QL-PAY 6.0 (FP-14) Installation Instructions

2016 February

QL-PAY 6.0 requires the .Net Framework Version 4. The .Net Framework may 

be found at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download. QL-PAY 6.0 was 

developed on Windows 7 and may not run on other versions of Windows.

Antivirus software may not recognize QL-PAY as a legitimate application; 

it may prevent installation or prevent it from running correctly. There 

have been reports of antivirus software interfering with QL-PAY saving 

data to the hard drive. It is the user's responsibility to set the 

antivirus software to permit QL-PAY to operate. To do this, the user 

should refer to the instructions for the particular antivirus program.

Launch the program "instQLPAY.exe" in the root directory of the 

installation media.

A dialog box will come up with the choices:

 Install for the current user

 Install for all Users

 Cancel

The 'All User' option requires Administrator privileges.

When a user starts QL-PAY for the first time, the program will display a 

message that it will do a user-specific configuration.

Configuration settings can be changed from subitems of QL-PAY's File 

menu.

QL-PAY 6.0 Uninstallation Instructions

The QL-PAY uninstall program is accessible from the QL-PAY folder in the 

Start menu.

When the Uninstall program is launched, it will determine whether it 

belongs to a Single-User or All-User installation. This information will 

be displayed and the user will be given a chance to cancel or continue.

The Uninstall program will not remove 'Db', 'Import' or 'Export' 

directories that are not under the users' QL-PAY tree.

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Concurrency of QLPAY v6.0 and v 5.6

QLPAY 6.0 will install "beside" QPLAY 5.6 but cannot share its database.

To migrate data from QL-PAY 5.6 to QL-PAY 6.0, export it from QL-PAY 5.6, 

then import the Port (.xml) file into QL-PAY 6.0. (Data may be migrated 

from QL-PAY 6.0 to QL-PAY 5.6 similarly.)
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Concurrency of QLPAY v5.6 and v 5.4

QLPAY 5.6 will install "beside" QPLAY 5.4 and by default will share its 

database.

Uninstalling QLPAY v5.4 will remove the sample database. If you want to 

preserve the database while uninstalling v5.4:

 1. Find the location of the sample database by looking under QL-PAY's 

menu item: "File" | "DB (data) directory".

 2. Copy v5.4's qlpf5.qdb file to a safe location such as the desktop.

 3. Uninstall v5.4.

 4. Install v5.6. Do not enter any data.

 5. Find the location of the database by looking under QL-PAY's menu 

item: "File" | "DB (data) directory".

 6. Copy the version of qlpf5.qdb that you saved in step 2 to this 

location. v5.6 may have created a new instance of qlpf5.qdb database 

file; if so, overwrite it.

In both programs, the location of qlpf5.qdb can be found by looking in 

the menu item "File | Db (data) directory".

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Concurrency of QLPAY v5.4 and v 5.3

Since the only changes to v5.4 from v5.3 are related to installation and 

do not affect QL-PAY's operations, it is recommended that users migrate 

to v5.4 rather than maintain both versions.

For coexistence: Make sure that the v5.4 installation and user 

configuration directories do not conflict with v5.3 directories. The 

default installation directories of v5.4 will probably be OK. After v5.4 

is installed it can be launched from its menu entry and v5.3 can be 

launched by its desktop icon.

To migrate v5.3 data and templates to a v5.4 installation: In QL-PAY 

v5.4, note the path to the Db directory. In v5.3 look in the Defaults 

menu and note the paths for the Data and Resources directories. Using 

Windows Explorer, copy the contents of both directories to v5.4's Db 

directory. (Some files installed for v5.4 will be overwritten.) (If in 

QL-PAY v5.3 the Data and Resources paths are then set to the new location 

v5.3 should continue to work.) QL-PAY v5.4 will then use the data and 

templates inherited from v5.3.

Some settings can be transferred by copying v5.3's QLP.INI file to 

overwrite v5.4's version in %USERPROFILE&\QLPAY, but the two versions 

cannot conveniently be made to share the same QLP.INI file on an ongoing 

basis.