Simple billing system.

I need to develop a simple billing system to calcalate a unit price, with tax and without. And notify the user if there are any overdue fines associated with the customer?

Any ideas that could put mt in the right direction would be great.I'm kinda press for time, and still learning about VB.

Thanks
Derek
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I think you have one of 3 options :

Option 1
Use Microsoft Access. The reasons for using this are as follows. It is more easily available than full blown Visual Basic, has facilities built in for the database and for creating reports, forms and the like and if you need to do it quickly (and I admit quite poorly) this would get you out of a bind fairly quickly.

Option 2
Use Visual Basic. Of course you know this but the best thing to do before actually using visual basic is to sit down and write out everything you need your system to do, try to group it into specific tasks, work out what data you need to record in the database and how you are going to store it and then set about writing the program one tiny piece at a time... break it down into smaller tasks until they are all put together to form the application.

Option 3
Buy something off the shelf or ShareWare. If you are really strapped for time and you want something that will do roughly what you want but you might have to bend some of your rules on go and have a look at places like www.softseek.com and www.shareware.com and see if someone else has written something that matches pretty much what you are after to use until you can write your own VB application to do it exactly right.