Bottle Deposit

[Dino Hotel]

another newb question, is there a way to link bottle deposits to your items, like if you ring a a bottle of coke a deposit is automaticly added? thanks in advance

[Andrew]

No, add a seperate stock item for the deposit and it will be the responsibility of the cashier to do this properly.

We have no such bottle deposit scheme in New Zealand, all bottles are recyclable plastic No glass (for coke and assorted soft drinks anyway).

In Dale's software - if you don't see an option on the screen in POSCONFG especially, or check the manual, yes there is one (REGISTER.TXT in your POS folder), it ain't there.

[ChrisKraus]

Actually, Not so long ago, Dale mentioned 2 features on this forum that were not in the manual.

- Chris

[Andrew]

Chris,

I do remember - I have been around here a while now, the two features Dale mentioned were not operation-critical features. They were easter eggs so to speak.

For example, if Dale added the Stocktable editor, but published no way to get to it - that would be a slip-up.

[ChrisKraus]

Thats True

[tmdavenport]

I searched and found this thread. In Canada now, we have separate deposit and environmental charges on drinks. Different deposits and different environmental charges depending on glass or plastic, and volume of drink. One has tax and the other doesn't.

If there were some way to have a column in the stock table that was "Linked item(s) separated by commas" where we could enter items to be automatically "rung in" when you purchased that item.

A separate item in the stock table could be created for each type of environmental charge, and each type of deposit with their appropriate tax.

Then when you purchased a can of pop, it would automatically enter the items in the Linked column.

What do you think?

Trent

[ZeeMan]

I'm not sure but you could write a bit of add-on software based off of the code Dale provides at http://dhpos.com/fformat.htm#pole.
You could have an external application that figures the deposit and displays it elsewhere on the screen.
I hope I understood your question and provided a helpful answer.

[tmdavenport]

I don't only want it on the screen, Here's an example:
You scan a can of cola.
The can of cola is a 355ml can
Because it's a can < 500ml it requires the addition of 10 cents deposit, and 5 cents environmental fee.

What I'm hoping the POS program can someday to is, in the cola stock item, you could include the 2 additional stock items that are "linked", so when you scanned the cola, it would automatically add the deposit and enviro.

TILL WOULD READ
1 Cola $ 0.93 (Scanned item) + G.S.T Tax
1 Deposit CAN < 500ML $ 0.10 (automatically entered)
1 Enviro CAN < 500ML $ 0.05 (automatically entered) + G.S.T.

So the till would know that every time you scanned a can of cola, it would need to add the other 2 items that were linked to the cola.

I hope that makes it a bit clearer.

[Reed]

We use this feature at the grocery store I work at (using a Retailx Storeline system). Pretty handy. We use it to add excise tax to tobacco, bottle deposits on milk, or for reductions in buy x for y sales.

There is a way around this, though....just include any tax/fee into the price of the item itself, and post a sign that says cost includes tax/fees.

[tmdavenport]

Problem in this case is,

Cola has GST
Deposit doesn't have GST
Enviromental Charge has GST

If we include the deposit and enviro, we over-charge the TAX.