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Weight and volume

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41.9 Weight and volume: blends, tare, batches

  1. Online Settings → Weight and volume; on your PC Settings → Features. Pick a template: roastery, spices, sweets, fresh (butcher, fish, vegetables) or perfume.
  2. At the till type what the customer asks: “250 g”, “ربع” (a quarter kilo), “3 pcs”, or “50 جنيه” — the line then charges exactly 50 pounds. A container's tare is taken off by itself, and the note shows gross − tare. Scale labels and your own labels with a best-before date are read back exactly.
  3. Blends: parts by amount or by % of a size, a mixing fee, the bottle or the customer's own; save a customer's formula (“Ahmed's mix”) and sell it again in one tap. Each part's stock goes down by what went in.
  4. Batches (roasting, cleaning, packing a sack into bags): the input goes out, the outputs come in, the loss % and the cost carried to each output. Stock by weight report, and shrinkage or evaporation write-offs.

Plans: Shop and up online, Silver on your PC. The scales and label printers are driven as before; this round was not tried on a real scale. More: Selling by weight: blends, tare and batches · Scale barcode labels

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Online · Weight and volume

For shops that sell by the gram, the kilo or the millilitre: roasteries, spice and sweets shops, butchers, greengrocers, perfume and oud shops. Every till reads these settings, also without internet.

Fills in the containers with typical tares and the units your trade uses. You can change everything afterwards.

Weighing with a container's tare, selling 20's worth, pieces of an item sold by the kilo, blends with saved formulas, your scale's labels and your own pre-packed labels.

The weight of an empty container in grams comes off the reading when the cashier picks it. Link a container to a product to charge for it (a bottle); leave it free otherwise.

A unit your trade uses with its size in grams (a weight) or millilitres (a volume): a 12 ml tola for oils, a local ratl.

Tick the layouts your label-printing scales use and set their prefix (I = item code, K = price check digit, V = value, C = check digit). The item code is the product's short barcode (its PLU). The marked one is used for the labels you print yourself.

Off: the receipt names the blend only (or "Custom blend #1") — a perfumer's formula stays the house's.

A product with the fee's price; a blend adds one of it (the cashier may leave it off).

How to use this feature

Shop template · Apply the template · Sell by weight and volume (blends, tare, scale labels) · Containers and their tare · Code · Name · Kind · Tare (g) · Holds · Charged as · Unit · Free (no charge) · Your own units · Measures

Online · Roast, grind and pack

What goes in comes out of stock, what comes out goes in; the weight lost is recorded and the batch's cost is carried to what came out.

Roasting: 10 kg green in, 8.4 kg roasted out. Packing: 8.25 kg of the sack in, 33 bags of 250 g out (give the bag its piece weight under Settings) — what is left stays in the sack.

Meat trimmed, spices dried, oils evaporated: take it off the stock with its reason (the waste report lists it).

How to use this feature

Stock by weight · Batch cost · Weight lost · Goes in · Item · Quantity in its unit · The batch's own cost (gas, labour, bags) · Note · Comes out · Item made · Quantity made · Work it out · Record the batch · Shrinkage and evaporation

Online · Blends and formulas

The house blends and the formulas saved for customers at the till. A formula sells again in one tap at any size; each part's stock goes down by what goes in.

A house blend shows on every customer's list at the till.

How to use this feature

Weight and volume · No formula saved yet. · Name · For · Recipe · Size · Price · House blend · Remove from the till · A new house blend · Parts given as · Amounts · Percentages of a size · Size (for percentages)

Online · Weighed labels

For packing behind the counter: each label carries the item, the net, the unit price, the total, the packing day, the best-before and the same barcode a scale prints — the till charges it like a scale's label.

How to use this feature

Weight and volume · Name · Net in each bag · "250 g", "0.5 kg", "1 tola"… · Count · Packed on · Make the labels · Print

Desktop · Weight and volume

How to use this feature

Weight, amount or pieces · Container · Tare (g) · Add to the sale · Read the scale · Cancel · The scale's reading (the container's tare comes off).

Desktop · Blend for this sale

How to use this feature

House · Size · Sell this formula · Parts as percentages of the size · Part · Amount or % · Unit · Container · Customer's own bottle · Mixing fee · Save as a house blend · Add to the sale · Work it out · Cancel

Desktop · Weight & volume

How to use this feature

Blend for this sale · Roast, grind and pack · Shrinkage and evaporation · Weighed labels · Stock by weight and refill prices · Weight and volume settings · Only the manager can change these settings. · Close · No item sold by weight or volume is in stock yet. · Name · Qty · Reason · Note · Take it off the stock

Desktop · Roast, grind and pack

Roasting: 10 kg green in, 8.4 kg roasted out. Packing: the sack's kilos in, the bags out (give the bag its piece weight in the settings).

How to use this feature

pc · Goes in · Qty · The batch's own cost · Comes out · Work it out · Record the batch

Desktop · Weighed labels

How to use this feature

Name · Net in each bag · How many · Packed on · Print the labels

Desktop · Weight and volume settings

How to use this feature

Shop template · Apply the template · Print a blend's recipe on the receipt · No mixing fee · Free (no charge) · Mixing fee · As set under the scale (prefix and format) · Scale-label layout · Prefix · Code · Name · Tare (g) · Charged as · Piece (g/ml)

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