In our very first newsletter, we talked about an upcoming feature called Sticky Fees. This feature was implemented due to the PaintCare organization mandating a fee to be attached to all paint cans. Now that the feature is within TransActPOS, it can be used for much more than just paint cans. You can attach any fee item to any inventory item if you wish to do so. These fees could be a core charge for a battery or a pallet charge for buying a pallet of any given product.

The first step in having a fee item is to create an inventory entry for the fee to be attached. This item can be "stuck" to any inventory item and will change with the quantity sold. Go to IC | Inventory File and click the Add button. On the Add Wizard, enter an Item ID (Fee, for example) and a short description. Once this is done, you can click Save to complete the entry. Once you are back to the Inventory screen of the newly created Fee item, click the Edit button. Choose "Fee Item" from the Item Type field and enter a retail price for the fee. Click Save and the fee item will be completed and ready to be assigned to an inventory item.

Locate the item you wish to assign the newly created fee by clicking the Find button within the Inventory File and searching your inventory. Once the item you want is located, select it. In the lower right corner of the item screen is a box titled "Fee Item." To attach the fee item, click the edit button and then the first button in this "Fee Item" box. This will bring up a Select Item screen. Clicking the Find button will allow you to locate the fee item you created previously and attach it to this item. Once the item is located, you confirm it by clicking the Select button. It is now attached to the main inventory item, but you aren't done just yet. The second button in this box determines at what quantity the fee is applied. Clicking it brings up the Unit of Measure Selector. If the inventory item is a 12 pack but sold at an each, you may only want the fee to be applied when someone buys the 12 pack. In this case, you would enter the unit of measure 12PK. Once the fee item has been attached and a UOM has been assigned, you can click the Save button and the process is complete.