Question 1

Item Library

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| Navigation: Items → Items Library

Item Creation

Item creation involves the following steps:

Create Item
Create Variation
Add Inventory

Create Item - Press Create Item button. The Create Item pop-up opens, fill in the details and save.

Create Variation - Press Add Variation button.

The variation screens opens, fill the details and save.

Name: Coca Cola 250ML (Unique name for the variation).
Food Type: Veg or Non Veg or Egg. Select from the dropdown. Type: To indicate the type of item. Select from the dropdown:

Sale - To indicate the item is of type sale.
Combo - To indicate the item is a combo. Refer Combo for more information.
Ingredient - To indicate the item is an ingredient (Will not be displayed in POS). Refer Ingredient for more information.
Modifier - To indicate the item is an add-on or extra (Will be displayed under Items). Refer [Modifier](https://help.posbytz.com/en/article/modifier-1k439iw

Question 2

Discounts

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Discounts

Navigation: Backend → Items → Discounts

1. Order Level Discount:

Fixed Discount (E.g: Buy for $1000 and Get $100 Off)
Percentage Discount (E.g: Buy for $1000 and Get 10% Off)
Order to Item-level Discount (E.g: Buy for $500 and Get Hershey's Chocolate Free)

2. Item Level Discount:

Fixed Discount (E.g: Buy 2 Coke Cola and Get $5 Off)
Percentage Discount (E.g: Buy 5 Cheetos Crunchy and Get 5% Off) & (Eg: Buy 1 Burger and Get 20% Off On second burger)
Item to item level Discount (E.g: Buy 1 and Get 1 free)

3. Category level Discount

Fixed Discount (E.g: Buy Any 1 item in Fruits Category and Get $1 Off)
Percentage Discount (E.g: Buy Any 1 item in Male Grooming Category and Get 5% Off)
Category to Item-level Discount (E.g: Buy Any one item in Chocolates Category and Get 1 Hershey's Free)

Click on “Create Discount”.

The Create Discount pop-up opens, fill in the necessary fields, and save.

Name: Name of the discount (Mandatory field).
Code: Self created coupon code which can be used to avail the discount at online store.
Locations: Select the location(s) at which the discount has to be active (Mandatory field).
Valid from: Select the Start date of the discount.
Expires on: Select the End date of the discount.
Days: Select the days(Mon-Sun)

Question 3

Import Item Ingredient Update

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Import Item Ingredient Update

Update ingredients for an item variation. For example, the item is Chicken Noodles and the ingredients used to prepare are chicken(50g), noodles(200g), sauce(20ml), onion(50g), cabbage(100g), masala(10g). Chicken noodles served with a disposable plate(1 Nos) and spoon(1 Nos). You can also add a plate and spoon under ingredients.

Item Variation SKU: SKU of the item variation (Chicken Noodles).
Location : Ingredients location of the item variation, if the ingredients update has to be done at multiple locations, separate the locations with comma. For example Location1,Location2,Location3
Item Ingredient SKU: SKU of the ingredients (chicken, noodles, onion, tomato, cabbage, masala, plate and spoon).
Quantity: Quantity of ingredients required.
Unit Of Measurement: Unit of measurement of the ingredients.

count - Ingredients consumed in count/numbers.
volume_teaspoon - Liquid ingredients consumed in Teaspoon.
**volume_tablespoon **- Liquid ingredients consumed in Tablespoon.
cup - Liquid ingredients consumed in Cup
**ml **- Liquid ingredients consumed in Millilitres.
l - Liquid ingredients consumed in Litres..
weight_teaspoon - Solid ingredients consumed in Teaspoon.
weight_tablespoon - Solid ingredients consumed in Tablespoon.
kg - Solid ingredients consumed in Kilograms.
g- Solid Ingredients consumed in Grams.
mg- Solid Ingredients consumed in Mi

Question 4

Import Price Category

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Import Price Category

An Item can be sold with multiple price tags. For example, Noodles default price is 10$. The same item can be sold at multiple prices.

15$ in A/C price category
17$ in Home Delivery

For this sheet to be uploaded the "Price Category" has to be created and item variation "Pricing Type" should be "Multi". Refer Price Category Setup doc

Price Category Name: Unique name for price category. For example online, parcel, etc.
SKU: SKU of the item variation.
Locations: Inventory location of the item variation, if the price category has to be added for multiple locations, separate the locations with a comma. For example Location1,Location2
Price Type: fixed or percentage.

fixed: Fixed amount will be increased or decreased from the selling price.
percentage: Percentage of amount will be increased or decreased from the selling price.

Price Value: Values can be positive or negative. For example 5, -5, etc. The given value will be added / subtracted from the selling price.
Tax: Tax component of the item variation for the price category. If the item has multiple tax components, separate tax components with comma. For example tax1,tax2,tax3

||| Note: Columns names marked with RED colour in Download Sample XL sheet are mandatory fields.

Question 5

Import Item

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An item has to be always associated with a category and tax components. For example, if we want to import the following items

Lay’s BBQ

Lays BBQ 100g
Lays BBQ 200g

Chicken Legs

Chicken Legs 2pcs
Chicken Legs 4pcs

Oranges

Lays BBQ and Chicken Legs has 2 variations each.

Items display in POS

On clicking Lays BBQ, the following popup with the 2 item variations will open.

If Lays BBQ 100g, Lays BBQ 220g, Chicken Legs 2pcs and Chicken Legs 4pcs are to be displayed as 4 items in POS, create them as 4 separate items.

Item Name: Unique name for the item.

Lay’s BBQ
Chicken Legs
Oranges

Category Name: Category name to which the item belongs.

Chips for Lay’s BBQ
Meat for Chicken Legs
Fruits for Oranges

Item Description: Description of the item.

Lay's BBQ Flavored Potato Chips for Lay’s BBQ
Chicken Legs Finest Quality for Chicken Legs
Australian Oranges for Oranges

Variation Name: Variation name of the item.

Lay's BBQ 100g for Lay’s BBQ
Chicken Legs Finest Quality for Chicken Legs
Australian Oranges for Oranges

Alternate Language: Variation name can be given in required languages and can be printed on the bill. Example Arabic, Tamil, Hindi, etc.
Variation Type:

Question 6

Import Item Price Update

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Import Item Price Update

Update the price of Item variation.

SKU: SKU of the item variation for which the price to be updated.

Locations : Inventory location of the item variation, if the price update has to be done for multiple locations, separate the locations with a comma. For example Location1,Location2,Location3
Price: Update selling price of the item variation.
MRP: Update MRP of the item variation.
Buying Price: Update buying price of the item variation.
Pricing Type: Update pricing type of the item variation. For example fixed or variable or multi.

||| Note: Columns names marked with RED colour in Download Sample XL sheet are mandatory fields.

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