In2Retail furniture price guides and lists generated online

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Instore 'Range charts' & price lists

Instore price lists are so important to allow you & your sales staff to stay with a customer whilst presenting your different products to them, instead of having to repeatedly go back & forth to a filing cabinet or computer to look up prices.

In2Retail offer many forms of price lookup, one of the more traditional methods is to actually print an 'Event' price list whenever you run a promotion. This is extremely easy to do using the X-Margin system. As soon as you've calculated your prices you can click a button to produce stylish printed price lists in a choice of formats.

As a 'Live' example, follow the simple instructions below to produce a mock-up promotional 'Event' for your store.

The button below will launch the In2Retail demonstration database in X-Margin. Please read the notes to the right before clicking the button.

Notes

Systems requirements Microsoft Explorer V6.0+
Several system features simply will not work with other browsers.

X-Margin opens in a new window. If this does not appear then please check your popup blocker.

General:
The demonstration database has lots of sample data where other users have uploaded and manipulated the data in testing the systems. All prices are random figures and any changes that you make could literally be changed again by another user within a few seconds.

If you were to become a subscriber to these systems then you would have your own private database that only you and your selected staff could access.

Printing:
Your browser may need adjusting slightly where margins may need to be zeroed out with browser page headers and footers removed. This can be done by clicking on your browsers
FILE | Page settings button.

If you choose 'Compile & preview' the system will try and go directly into print preview mode but your browser may block this as a potential security threat. To use this feature in preference to 'Compile & print' you will need to add this site to your 'trusted sites' list or change security settings to allow active-X controls.

Calculating a supplier file

Fire up the demonstration store database by clicking on the X-Margin button above. This will open in a new window so you will need to flick back and forth between this page and the system, or print this page.

The first step in this example is to re-calculate a furniture supplier file so that we can then print a whole new set of prices within a picture price list as shown above. Typically this is what you would do for a new store promotion. Instructions in blue below e.g. Calculate | Calculate mean, select 'Calculate' from the main menu bar in X-Margin and then select 'Calculate' from the sub menu option visible after selecting the first.

Click on the X-Margin Calculate | Calculate and select a supplier from the first dropdown list. In order to print a picture price list you must select a supplier that has lots of images attached to it. In the demonstration database try 'Alstons Cabinet' or 'Wood bros'. Then choose a range or 'All ranges' from the next dropdown list.

From the bottom row of choices select the following,
Price point = 'Monte Carlo'
Calculation type = 'Percentage on'
Apply to = 'Cost'
Figure = whatever figure you like, e.g. '140', '100', '75'
Result in = 'Usual'

You should end up with the X-Margin calculator screen looking like the diagram below.

click on the 'Calculate' button.

What you've just asked for is, take the Cost price and multiply this by 140 percent, put the result in the 'Usual' price column & automatically price point all prices using the 'Monte Carlo' method. You could then repeat this with a different figure and store the result in 'Sell' giving you an 'Event' price too.

Once you click the 'Calculate' button, you've instantly re-priced either, the entire supplier or your selected range. You've also applied one of several professional price rounding routines.

Printing the price list

We now simply need to print the price list. Click on Reports | Price lists | Range charts. From here you can print any number of picture price lists, where each can have a typed header if you wish, e.g. 'Valid until Saturday 25th July'. The price list defaults to 7 images across by 5 images down. These should fit on an A4 sheet of paper, if necessary, you can adjust these figures to suit whatever paper size you're printing on.

You will find a 'Pricing' dropdown list where you can choose whether to print prices or not. If you choose dual pricing then the 'Event' price will be taken from the currently 'Active' selling price column. This is set from Edit | Set active prices, but more about that later.

Click on 'Compile & preview' or on 'Compile & print'. Compile & preview may be blocked by your browser, see notes to the right.

You can also choose other price list styles by clicking, Reports | Price lists & selecting a style.

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