When I have a item that is random weight. I have the normal retail setup in the system and when scanned RMS takes the retail per pound and divides it into the retail and I get pounds sold in the quanity.
When I put the random weight item on sale.
Say the items sale price per pound is 1.99 and the items embedded price in the barcode is 4.25 when the item is scanned RMS is dividing the 4.25 by 2 and charging the customer 2.13 instead of dividing the embedded price by 2. There is no Discounts or any other pricing sceam on the items.
Hey Terry I have the same problem, and i have been trying to resolve this issue with MS and they keep telling me its by design.
lets say you have some Beef for sale at $10 per pound
if you sale 3 lbs of Beef the embedded barcode will have the Beef PLU and $30 e.g. 2010503000X
NOW that same body of meat goes on sale today, and its still good enough to sell, so you print the new lable and the lable says 3 lbs, and barcode embedded price reads $15, since its on sale at $5/lb e.g. 2010501500X
When RMS reads this barcode it rings up as Item Quantaity Price Extended price beef 1.5 5.00
7.50
This is because it takes the $15.00 from the barcode and divdes it by the retail price to come up with the quantity of 1.5, and then uses the sale price of 5 to come up with the extended price. If someone in MS can get Prcie pointer changed to sale price during the calculation i think everyting could be good. its just pointing to the regular price, instead of the sale price.
The price of the product isn't embedded, the extended price is, and the price the product is looked up by the plu of the barcode.
This is called frequent shopper pricing in the grocery stores. We figured out that RMS used this instead of true sale pricing for random weight barcodes. To bad Microsoft didn't consult someone in the Grocery industry before coding this.
Hobart can make a label type for your customer to show the sale price. Then they would still leave the etail price for the product in the Barcode.
So the label would read
Regular Price 30.00 Sale Price 15.00 You Save 15.00
then the barcode would read 2010503000X
In the Genesis Gware software you would use Discount Price instead of sale. If you deside to do this and after you get the label from your Hobart rep call the support number and they will configure the scale software to use Discount price instead of sale.
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