1 Bookstore Manager Trainings Presented by Robbie Halstead Kingdom Retail Solutions

2 Miscellaneous Utilities

3 AMM – Alternate Menu’s

4 Miscellaneous Utilities Steps to Using the Alternate Menu In ENV, add the line “USE-ALT-MENU Y”’ Exit Bookstore Manager and go back in At Enter Program name, type AMM Configure the Menu See next slide…

5 Miscellaneous Utilities There are 3 main column titles that you can customize. You will need to check the box “Show” next to each entry you want to show Under the “Program” column, type the name of the program Under the “Description” column, type the description of the program. Click

6 Miscellaneous Utilities You may wish to configure multiple menus. Example: You want a POS menu and a Receiving menu. You can customize multiple menu’s. You can use any number between 0-9, or A-Z (Y and N cannot be used). While in AMM, click and type a # or character to customize a different menu. Example: “R” might mean Receiving. Click OK

7 Miscellaneous Utilities Customize the “R” menu, then click Or, you can customize more menus…

8 Miscellaneous Utilities To tell each station what menu to use, on each station, you will need to go into SYS  Environment  User’s Station Environment. Press OK at the User # prompt. Go to the Misc. tab and in “USE-ALT-MENU”, type the menu # or character, then click.

9 Miscellaneous Utilities POS Item Menu

10 Miscellaneous Utilities This allows you to ring up common items by simply clicking the item from the menu that comes up.

11 Miscellaneous Utilities In ENV, add the line “ITEM-MENU-VISIBLE 1” Exit Bookstore Manager and go back in At Enter Program name, type IVNM. Add the items you would like on your Item Menu. See next slide on how to set the items up in IVNM…

12 Miscellaneous Utilities For Description, type: Z-Item Name (This can be up to 12 characters long. Now go to the Price & Department field and type the price then a “/” and the department # or Item # in IVM. –Example: 299/5 would be $2.99 and would ring up to Dept #5. When finished adding your items, Exit IVNM and go into POS. You would now see your items when you click “Item Menu” Click the name of the item to ring the item up.

13 Miscellaneous Utilities In the 1 st section, you tell BSM what parameters to use for changing your inventory. In the 2 nd section, you tell BSM what field to change in IVM. In the 3 rd section, you tell BSM what to change the setting to IVGL Program Global Inventory Changes This is very powerful program that makes global changes to your inventory. There are 3 sections.

14 Miscellaneous Utilities IVUL #23 – Change Ven 1,2,3 from xxx to xxx You can use this utility to change items in your inventory from one vendor to another. You change vendor 1, 2, or 3. One example would be changing Riverside to STL Distibution because you can’t order from Riverside.

15 Miscellaneous Utilities Sys Config 4006 – SLTP to filename #4006 “Monthly” setting causes the “SLTP” program to automatically change its output file each month. Using the setting “Monthly” will cause the SLTP data for January of 2007 to be written to a file called “SL0701.TXT”. February’s file would be “SL0702.TXT”. If you wish to use this feature, you will need to go into SYS  Config File  Change Misc. Configurations. Change field # 4006 to “Monthly”.

16 Miscellaneous Utilities EMP – Employee Restrictions

17 Miscellaneous Utilities EMP – Employee Restrictions If you wish to use this feature, you will need to go into SYS  Config File  Change Misc. Configurations. Change field # 4027 to “P”. Example: You may not want certain employees to be able to do voids so you would uncheck “Allow Voids”. In POS under “Misc. Opt”, there is a “Management Override” option that ask for a Manager login. Once the manager login is set, the employee will be able to do the void of the sale.

18 Miscellaneous Utilities Microsoft Excel Exports There are many programs that can be sent to Microsoft Excel instead of to the Printer. –SLE, SLP, IVP, MLP, XPRT, and others. This enables stores to look at their data on screen and manipulate it by using features in Microsoft Excel.

19 Miscellaneous Utilities Allows you to create a generic item number for something not in the CB&M database Create a Generic Number

Miscellaneous Utilities Question and Answer session

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