Q: Is there a way to apply a discount for the cost of an item? For example… If I want to sell an item from my retail store at cost, do I have to apply a manual discount for that amount or is there anywhere I can just click to make the sale price the same as my cost?
EMS: Use Price manager. In price manager you have the option to select cost and apply a discount against your cost. Use the change item price or automatic discounts. It will step you through a wizard to set the pricing.
Q: I have tried to use discounts and price changes. Both only allow a formula to calculate the new price. For example, divide the regular price by X, or subtract X%, etc. Since our prices vary by item and don’t necessarily follow the same pattern for pricing (for example, we didn’t calculate price based on cost X 2.5. Some are different. I just want to ring up a dozen items, and click a button that instantly changes all the regular prices to cost and close the sale. That’s it. Please tell me there is a simply way to do this.
EMS: Sorry, no easy way. What you can do is add the cost field to the sales receipt screen, but click on view and customize columns. Then at least, you can see the cost to manually change the selling price.
