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Cash Register Express
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Your Inventory
Choice Items
A Choice Item is a not a “real” item, but rather provides a way to have the user choose from a list of
actual items in your inventory. For example, if have a liquor store that sells a METAL CORKSCREW and
a WAITERS CORKSCREW, you can create a choice item called Corkscrew. When you sell this choice
item, you will be prompted to choose which of the two corkscrews is being sold. This simplifies your
on screen inventory – you can replace two buttons for Corkscrew on the screen with one button that
drills down into a choice of Corkscrews.
Choice items are primarily used to limit the number of items on the main invoice screen and provide
drill downs for quicker, easier selection.
In the example above, the choice item is the “fake” item called Corkscrew. The items included inside
of the choice item are the “real” items, the choices that are displayed when you “sell” the choice item.
In this example, the “real” items would be; METAL CORKSCREW and WAITERS CORKSCREW.
Some retail stores may use this for a clothing menu. The person configuring the inventory would
create all their clothes as standard inventory items, and create an “H Clothes” Choice, with all clothes
that start with the letter H inside of it. Instead of scrolling through searching for Hanes, the cashier
can select H and see a drill-down with Hanes amongst a few other clothes that begin with the letter H.
When setting up a Choice Item you can include a Prompt which is the question that is asked to the
server when provided with the individual choices. For the above example, a suitable question would
be “What Style Corkscrew?”