Outers¶
How a stock item arrives: a 25 kg bag of flour, a case of 12 sparkling water. An outer has a size, a price and, ideally, a barcode, so one scan at the dock or at a count means the whole bag.
Where: on every stock item, under How you buy it and Other outers -- in the detail sheet under Inventory → Stock → an ingredient (on the Ingredients facet), and in a product's Stock section.
How you buy it¶
The outer you usually buy in, and its price. The cost of one unit is worked out for you, with the working shown underneath:
| You type | It works out |
|---|---|
| Outer size 25, Unit kg, Outer price $42.50 | $0.0017 per g |
| Outer size 12, Unit each, Outer price $18.00 | $1.50 per each |
Outer name is suggested from the size -- 25 kg bag -- and can be changed. Outer barcode takes the code on the case, not on the single; the camera button beside it scans one.
Already know what one unit costs? Choose Per g (or Per each) instead of By outer, and type it. The outer itself is kept either way -- it moves down to Other outers, barcode and all, so the dock can still scan it. Remove it there if you really do not want it.
Other outers¶
Any other way the same item arrives. Each row:
| Field | Put |
|---|---|
| Name | 25 kg sack, case of 12, pallet |
| Holds, and its unit | How much of the item is inside: 25 and kg, or 12 and each |
| Price for the outer | What that outer costs you, if you buy it |
| Outer barcode | The code printed on it |
Add outer adds a row; the cross removes one. An outer must say how much it holds, or the item will not save: Say how much "case of 12" holds, or remove it.
What an outer's barcode does¶
| Where you scan it | What happens |
|---|---|
| A delivery | The line starts in that outer: one scan is one bag |
| A count | The same: count bags, and the grams are recorded |
| The till | Nothing. The till never sells an outer by its barcode. To sell a case at the till, use Sell this outer. |
A barcode belongs to one stock item. Saving a code another item already has is refused, and the message names the item that already has it.
Sell this outer¶
Some outers are sold as they are: a shrink-wrapped case of 12 sparkling water, with its own barcode, on the shelf beside the single bottles. Sell this outer, under a row in Other outers, makes that a product:
| The new product gets | From |
|---|---|
| Its name | The item and the outer: Sparkling water, 750ml, case of 12 |
| Its barcode | The outer's barcode |
| Its recipe | One line: the outer's worth of the item, 12 bottles |
| Its price | None. Set it yourself. |
Selling one case then takes 12 bottles off the same stock item the singles come off. One shelf, two ways to sell it.
If a product already has that outer's barcode, you get that product rather than a second one.
| Pressed from | Then |
|---|---|
| An ingredient's sheet | The new product opens, ready for a price |
| A product's Stock section | You stay on the product you are editing: ... is now a product. Set its price when you are done here. |
The button stays greyed out until the row has a name and a size.
It is on Other outers rows only, not on How you buy it. To sell the outer you buy in, describe it under Other outers as well, with the same barcode.
Options, or Sell this outer?¶
Both sell one stock item in more than one size. They suit different things.
| You want | Use | Because |
|---|---|---|
| One product in sizes, priced per size, with one barcode or none. House blend coffee beans, with a Bag option of 250g, 500g or 1kg. | Options on the product, each carrying its own option ingredients | One product, one stock item, one line in every report. The 1kg bag takes 1 kg of beans off; the 250g takes 250 g. |
| A separate thing on the shelf, with its own barcode. A shrink-wrapped case of 12 beside the singles. | Sell this outer | The till finds a product by the product's own barcode, so a case scanned at the till has to be a product of its own |
An outer with no barcode of its own almost always wants an option instead.
Press Sell this outer once. On an outer with no barcode, every press makes another new product. Find the one you made in Products.