RMS 2.0 - We've created and Assembly item that includes two separate pieces to be sold together. We want to be able to sell these items as one piece, but need to order them as separate pieces. When we sell the one piece, we need the inventory to detract from each item quantity separately.
We've set up an Assembly item to do this.
But, now we cannot figure out how to print a barcode label for the Assembly item set up. Is there a way to do this?
Nope. RMS cannot print a label for an assembly item.
I wish I had better news, but that's the facts.
Pathetic, but true.
You might make a 'suggestion to MS' about it. You won't be the first, and those that cry loudest get the most attention...
Tom
HA HA,
you just fell for the biggest joke in RMS First you discover assembly items and think "hey this would be perfect for my business because i sometimes sell groups of items as a package." Then you spend hours building your assemblies and setting things up. Then you start wondering how to print labels and signs to promote your packages, and sales reports regarding all he packages you sell.
Then the joke is on you because you figure out that assembly items are worthless... The programmers are laughing at you too, hope you get the joke. another fool fell for the old bait and switch...
Did you look at using a KIT instead of an assembly item. It may do what you need. It will order and track inventory of the individual items, but you can sell them on one ILC and prints labels for them.
Marc
While I agree not being able to print labels for assemblies is a big oversight, I disagree that assemblies are useless. I have many assemblies setup and everything is fine. I print signs for them in another program, a pain but not a deal breaker. And the reports show the items sold that make up the assembly, which is what I need since each item is purchased separately. Assemblies definitely should be handled better within RMS, but they still make my life a lot easier when selling groups of items together. Craig
"confluencekayaks" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@microsoft.com...
We use them too, but the inability to print tags is a major failure to deliver the design intent of the application. For me, Jon's cynicism is perfectly understandable.
Kits are slightly better--at least you can print a price tag--but only if you NEVER sell the items individually.
Tom
We use kits for items we sell individually and in combos. If you do not pre-build kits, the POS will build them on-the-fly as you sell them and your inventory counts will be correct for each individual items. There one drawback I have found, if you have a kit on layaway, it will only show committed on the kit item and can really screw you up when you are trying to count inventory on the individual items.
Marc
Just ger a Free 3 of 9 font and make your labels in MS Word or your label printer software.
Just remember that ILC need a start and stop character, usually a *. Check the docs for your font.
I think a Kit would be better in this case. I find if you are combining single products into one, especially if it has a different price, Kit's work best.
Richard
"S. Pike" wrote:
Assemblies are ideal for situations such as gift baskets where you want the individual items sold to record as sales to their correct department/category. Saves a lot of time at POS. Kits are more intended for a production environment.
Our workaround for tag printing is to create a new item, for example, ILC: GB1, Description: Gift Basket, Price: 59.99. Then print as many labels as you need, delete the GB1 item, then change the ILC for the assembly item to GB1.
Not perfect but at least you can still use the RMS label printing.
Ed
"S. Pike" wrote:
That is actually a pretty good workaround, but to make it better you could create GB1 as an alias for the kit item after printing labels for your assembly, and for the GB1 item you use for printing labels change GB1 to something like GB-1. That way when you need to print more labels for the assembly all you would need to do is delete the alias GB1 on the assembly and change the ILC on GB-1 back to GB1. Then after printing labels change back again. Craig
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