Denver Research

We might be able to add an entry into the Activity Log that shows over discounted items.

If even possible, is it the same amount of work to just turn that into a report under >Inventory that can be generated?  The reporting feature is amazing.  Being able to easily access a specific report and generate an ENTIRE list based upon a timeline is fantastic.  Plus having the correct fields displayed such as:

STAFF member - this way for every single over-discounted item we wouldn't need to log into every sale to find out who is doing it.  Their names would all be on the list.

Original Price, Discount, Profit, Total, Tax (to see if TAX FREE was also selected)

If not, is this a report that you could create for that "custom work" fee? In this case, I'm not sure it would be worth the fee to me.

Although helpful donations to the project could be appreciated 

Yeah Ronald, if you can be open to working with me to customize a few aspects of the program for my business needs I'd like to discuss that and costs please.  I think these would add overall value as well to the more retail aspect of your program.  Or even offering to trade my 16+ years of graphic design knowledge if you're ever looking to modernize the program icons or graphics.  As you can tell with nearly all of my posts, they relate to security.  How can I make sure an employee does not have the ability to take merchandise and more importantly a way to take their commission away on a sale over a certain percentage.

Speaking of low margins ... I can't simply figure out what I need to set "low margin watch" to in order to flag anything discounted over 20% off.  I tried 80, I tried 20 ... but I am only getting warnings when I greatly discount items, not the 20%+ off that I am looking for.

Sorry for 3 posts back to back but I have spent a few hours tweaking my POS system (which I love doing) and I can't help but agree with rjsmeyer that considering to put a way to track "Margin Low Warning" via a report would be fantastic.  From a retailers point of view this would basically eliminate ANY worry about employees trying to sneak large discounts to customers or even steal a product by hitting the 10% OFF (military discount) button until the $500 product is now free ... or even worse .... negative and they could get cash back!

That sale would show up in the "Low Margin Warning" Report and the salesperson would be logged in.  The report would need to show the Transaction Number, Staff/Cashier, Retail price, Discount, Net Price.

Just an idea but this is the report as a retailer I think myself and rjsmeyer is in need of to help watch out for employee theft and our profit margins.

EDIT:  Also, does the "pop-up" window show up if ANY item is under the low margin watch number?  For instance:

milk - full price
bread - full price
soda - full price
chips - full price
cookies - 60% off

The entire sale might only be 18% lower than a full price total sale since 4/5 items are full price.  So will the window pop-up warning of low margins?  Does it pop-up if ANY of the items are over the margin watch number regardless of overall final price?

is there a report that can be generated to see when this warning has been bypassed?  I can find reports for discounts given and various other things, but not that.  I think it would be useful.

is there anything that might indicate the Margin Warning was over-ridden (ignored)?

Concerning this I just print off a STAFF > DETAIL Report.  All of my employees are give the job title of Staff instead of Cashier, etc.  From this report I can select my employee "Dylan" and track each sale over the past month and it's pretty easy to see any big discounts because each sale will list the discount given.  Then I figure out manually how much commission he would get and remove it come payday.  But the bad thing is if you do a lot of volume you'll be wasting hundreds of pieces of paper to maybe find 7 sales where they over-discounted or maybe even none at all.

As the title states, I am using Shopify to build an online website to better help our brick and mortar store.  We would like to be able to collect customer information at our store and upload it via CSV into our website.  Does v14 currently allow the option to export customer list by CSV?

And personally if I return stock to a supplier I will use Inventory Adjust and "Shortage".  This way I can easily track later via Shortage Reports what was taken out, plus it gives me my cost on the product so I know if I shortaged 20 items at a cost of $200 that I better see a credit of $200.  I also can easily print 2  shortage reports afterwards, one for my records and one to send back as a Packing Slip to my vendor.

Not sure which way is better for you but that works great for me

I remember reading somewhere on the forum there was a way that the POS can let you know when an item has been overly discounted.  However, I am unsure how to do that and if you can set parameters, such as "notify me if a product is sold below 20% off".  I can see by using reports the list price, discount and sold price but if I sell 20 of that item then if only one was overly discounted but the rest were all sold at full price it is very hard to figure out that 1 of the pairs was grossly over discounted, perhaps even for less than cost.