[RetailEdge Moderator]

Many businesses need to get setup quickly and either don't have time to enter their inventory before they are open for business, don't want to enter their current inventory into the system and will only add items as the new inventory comes in, or don't carry inventory they want to enter into the system or are automatically restocked by a vendor (small grocery stores and C Stores) and don't need to track certain portions of their inventory.

The following will allow you to sell items from the Sales Screen quickly without having to enter inventory and will allow RetailEdge to work like a cash register (Department X, $5.95, Department Y, $7.95, etc.):

1. Add all of your departments to the Department List.

2. Create a miscellaneous vendor in the Vendor List.

3. Create an inventory item that corresponds to each department. These inventory items should have a cost of $0.00, prices of $0.00 and should be Stock Type: Department SKU and use the miscellaneous vendor.

The stock numbers should be something short that can be quickly entered on the Sales Screen. RetailEdge will now track sales of items by department and the cost of goods sold will be calculated based on the average margin for the particular department associated with the item.