request the odometer reading, set up the proprietary card restriction code to not require
an odometer entry, set retries to 0, and use the LOAD VEHICLE command explained in
this chapter to enter an initial odometer reading of zero for all vehicle numbers.
• If you want to track odometer readings to calculate miles per gallon and dollars per mile,
set up the reader terminal to request the customer’s odometer reading at the time of sale,
but let the odometer entry be optional. Also, configure the Site Controller for the number
of times the customer can re-enter the odometer reading to try to be within a reasonable
range of the reading at the last fueling, and how the Site Controller will handle an out-of-
range entry.
When a customer enters an odometer reading that indicates the miles driven are outside
the range of miles specified in configuration for all vehicles, the Site Controller allows the
customer to try again as many times as you specify in configuration. Once the customer
has exhausted the retry limit, the Site Controller will accept the reading. The printout for
that vehicle will indicate the odometer reading was BAD. The Site Controller can be
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