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Greetings!
Summer's nearly here, and the economy appears to be on the upswing. Are you in position to take advantage of the opportunities of the season?
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Summer Promotion Ideas
School is heading for another break, and people are preparing for their vacations. How you should deal with this partially depends on where you're located.
If you're in a tourist destination, target those tourists. A used bookstore in a beach town could sell grab bags for the beach; for example, placing three books of a similar genre together for a combined price.
If you're in an area with a lot of children, run events during the summer to draw them in. A bookstore could do readings, or a game store could have tournaments or play time of kid-friendly games. Time spent in your store will eventually translate to sales, and this can build loyalty among both current customers and future customers.
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Serial Numbers
A common
support question lately has been asking about tracking serial numbers
for big ticket and warrantied items. This feature is quite simple to
enable. In inventory maintenance on each item you want to track serial
numbers for, check the track serial numbers box under the optional tab.
(Remember to update each item you change!)
Once that's set,
anytime you sell or take in trade an item where serial numbers are
supposed to be tracked you will be prompted for the serial number. You
may then type it in, or scan it if the serial number is barcoded, and
the system will save that information. You may then look at serial
number reports (under reports -> inventory reports -> serial
number sales) or use the track serial number tool under tools ->
track serial numbers to view information on a specific serial number or
on general serial number sales.
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Purchase Orders
This feature
of Extreme POS allows you to easily track and recieve purchase orders
from various vendors. As a prerequisite to this, you must have the
vendor you are ordering from set up in the view -> vendors screen.
1. From
the main invoice screen, either hit <Ctrl + P> or go to the
Actions menu and then Purchase orders. You will see the Purchase Orders
screen.
2. Hit the add button. The screen for a specific order will appear.
3. Select a vendor from the list. Enter a due date in MM/DD/YYYY format. The other fields are for your reference, but
the first two are required by the software.
4. Hit the View/Add
Items tab to bring up a blank list of items to receive. You may add
items by doing a search for them
or by entering or scanning the bar code associated with them. Hit Save
to save the purchase order.
5. You may add to the order by selecting it from the main
purchase order screen and hitting edit. This will allow you to change the order as you like. When finished, hit
Update to save the changes.
6. When ready to receive the order, go into it as listed
in step 6 above. You may either receive
all items at once or receive line by line. Hitting update will update your inventory to reflect received
items. Hitting close will permanently
close the purchase order, and should be done once the order is fully
finished
and received. However, it is
irreversible, and so should only be done after checking for errors.
One trick that can be very useful if you have set yourself up
for it is searching for items that have fallen below their reorder
level. This is done on the advanced search screen by checking below
reorder point. You can even consider used items you have and things
you've put on Purchase Orders but not recieved this way! After you
search, you can either add items one by one or hit add all to PO in
order to add everything that meets the search to the purchase order.
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Instant Purchase
Orders
If the above is beyond
your needs, and you're looking for a quicker solution for receiving,
consider using Instant Purchase Orders. These will allow you to still
track inventory received and use average costing without as much
administration.
This can be accessed from two different places. In Inventory Maintenance, you can go to the tools tab and hit the
instant Purchase Order button; this will lock the instant to the
specific item that you were on when you entered the screen. Alternatively, if you have the item number, you can enter the screen
from the main invoice screen -> Actions -> Instant Purchase
Orders.
On this screen, you'll need to fill out a few small
pieces of information - Item number if you didn't come in through
inventory management, check the used box if you're getting in used
items, quantity received, and the cost per. You can select a vendor to
associate this order with, or none to associate it with no vendor.
Once
you've done that, hit receive to complete the instant purchase order.
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Thank You For Your Feedback!
Once more, thank you all for participating in the feedback requests of the last two months. We are always open to suggestions, which can be sent in to support@extremepos.com
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For customers on an update plan, the most recent version of the software is 2.06.0035.
Support is ending for versions 2.05.0048 and older of ExtremePOS, Musicware, and Praiz on December 1st, 2010. Get more information
Not supported? Get supported here!
You may view an archive of our emails here!
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Sincerely,
Jeremy Spencer
Support Manager
Extreme Point Of Sale Inc
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