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Advanced Sale Item Look-up

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❑Some businesses have a very large number of Sale-Purchase Items defined - often the majority of them are Inventory items.

•When entering Sales, Proposals or Purchases, locating the correct Sale-Purchase code may mean searching through a very long list.

•To speed this process, create Sale Item Groups to identify specific sets (e.g., categories, groups, types) of Sale-Purchase Items.

•Assign a Sale Item Group to each Sale-Purchase Item, as appropriate.

 

•Sale Item Group - Optionally, you may also assign a Sale-Purchase Item to a Sale Item Group using the Drop-Down Selection List provided.

 

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Sale Item Group field

 

➢Note: Sale-Purchase Items may be easily assigned to a Sale Item Group using the Sale Item Group Assignment Form.

 

❑Advanced Sale Item Look-up

•To access the Advanced Sale Item Look-up dialog while entering a Sale, a Proposal a Bill or a Purchase.

 

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a)Click the Advanced Item Search ("Price Tag") Icon on the Ribbon Menu at the bottom of the Detail Line Items Grid to activate the Advanced Sale Item Lookup.

 

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b)Place the Mouse Pointer in the Item  field and Press Alternate and F2 at the same time (Alt+F2) to activate the Advanced Sale Item Lookup.

 

•The Advanced Sale Item Lookup dialog will be displayed.

 

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Advanced Sale Item Look-up dialog

 

✓Item Options - The Item Options box will automatically select the correct choice which limits the choices in the selection list.

 

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▪Sale & Purchase Items - the default when creating a Purchase Order.

▪Sale Items Only - the default when creating a Sales Invoice or Proposal.

▪Purchase Items Only - the default when entering a Purchase Invoice.

 

•There are three (3) selection criteria on the Advanced Sale Item Look-up that you may use individually, or together with the others, to quickly refine what will be presented in the Look Up List.

 

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Advanced Sale Item Lookup dialog

 

1.Group - use the Drop-Down Selection List to Choose a Sale Items Group.

▪The Group selection may be used by itself or combined with any of the other selection criteria to further refine your selection

▪By making this selection, only Sale-Purchase Items with this Sale Item Group code will be displayed.

▪Click on the desired Sale-Purchase Item

▪Click OK to make the selection.

 

2.Vendor - use the Drop-Down Selection List to Choose a Vendor.

▪The Vendor selection may be used by itself or combined with any of the other selection criteria to further refine your selection

▪By making this selection, only Sale-Purchase Items with this Vendor code assigned (on the Sale-Purchase Item Form) will be displayed.

▪Click on the desired Sale-Purchase Item

▪Click OK to make the selection.

 

3.Item Types - There are, in addition to <All>  four predefined Item Types:

a)Inactive - limits the list to those Sale-Purchase Items Checked as Inactive.

b)Inventory - limits the list to those Sale-Purchase Items Checked as Inventory.

c)Kits - limits the list to those Sale-Purchase Items that are Checked Kit Designation.

d)Recurring - limits the list to those Sale-Purchase Items that are Recurring Revenue Items.

▪Click on the desired Sale-Purchase Item

▪Click OK to make the selection.

 

•There are four (4) columns in the Look Up List on the Advanced Sale Item Lookup dialog:

 

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1.Sale Item - The Sale-Purchase Item code assigned to each listed Sale Item.

2.Description - The description of each listed Sale Item.

3.Price - The regular Retail Price of each listed Sale Item.

4.Ext. Price - The Adjusted Retail Price for this Sale Item after factoring in a Mark Up/Down Percentage assigned to the Subscriber or as a Price Override on the Sale-Purchase Item itself.

 

•Using the Find and Clear options:

✓Enter text to search - This field (see the mouse pointer in the illustration below) may be used to perform an incremental search simultaneously on two Columns (i.e., Sale Item and Description) to locate a specific word or phrase in the Advanced Sale Item Lookup Grid as described below:

 

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✓Find - Type the characters (numbers) which represent the Sale-Purchase Item to be located.

▪Upper and lower case entries are treated the same (the entry is compared to both).

▪The search is performed incrementally, with the Sale-Purchase Item(s) matching closest match highlighted.

 

✓Clear - To start a new search, or just to cancel the existing search, Click the Clear option.

•When located: Click on the desired Sale-Purchase Item and then Click the HelpFilesOKButtonWithCheck button.

✓The Advanced Sale Item Lookup dialog will Close.

✓The selected Sale-Purchase Item will be inserted into the Item column on the Sales Form.

 

❑Many times this feature is not needed initially, but as your business and Inventory grows, it may become necessary in the future.

•Assigning Sale Items Groups, after the Sale-Purchase Items have already been defined, is easy if you use the Assign Sale Item Groups procedure.