where to start

I beleive people have already answered your question, take a look at your help files or do searches on this newsgroup for random weight upcs. Or the easiest solution, talk with the person that sold you the software, your RMS Partner.

Rob

"zoostati> My brother and I are opening a small seafood market. Since most of are items

There is a real good knowlegebase article in customersource. Buy the support plan. You will be glad you did. Also, I work for a seafood/meat market, so if you need any help or you might could help me let me know.

"zoostati> My brother and I are opening a small seafood market. Since most of are items

In RMS in the configuration check off "using variable UPC codes with prices" Set up your scale to include price in the bar code set up your RMS Item Lookup UPC code following the template:

200XXXYYYYY where XXX it is an item lookupcode from the scale (PLU). In scale enter an PLU code - in most cases scales have two (couple) fileds with codes (e.g PLU code nad iCODE code) make sure that you enter same XXX lookup code in both. Set up a scaleso it prints a barcode with a price in YYYYY position. and every thing should work. Good luck.

"zoostati> That sounds good Derek. How can I get my hands >

Robert... The scale is set to print out a 12 digit barcode with the following fields:

2 XXXXX (5 digit PLU) x (check digit?) YYYY (total price) x (end digit?)

This sounds similar to what you are requesting for scale output.

Where is the check off for variable UPC codes in RMS?

Thank you!

"Robert Szpiczynski" wrote:

In RMS Manager go to File-> Configuration (I think first position) -> One of the tabs with bunch of folders" -> choose POS (i think ... i am not at the RMS at this point) -> go through it and you will find variable UPC and variable EAN -> choose UPC for variable price or EAN for variable weight.

I h> Robert... The scale is set to print out a 12 digit barcode with the

of are items

RMS to read

Well, you got to purchase it (support plan) from whoever you bought the software from, and they set you up with M$. The cost is a certain percentage of your RMS purchase price, but I can't remember what it was, 15% maybe?

My Hobart scale uses UPC random weight barcodes.

Steps:

1.) Take the scale label and look at the UPC (example: 201483 002592). 2.) Create a new item, and enter the first six digits followed by 5 zeros for the item lookup code (example: 20148300000). 3.) Enter all your other info and save the item. 4.) Open the RMS POS program and scan the item. It should come up with the price of $2.59.

Suggestions:

1.) I would make all your scale label items non-inventory type, unless you want a bunch of negatives for quantities. (ypu can change this in the item properties, but not when you use the new item wizard for some reason) 2.) I wouldn't put the price in the price field because RMS does a reverse calculation to give the unit and weight, but it usually doesn't add up to whats on the label for weight. (Rounding issue? maybe I don't know what I'm doing.) 3.) Maybe someone else on here has some ideas?

Hope that gets you going.

"zoostati> That sounds good Derek. How can I get my hands >

Robert...will this format work with a 4 digit PLU?

Our scales are punnting out the followinf format:

20XXXX 6 YYYY 7

Where x = PLU and Y=price

"Robert Szpiczynski" wrote:

As far as RMS is concerned, that is still a 5 digit PLU with a leading 0. Should be fine...

The barcode generated from my stadalone scale looks like this:

0 209915 70349 the PLU is 09915 and the price is 3.49

1) Is that the correct format.

2) Do I have to tell my scanner ewhat format that is? 3) Do I have to define that format in my item properties?

Thank you

"Derek" wrote:

That looks more like EAN than UPC. RMS can handle either - there are separate options for each though, just turn on both of them.