Buy by case selling by unit

Dear Marc,

If this is Store only you have several options:

- Use Parent Child for Flats and Cubes - For the Rolls have a look at the Store and HQ Utility we have that hansdles rolls and how much is on each roll (Units of Measure).

Dearest Afshin,

Thank you once again for your never ending help!

The parent child thing worked great... 3 generations in RMS... all getting along :-)

They currently are only running 1 location with RMS...

I think this will work also for the rolls and other items sold in length... but I will also look at your add in.

Once again Afshin thank you for your help... the timing was perfect!

Marc Wagner LaunchPOS

"Afsh> Dear Marc,

Hi Marc, I have a similar scenario. What is this parent child thing? I am working around my buying as case (kit) and breaking upon receiving and selling as item. It's not perfect. If you or Afshin could comment, that'd be great.

Fahad

"Marc Wagner" wrote:

Hello Fahad,

To my great delight... I created 3 items... A - for the case... B - for the flat (30 in case) and C - for the cube (98 in a flat)

Each item is a standard item... with its own price and cost and so on... A and B are set to not be placed on Purchase Order (since only the case can be purchased from distributor)

Then I made C the child of B with a quantity of 98... and B the child of A with a quantity of 30...

To start there was a quantity of 2 for item A (the case) and I scratched my head for a while trying to figure out how this worked... and then I looked in the user guide and it explained that if I sell... for example item C and there is not enough on hand... it will "open up" the parent... which it did!

I am so happy... and so is the client... so selling 1 of C resulted in A going from 2 to 1 and therefore opening into 30 B... and in the same step reduced B to 29 and made C 97 (after selling the 1 cube)

I hope this explained a bit more Fahad... it seems like it will work great.

Marc Wagner

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OK, what about my situation.

We sell fuel bottles for backpacking stoves. Ordered and sold by EACH We also provide a FREE bottle whenever a person purchases a stove.

So, I made the item that we buy by the each "11oz BOTTLE" with the cost and price. We keep inventory stock on this item.

Then, I made a second item number called "TAGALONG Bottle". I made THAT item the tagalong to the different stoves that get a free bottle and made the "11oz bottle" that we buy the PARENT of the "tagalong bottle" and made it have a price of "$0" with DO NOT PLACE ON PURCHASE ORDER checked.

So now, when someone buys a stove, the "tagalong bottle" pops into POS screen with a ZERO cost and we close the invoice.

However, the PARENT item, the "11oz fuel bottle" does NOT get depleted of inventory. Why? It is the PARENT of the TAGALONG BOTTLE with a child quantity of "1".

Am I missing a step here? Or should I do this some other way?

Thanks in advance!

Mickie

Marc Wagner wrote:

Did you set the child quantity of the TAGALONG Bottle? if not, try putting a one in that field and seeing if it works.

Yes, I have the parent item's ILC and then Child Quantity=1