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<!doctype HTML public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
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<meta name="MS-HAID" content="Departments">
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<meta name="generator" content="Adobe RoboHelp 2019">
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<title>Use a Department Pricing Formula for New Items</title>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="../ehlpdhtm.js" language="JavaScript1.2"></script>
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<p class="Help-Heading-1" style="background-color: #008000;">Use a Department Pricing Formula for New Items</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><a href="../qbpos_inventory/inven410.htm">Item Price and Cost</a> <font color="#C0C0C0" class="hcp1">|</font> <a href="deptsoverview.htm">Department Overview</a></p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Point of Sales pricing formula can be used to calculate item prices when they are first added or received into inventory.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">When a new item is added and assigned to a department with a predefined <a class="popupspot" href="JavaScript:hhctrl.TextPopup('Gross profit expressed as a percentage; one way to express the relationship between item cost and price. /r/nMargin % = [(Price Cost)/Price] X 100.','Arial,10',15,10,00000000,0xc0ffff)" style="color: #008000;">margin</a> or <a class="popupspot" href="JavaScript:hhctrl.TextPopup('Alternate way to express profit; straight markup by n% over cost.','Arial,10',15,10,00000000,0xc0ffff)" style="color: #008000;">markup</a>, Point of Sale will calculate your regular price from the average unit cost by applying the specified margin/markup. Prices for your other <a class="popupspot" href="JavaScript:hhctrl.TextPopup('Up to four optional item prices, each a markdown from your regular price. Different price levels can be used to offer special prices to customer groups (employees, VIPs, resellers), to have promotional sale prices, to offer wholesale prices, and so on.','Arial,10',15,10,00000000,0xc0ffff)" style="color: #008000;">price levels</a> are calculated based on the <a href="../qbpos_company_preferences/sysprefs05.htm">price level markdowns</a> defined in company preferences.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Note"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span>: The ability to see cost fields, including margin and markup and other fields related to cost, can be controlled by <a href="../qbpos_secadmin/secadminoverview.htm">security rights</a>. If you do not have the right to view item costs, the fields will be masked like this "*****". This right affects cost fields in inventory and on all documents and reports.</p>
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<p class="Help-Info-Line">To define a default department margin or a markup:</p>
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<ol>
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<li class="p-Help-Steps">
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<p class="Help-Steps">Display the department record.</p>
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</li>
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<li class="p-Help-Steps">
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<p class="Help-Steps">Enter a margin value in the <font class="hcp1">Margin %</font> field or a markup value in the <font class="hcp1">Markup %</font> field. Entering either results in the other being calculated and auto-filled by Point of Sale.</p>
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</ol>
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<p class="Help-Indent"><a href="dept_markupcalc.htm">My markup value sometimes changes right after I enter it. Why?</a><img src="../image/yellow_up.gif" alt="Click to display a popup topic" title="Click to display a popup topic" style="border: none;" width="10" height="12" border="0"></p>
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<ol start="3">
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<li class="p-Help-Steps">
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<p class="Help-Steps">Select <font class="hcp1">Save</font>.</p>
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</li>
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</ol>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Heading-2">Notes:</p>
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<li class="p-Help-Bulleted" style="margin-left: -20px;">
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<p class="Help-Bulleted">The department pricing formula is applied only to <font style="font-style: italic;">new</font> items (previous price = $0) added to inventory. It is not applied to the prices of existing items when item costs change.</p>
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<li class="p-Help-Bulleted" style="margin-left: -20px;">
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<p class="Help-Bulleted">If you prefer not to use Point of Sales pricing formula, do not enter a margin or markup on the department record. Manually enter item prices as you add items to inventory.</p>
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<li class="p-Help-Bulleted" style="margin-left: -20px;">
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<p class="Help-Bulleted">Margin and markup can be edited in inventory for individual items as necessary. Just <a href="../qbpos_inventory/inven410.htm">edit</a> the <font class="hcp1">Margin %</font> or <font class="hcp1">Markup %</font> fields of individual item records.</p>
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</ul>
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<p class="Related-Topics">Related Topics</p>
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<p class="Help-Main-Topic-Links"><a href="dept306.htm">Edit a department</a></p>
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</body>
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</html>
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