Selling stock at point of sale

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Summary

This article explains how invoice stock using Point of Sale.

Details

Get into "Counter Operations" -> "Point of Sale"

  • At the "Employee:" Enter your Employee code (usually your initials) and press <Enter>.
  • Scan or type in the Stock Code that you want to sell and <Enter> If you do not know the stock code then type a description of the item you want to sell and press <Enter>. This will perform a search which you can choose from.
  • Enter the quantity and unit price and click <Add>
  • Repeat the above steps until all the items are in list.
  • Ensure the "Customer:" is either COU001 Default Counter Sales or you have created an account for customer. Please see How do I Find a Customer?
  • Click <Checkout> to finish and take the payment.
  • Choose the method of payment by clicking the relevant box "A,B,C" and click <Post> to print and accept the invoice.

Other Useful Features of Point of Sale

Applying A Discount

A Line Discount

  • Click onto the stock line you want to apply a discount to and click <Edit>
  • Enter the percentage discount and click <Done> to save the changes.

Blanket Discount

  • Underneath the "Customer:" is the "Discount:" enter the percentage discount as appropriate.

Price Seeker

This feature rounds up or rounds down the Total Retail Price of a line item or the whole invoice so that you can charge a fixed price. This has the advantage of adjusting all the stock lines so that the loss can be spread evenly and not just on one stock line.

  • Enter the parts required accordingly as described above.
  • Before you check out and after you enter the correct customer, click <Target>.
If you change the customer after you have Targeted the price, the system changes the price back to default!
  • Press <Tag> and tag each stock line that qualifies for the reduction.
  • Click <Seek>
  • Enter the total into the "Price Seek Total:" box because this is far quicker than trying to work out the nett, unless you already know the nett.
  • Click <Calculate> and <Done>.
  • Click <Accept>
  • Proceed to check out accordingly with the new price.

Credit Previous Sale

You can quickly credit a previous sale using this option rather than manually entering the stock in with minus quantity's.

  • Change the Customer to the customer account that the items were sold to and click <Credit Previous Sales F3>.
  • It defaults to today's date, Click <Advanced> to enter a different date or search the document/invoice number.
  • Click <Choose> to proceed to credit the invoice.
  • This will enter all the parts on with negative quantity's. If all items are to be credited then check out or remove items accordingly and then check out.