Stuck on a program creation assignment utilising Visual C++, - c++

Question

I am Brand New to programming, Ienter code here have an assignment to do, based on this image and question here, " A local electronics store allows items to be purchased on hire purchase. The hire purchase option
requires a deposit of one fifth of the cash price. There is an interest charge of 10% on the
balance.
Consider the following example: A customer wishes to purchase a Dell Inspiron 15-inch laptop,
with an i5 processor and 8 GB RAM, for $3500. The item code is 12345 and the customer
chooses to pay via two years of hire purchase.
The program operates as follows:
Write a program, HirePurchase, which prints the invoice for an item on hire purchase as
detailed above. The program prompts for the item code, cash price and the number of years on hire
purchase. enter image description here
I have begun but every time I try to run the program only a piece of it presents itself on screen. I'm very sorry if this seems basic but I'm interested in programming.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main () {
int NumberMonthHirePurchase,ItemCode,NumberYearHirePurchase;
double CashPrice,Deposit,MonthlyInstall,NewbalanceOne, NewBalanceTwo;
cout<<"Please enter the Item Code:2768N3496YHG";
cin>>ItemCode;
cout<<"Please enter the cash price of the item:6,264";
cin>>CashPrice;
cout<<"Please enter the Number of Years Hire Purchase:1";
cin>>NumberYearHirePurchase;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"item details"<<endl;
cout<<"Item code:2768N3496YHG"<<ItemCode<<endl;
return 0;
}
this is what I have so far but only "please enter the item code" is appearing and nothing else. I don't know if it's because I am doing something wrong, can someone please assist, would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The variable ItemCode is an int. That means cin>>ItemCode will read only 2768 from the input. The rest of the input, N3496YHG, will be left in the input buffer for the remaining input to read.
However, since the next input is to read a floating point value, and N3496YHG is not a valid floating point value, nothing will be read and an error flag will be set on the input stream.
Since the error flag is now set on the stream, the third attempt to read something (the integer for NumberYearHirePurchase) will not do anything at all.
To solve this, the ItemCode should be a string, using std::string.
Also note that input of floating-point values doesn't have to use the comma , as decimal separator. It depends on the settings of your computer.
Of course, the above is only valid if you actually try to input something. If you don't input anything, the program will appear to stand still as it patiently waits for your input.