Selling Items by Weight

Selling Items by Weight

Retailer allows you to set items to require a weight when sold, either with an integrated weighing scale or manually with the keypad on-screen. This setting can be enabled by department, category, or individual stock items.

Department Default Setting

  1. From the main screen of Retailer, click on the Stock Maintenance menu -> Suppliers & Departments.
  2. Click on the magnifying glass icon to search for the department.
  3. Select the department and click OK.
  4. Tick Stock Items required to be weighed?
  5. Click Save.
  6. A warning message will appear asking "Do you want to update the "Weight Required" setting for all Categories in this Department, and all Stock in this Department and any of it's Categories?"
  7. Click Yes.

Category Default Setting

  1. From the main screen of Retailer, click on the Stock Maintenance menu -> Suppliers & Departments.
  2. Click on the magnifying glass icon to search for the department.
  3. Select the department and click OK.
  4. Click the Categories tab at the top.
  5. Click on the magnifying glass icon to search for the category within the department.
  6. Tick Stock Items required to be weighed?
  7. Click Save.
  8. A warning message will appear asking "Do you want to update the "Weight Required" setting for all Stock in this Category?"
  9. Click Yes.

Individual Stock Item Setting

  1. From the main screen of Retailer, click on Stock -> Stock Screen.
  2. Click on the magnifying glass icon to search for the stock item.
  3. Select the stock item and click OK.
  4. Click on the Other tab at the top of the screen.
  5. Tick Weight required when sold.
  6. Click Save.

Unit of Measure

The Sales UOM can be set to display items in the point of sale grid and on receipts with the correct form of measurement. E.g. Kilograms.

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