Supermarkets and large stores

Bill fast with thousands of products - extra and pack barcodes, weighing-scale labels, MRP and "You saved" on receipts, held bills and keyboard shortcuts.

Choose your store type

Go to Settings › Billing Settings › Store type & scanning and pick What do you sell?

• General store - the billing screen as it has always been.
• Supermarket / grocery - keeps your products on each counter, so a large catalogue opens fast, and switches on Hold and Held bills and keyboard shortcuts. You can still turn each one on or off.

Click Save. Pharmacy / medical store is coming soon.

Large catalogues

When you have more than 1,500 products, or the store type is Supermarket, each counter keeps your products in the browser.

• The first time a counter opens the billing screen it loads every product once. After that it fetches only what changed - new products, price and stock changes, deleted products.
• An open billing screen picks up changes every minute, so a new price reaches every counter without anyone reloading.
• The product grid shows the first 200 products of a category, and more as you scroll. Type in Search Item or scan to find any product straight away.

More barcodes and pack barcodes

A product can have several barcodes. Open the product (Menu › Products, then Edit) and use More barcodes:

1. Click Add a barcode and scan or type it.
2. In Units, enter how many units one scan adds: 1 for another barcode of the same pack, or for example 12 for the barcode on a case of 12.
3. Optional: give it a name, such as Case of 12.
4. For a product with variations, choose which variation the barcode is for.
5. Click Save.

Scanning the case barcode adds 12 units of the product to the bill, priced per unit. Stock goes down by 12 units. A barcode can belong to only one product.

Weighing-scale labels

Fruit, vegetables, meat or sweets weighed on a label-printing scale can be scanned like any product. The label's barcode carries the product code and the weight, or the price to pay.

1. Go to Settings › Billing Settings › Store type & scanning and tick Read weighing-scale labels.

2. Set the format to match your scale's label:

   • Labels start with - the first digits your scale prints, for example 21.
   • The product code in the label is - the product's number in Ellibo, or its short code.
   • Where the code and the weight (or price) start, and how long they are.
   • The label carries the weight or the price, and how many decimals it has. With 3 decimals, 01250 means 1.250 kg.
3. Scan a real label into Try a label to check it reads correctly, then click Save.

On the billing screen, scanning a label adds the product with that weight, for example Apples: 1.25 kg added. If the label carries the price, the weight is worked out from the product's price per kg. Set up weighed products with their price per kg and the unit kg.

Weighing-scale labels are part of the Standard plan and above.

MRP and "You saved"

On the product form, fill in MRP, for a product or for each variation.

The MRP is the maximum retail price printed on the pack.

When you sell below it:

• the billing screen shows the MRP crossed out under the item, and You save under the total;
• the receipt and the e-Bill show the MRP under the item and You saved under the total, including any bill discount.

The MRP is kept on each bill line, so changing it later doesn't change past receipts.

Hold and Held bills

Use Hold when a customer steps away, for example to fetch one more item:

1. Press Hold (or F7). The bill is saved and the screen is ready for the next customer.
2. To carry on, press Held bills <i class="far fa-pause-circle"></i> at the top of the cart (or F8) and press Pick up.

The red number on Held bills shows how many of today's bills are saved but not paid yet.

Keyboard shortcuts

Switch them on under Settings › Billing Settings › Features › Keyboard shortcuts on the billing screen.

Related

• Manager PIN at the till
• Add products
• Bill at the counter
• Billing settings