Price Levels Department Setup

There are 5 alternate selling prices for each item sold at the POS.

• Each alternate price is set on a 'Price Level.'
• The Price Level's default calculation for any item is contained in its Department.
• Each item can have custom levels set individually or take the Department defaults.
• If a price change is made to an item, the alternate prices recalculate only if the item is not set to a custom pricing status.

There are two ways to setup the discount price level calculations by Department.

The simplest way to setup a Department's default Price Levels is to go into the Back Office Menu - Setup - Store - Departments.

• You can then setup the % Off and Dollar Off 'Default Price Levels' for each department. In the above example, the Beer's promotional level is 10% off regular price. There are no other levels setup.
• When an item is added to the system, or has it's price changed, the system will look to the Department that the item is linked to, in order to determine the prices that go into each of the 5 alternate price levels.

To make it more convenient to do changes on all of the departments, rather than editing one at a time, we provide a Matrix as part of the Price Level Schedule form.

So the second way to maintain the department defaults is to choose 'Setup - POS Lanes - Price Levels Schedule' from the Main Menu.
This will open the eStream POS Lane Price Level Schedule' form.
The Price Level Scheduler form will show by default.

• Then click on the 'Department Price Levels' button.

This displays the Department Discount Setup matrix.

 This utility has the following options;

• If a Discount Level is setup in the green section, it can be applied Globally to ALL departments. In the above example, if the 'Apply Globally' button was clicked, a 10% discount would be applied to each Department for the Wholesale Level ONLY and all the items pricing in the file would be recalculated for that level.
  e.g an Item worth $10.00 would be set to $8.90, all other levels would remain at $10.00.
  
• If a department Range is chosen (By clicking on the start and end departements in the range) the discount setup in the Green section will only be applied to that range of departments when the 'Apply to Departments Range' button is clicked.
• If you wish to remove all alternate prices from all levels, click on the 'Remove all Levels' button.

Any item can be setup as a Custom Pricing item, using the POS Options in Inventory - Item Maintenance.

• Once an item is flagged this way, then changes to the Department matrix will no longer affect it.

• After a while it can be difficult to keep track of all the custom changes so a report is supplied to help you do this.
• Click on the Price Level Scheduler's form's 'Custom Priced Items' Tab to see the Print button for that report.

To reset all custom pricing to default levels, click on the 'Reset All Custom items' button on the same form.