Enter the same item description for similar items

Apr 08, 2007 5 Replies

While entering items into POS 2.0 I found that I cannot enter the same item description for similar items.



For example: if I have to enter 10 shirts with different size, color, material, manufacturer, cost and selling price, understandably I will have to create new item for each one of them with unique item # and barcode #, however, I find it difficult for my customer to come up with unique description for each one of them, especially when description has to be Shirt for all of them.



Only other options left would be to add number to the description such as shirt1, shirt2, shirt3 etc. or add attributes with the description such as Shirt-S/M/L/XL-White-Cotton etc. What if the customer sells only shirts, can you imagine what a hassel it would be for a customer to come up with unique description for 100s or 1000s of items?



Even if customer can manage to do that, it leads to another problem. The description entered will be printed on receipts and tags in the format customer may not like. Also keep in mind the limitation of 30 caracters for description in 40 column receipt printing.



Too much trouble for customer.....



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Nick,

We made this change in POS 2.0 to support the integration to Office Accounting. I'm sorry that this restriction is causing you trouble. We felt the trade off for the detailed synchronization was worth the change. Your suggestion will be reviewed for upcoming releases of POS.

Jeff

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What a horrible and ill-concieved decision.

As an RMS user, I assure you that a requirement for unique item descriptions would be an *instant* deal breaker for me. I would be shopping for new software immediately.

Tom

Jeff why have the Unique description as an anchor for integratiuon when the Item Lookup Code is already there as a Unique Anchor??

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Afshin,

While Office Accounting does have a UPC/SKU field, it is not required and does not have to be unique. Their unique identifier is Item Name.

Jeff

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Hi Jeff,

You must admit that name is not logical. Even in normal life you may have many people that are called Jeff Blucher whilst only one has your social security number [and your smart of course.... lol ].

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