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Cash Register Express
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Your Inventory
Inventory Maintenance – Adding and Modifying Items
Cash Register Express allows you to create inventory
items, create linked inventory, create sale pricing,
track inventory and configure retail and other
inventory items. Creation and modification of these
inventory items, as well as coupons, is done through
the Inventory Maintenance screen which can be
accessed from the Administrative section of the
Options Screen. A full tutorial of this screen is in the
built-in F1 help section; below are some basic pointers
to get you started.
You can add standard items from the Inventory Maintenance screen. Adding them through the
Inventory Maintenance screen gives you more options and flexibility. Select on the Add button to add
a new item. You’ll have a choice of four different types of items:
 Standard Item encompasses all inventory and SKU based retail items.
 A Choice Item is not a real item, but rather it is a fake item that when “sold,” gives you a
choice of which item to sell. For example, you can create a Corkscrew choice item whose
choices would be Waiter Corkscrew, Metal Corkscrew and Fancy Corkscrew. The advantage is
one inventory button that drills down into choices, as opposed to an overwhelming number
of on screen inventory buttons.
 The Modifier Group is used to group modifiers together. For example, if you have modifier
items Small Vase, Large Vase and Bouquet Wrap, for your flower bouquet you can group
them into one modifier group called Flower Presentation. Using modifier groups simplifies
creation of menu items; instead of adding four modifiers to many flower bouquets, you can
add the group once to each item. Note: This feature is mostly used for restaurants.
 Coupon items are created to give the customer a discount. They can be configured to give a
flat amount or percentage off an entire check or only specific items. Coupons automatically
calculate the discount amount based on price paid, date and time and other options. (For
more information see the Coupon section.)
 Kit Items are created in order to group items together to sell them at a discounted rate.
Fill in the data for the item and select Save. The most important fields for a standard item are the
item number (must be unique), description, cost, price and tax rates. Modifying an item is just as
easy. Select the Lookup button on the bottom left, find the item in the list and select it, modify
the item and select Save Changes to update the item.