Linking items in stock table

[Tomi Päivinen]

I was wondering whether there is any way of linking items in DHPos, so that when a item is rang on the register another item would be rung too?

In Finland we have a bottle deposit system: when you buy soda or bottled water, a deposit is added to the price and when you return the empty bottle back to the store you get your deposit back. The problem is that the deposit of the bottle and the actual content of the bottle aren't taxed with same rate. That's why the price of the soda and the deposit of the bottle can't include in the same price. (For instance, if a 0,4 US gallon bottle of coca-cola costs 3,66$, then a deposit of 0.62$ (0,40€) is added to the price making the whole price 4,28$. When the bottle is scanned to the register, VAT for the content in 17%, but for the bottle it's 22% and the register rings these to as different items.)

Of course it could be done so that whenever a customer buys a bottle of soda the salesperson enters PLU to add the bottle, but it's an uncertain method, because in a rush the salesperson might forget to add the deposit to the price, thus causing the store to lose money.

[daleadmin]

Tomi,

Different things in the stock table cannot be linked.

Sorry,
Dale

[IAN]

sorry to sound blunt, but if your worried about that your cashiers can make mistakes everywhere that could 'really' make you loose money!

with the right training you shouldn't have any problem it may be easier to give a 20 out instead of a 10 than to loose a small amount of money on bottle tax...

dont forget you dont need to type a P L U code the first items on the stock table associate with he letters on the keyboard so you could type the letter "B" to sell a bottle or for an even easy way make your own barcode linked to the "bottle tax"

and can you not do 'swapsies' so if they bring back a bottle you dont charge them on their total for the bottle they buying?

[EST]

Couldn't you just make your own TAX list and link it to the bottle. You said the VAT is 17% and 22%, then link TAX 17% or 22% to all bottles, cans, and glass containers (or what ever they accept their) too them.