Bookstore Manager Trainings Presented by Robbie Halstead Kingdom Retail Solutions

1. Bookstore Manager Trainings Presented by Robbie Halstead Kingdom Retail Solutions www.KingdomRetail.com robbie@kingdomretail.com

2. Miscellaneous Utilities

3. Miscellaneous Utilities AMM – Alternate Menu’s

4. 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… Miscellaneous Utilities

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 <Save=F5>

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 <Chg User=F6> 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 <Save=F5> • 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 <Save=F5>.

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

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

20. Miscellaneous Utilities • Question and Answer session

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