A one off special is a single item that has been marked at a reduced price for some reason, perhaps nearing end of shelf life. This works by creating a unique barcode for each special item and that barcode is good for us on one sale only. Once the sale is complete tbe barcode is disabled from future use.
Selling
Product has a store printed barcode/label. Operator scans the barcode which sells the item as normal but at a reduced price. Operator must scan the reduced label barcode.
- Barcode is stored in OneOffBarcodes table. On scan (sale complete?) it is removed from this table
- Stock levels are adjusted as normal, reduced price items are completely normal to the POS except for the price.
- Pricecause set
- Need to record time item sold for reporting purposes
- Barcode is invalidated in all store databases
Reduced items are normal in many respects. If they need to be written off as not sold, they are sold/written off using the reduced barcode
If a customer later returns a reduced item or claims it was not sold at reduced price, the reduced label can be scanned again - if it has already been sold the POS will report an error
Preparation
- Items to be reduced are physically collected.
- One (each?) item is scanned in POS and the reduced price entered. Actually, this might be a page on web browser instead of POS, this would mean iPads could be used at the display cabinet.
- Enter a reason for reduction to customer? eg "Expires soon".
- POS prints one label for each item, showing reduced price, reason and allocates/prints a unique barcode
- Barcode is stored into database, along with precise date/time, reason, price etc.
- Operator places store label over/near product barcode.
Requirements
A label printer is required. Preferably network connected