Products (PLUs)
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Products (PLUs)
Products include all weighed and non-weighed items that are for sale in the store. Products are
grouped by department. Each product has its own PLU (Product Look Up).
Prerequisites
Many of the product settings are configured in other areas of the scale configuration, so you
may prefer to setup the following before creating or editing a product, especially if you create
one product as a template, which is then copied numerous times:
•
Department
•
Groups
•
Tares
•
Promo Time Periods
•
Tax Rates
•
Messages
•
Trace Scheme
Creating and Editing Products
1.
Press
>
>
>
2.
From the top of the screen, select the Department.
3.
Type a new (unused) PLU number and press
. The PLU editor opens.
4.
Edit the
Description
. Whichever field you edit, pressing
automatically opens the next
field for editing. When all of the fields are complete, press Save. If the ID number is already
used or set to 0, the next available valid number is assigned.
Note:
Many of the product fields shown here are not available by default. You can add,
customise, rename or change the order of the fields that are available to you (See
<italic>Customise Editor).
Department
Selected earlier.
PLU Number
Not editable (up to 14 characters)
Description
The main title of the product, which is used in all manager mode descriptions.
By default, this is used on the product button. However, for static keyboards you can change
the text in the key editor, and once changed in the key editor you must always use the key
editor to change the button text.
Text 1
Displayed when the operator selects
Show Info
.
Text 2
Typically, this is for ingredients.