Labels and shelf tickets¶
Shelf tickets for the strip along the front of a shelf, and stickers for goods that arrived with no barcode. Printed on plain A4, on sticker sheets, on the receipt printer, or on a label printer.
Where: any of these opens the labels screen:
| From | Do this | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Sales → Products | Tap Select at the top, tap each product you want, then Labels in the bar at the bottom. See Doing several at once. | One for each |
| A product | The ⋮ menu at the top → Print labels | Its own |
| Inventory → Receive, a saved delivery | The ⋮ menu at the top → Print labels | One for each line you sell as it comes |
A product in sizes and colours gets one per size, each with its size, its own price and its own barcode. Marlow & Vine's canvas shopping tote prints Small and Large.
From a product, the label is of the product as saved. Change a price, press Save, then print.
What to print¶
| Choice | Looks like | For |
|---|---|---|
| Shelf ticket | The name across the top, the price large, the barcode beside it | The shelf strip |
| Sticker | The name, the price, the barcode underneath | Stuck on the item: house-bagged nuts, a local maker's jars of quince paste |
| Barcode only | The barcode, with the name small above it | Something already priced, or a box in the back |
The name gets smaller before it is cut short. A product with no barcode prints without bars; see Make a barcode.
Where to print¶
Print on lists every place this device can print. On the web version it is paper only.
| Print on | What happens |
|---|---|
| A4 page | A page with grey cut lines, for shelf tickets. Set Length and Height to your shelf strip; they start at 70 by 25 mm and are kept on this device. Share or print opens the device's printer list. |
| Avery L7651 (65 to a sheet) | Small stickers, 38 by 21 mm, on a sheet of A4 labels |
| Avery L7160 (21 to a sheet) | Bigger stickers, 63 by 38 mm |
| A receipt printer | One at a time, each cut off. Up to 72 mm long on an 80 mm roll. Trim any spare paper. |
| A label printer | At the size set for it under Sales → Setup → Printers. Chosen first when you have one. |
How many of each prints that many of every item: 50 stickers for a batch of 50 jars.
Always print at 100%, not "Fit to page". Fit to page shrinks the sheet, and nothing lines up.
Sticker sheets¶
Start at label skips the stickers already used on a part-used sheet. Labels count across, then down: on an L7160 sheet, label 4 is the first on the second row.
Print a test sheet first, on plain paper. It shows every label's outline and number. Hold it against a sheet of stickers up to the light. If the boxes sit off the stickers, use Move right and Move down (in mm; a minus moves it left or up) and test again. Both are kept on this device, because every printer feeds a little differently.
A label printer¶
Add it under Sales → Setup → Printers, with Printer page style set to Label:
| Field | Put |
|---|---|
| Network address | Its address on your network, as for a receipt printer |
| Label width, Label height | The size of the labels loaded in it, in mm |
Test prints a label with the printer's name, the size it has been told, and a barcode. If it comes out the wrong size, check the two numbers. A label printer never prints anything from a sale.
It must be a 203 dpi printer that understands ZPL and is on the network, not USB or Bluetooth. Ask us before you buy one.
Make a barcode¶
For something that came without one. In the product editor, under the Barcode field, Make a barcode fills it in. It is offered only while the field is empty, so a real barcode is never replaced.
For a product in sizes, Make barcodes for the sizes without one under the sizes gives each size its own. A size that has a barcode keeps it.
Press Save, then print its labels. The till scans a made barcode like any other.
Made barcodes start with 20. Codes starting with 2 are kept worldwide for use inside a shop, so a made code can never be the same as a barcode printed on a real product. Each one is checked against every product and size before it is used.
Good to know¶
- The preview is the label. It is drawn by the same code that prints it.
- Receipt paper fades in sun and heat. For tickets that stay up a long time, A4 or a label printer is the better choice.
- Scan one before printing a big run. If the barcode does not read on your scanner, tell us before you print 200.
- If a printer cannot be reached, the screen says so, with Retry.