Retail Pricing, Wholesale pricing and Customer Specific Pricing
I am currently preparing to use Checkout for our raw pet food business however, I have run into a snag...
Our facility currently sells product retail to the public, but we also sell the same products at wholesale rates to other retail facilities. I did not see an option in the Checkout software for having multiple prices for the same product (eg. retail, wholesale) to achieve this.
My first thought was to create a second store in checkout for wholesale (eg. store 1-retail, store 2-wholesale) and input the wholesale pricing. Unfortunately, this presents another problem in that any product sold/allocated in one store would not affect the inventory of the other (both stores use product the same inventory).
Short of simply adjusting the pricing as I go, is there any way of achieving what I am trying to do while still maintaining a common inventory?
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1 Posted by Jonathan White on 02 Dec, 2015 08:46 AM
Hi Mike
There are a couple of things that might work for you but remember that Checkout is aimed at the customer present/small retail scenario and you may possibly be trying to bend it a bit too far.
Firstly, you could use the discount function to apply the appropriate discount to wholesale orders i.e. you prepare the sale as normal, convert it to an order, apply a percentage discount and then switch back to a sale.
Secondly, you could do as you suggest; have two different Checkout store files and transfer inventory between the two using the Stock Correction feature.
inventory management apart I can see problems with trying to run a wholesale operation of any size using Checkout: tracking receivables being an example, whilst you can do this in Checkout the feature is quite rudimentary. Can I suggest you look at AccountEdge, a Mac accounting application from the same developers as Checkout, which would allow you to run your wholesale business easily as well as taking a transaction import from Checkout and, of course, providing full accounting solution for your business.
Jonathan
AnCreeban.com
2 Posted by shawn on 08 Dec, 2015 06:19 PM
Why not just create product variants with different "tiers" and price the variants for wholesale differently.