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Posted by Arthur

Ability to edit product description once chosen

Hi Just to say overall we are pretty pleased with Easify and it does most things we require. One thing that we would like to be added to any future updates would be the ability to

1.) Create a product on the fly whilst in the Epos window or back office order screen. This would allow us to type an item in that doesn't need to be held in the database (typically for something that we may not have many of that we don't want to go down as stock) I know Quickbooks for example have this function that they call s1 code that allows you to create a product on the fly that doesn't get saved in the products database but only on the paper work.

2.) Similar to the above but the ability to edit the description of a pre-existing stored product from the Epos screen and Orders screen. i.e. if i search for say product "1 Pair Nylon Coated Gloves Black" i could then go back to the item chosen and edit the product to say "1 Pair Nylon Coated Gloves Blue" . Again this would be useful for products we sometimes get in that may differ and instead of creating a new product we just change the description for it on selection.

3.) Also different to the first two, we were wondering if the product quantity option could also accommodate non whole numbers for example 0.5 or 2.5 This would be useful as we sell items sometimes per 1000 for example but allow customers to have smaller quantity's. Instead of creating lots of duplicate products for each different sold quantity's it would be good to be able to choose 0.5 for half as an example.

Appreciate any further development you could do with respect to this.

Many Thanks

Arthur

Posted by Richard

Re: Ability to edit product description once chosen

Arthur said:

Hi Just to say overall we are pretty pleased with Easify and it does most things we require. One thing that we would like to be added to any future updates would be the ability to

1.) Create a product on the fly whilst in the Epos window or back office order screen. This would allow us to type an item in that doesn't need to be held in the database (typically for something that we may not have many of that we don't want to go down as stock) I know Quickbooks for example have this function that they call s1 code that allows you to create a product on the fly that doesn't get saved in the products database but only on the paper work.

2.) Similar to the above but the ability to edit the description of a pre-existing stored product from the Epos screen and Orders screen. i.e. if i search for say product "1 Pair Nylon Coated Gloves Black" i could then go back to the item chosen and edit the product to say "1 Pair Nylon Coated Gloves Blue" . Again this would be useful for products we sometimes get in that may differ and instead of creating a new product we just change the description for it on selection.

3.) Also different to the first two, we were wondering if the product quantity option could also accommodate non whole numbers for example 0.5 or 2.5 This would be useful as we sell items sometimes per 1000 for example but allow customers to have smaller quantity's. Instead of creating lots of duplicate products for each different sold quantity's it would be good to be able to choose 0.5 for half as an example.

Appreciate any further development you could do with respect to this.

Many Thanks

Arthur

Hi Arthur,

Thanks for posting your suggestions.

1) This would be a useful feature and we've had a number of requests for it. I will add a vote for it from you and we hope to implement this in the future.

2) This is more tricky because changing the description of a product will change it everywhere it has been used - including on old orders. So if you changed the colour from black to blue, it would change old orders for black gloves to show they were blue gloves. In this scenario it would be best to use the product copy function in the main Products window and create a separate product for the blue gloves.

3) This is also something that we intend to implement in a future update, but it requires a lot of changes to the code so not something that we can easily do at the present time.


Regards - Richard (Easify Developer)

Posted by SueM

Re: Ability to edit product description once chosen

We have experienced problems with editing descriptions and not realising that historic orders would change. It would be better to lock descriptions and force a copy.

I have just posted a request to deal with a related problem - wanting minor variations in specification or price without creating an overwhelming number of products.

In my case though we want to be able to copy an order that contains a modified product confident that the copy will match in all details and not revert to the standard product automatically.

Posted by Alison

Re: Ability to edit product description once chosen

Hi Sue, many thanks for your suggestions. They will be passed to our developers for further consideration.

Posted by Arthur

Re: Ability to edit product description once chosen

Hi I was just wondering it has been a while and wondered how the following was going from my last post a few years ago ?

1.) Create a product on the fly whilst in the Epos window or back office order screen. This would allow us to type an item in that doesn't need to be held in the database (typically for something that we may not have many of that we don't want to go down as stock) I know Quickbooks for example have this function that they call s1 code that allows you to create a product on the fly that doesn't get saved in the products database but only on the paper work.

3.) Also different to the first two, we were wondering if the product quantity option could also accommodate non whole numbers for example 0.5 or 2.5 This would be useful as we sell items sometimes per 1000 for example but allow customers to have smaller quantity's. Instead of creating lots of duplicate products for each different sold quantity's it would be good to be able to choose 0.5 for half as an example.

Kind Regards

Arthur

Posted by Alison

Re: Ability to edit product description once chosen

Hi Arthur, thanks for your post.

There isn't currenlty a facility to have a on-the-fly product function within Easify, however we recommend entering a product such as 'Misc' (or similar) and turning off stock control for it. That way you can add it to orders as required.

You can then add comments when selling using the POS by pressing F4 to add comments as needed to the order to show what was being sold.

Fractional quantities isn't something we are looking to implement, however we are working on a Unit of Measure mod whereby you'll be able to have base units and relating untis of measure the base unit - i.e 1.5m could be sold as 150cm, 1.5Kg could be sold as 1500g,

This won't be in the first version of the Bill of Materials but will follow in a later update.

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