EBMS includes the feature to download product promotions listed on Keystone flyers. The product specials are downloaded within the Special Orders system of EBMS. In order to use this functionality you will need to have purchased the Special Order EBMS module. Complete the following steps to download the latest promotions:
1. Launch the download utility by selecting Inventory > Utilities > Get Keystone Flyers.
2. Select Download Updates at the bottom of the screen
3. All promotions are downloaded as shown below:
• View by Manufacturer allows you to query what you see so that you can activate only certain items with Special Prices.
• The Flyer list shows all the Keystone flyers assorciated with your account
• The bottom inventor list shows the items in the flyer.
Activating a Flyer for Retail Sales
The EBMS utility to Manage Keystone Flyer also gives the user the ability to create special prices for the POS Retail. If a flyer is not activated no Special Pricing records will be created to affect retail sales. There are two different way to activate a flyer as shown below:
A Flyer has three different Special Pricing statuses. Click on the check box to rotate through them.
• The filled box as shown on Flyer F20 above allows part of the Flyer to be activated by selecting the individual items with in it
• The checked box as shown on Flyer F21 above activates all the items in a Flyer. This is most commonly used.
• A box that isn’t checked will have no Special Pricing records created for it.
Changing the Retail Percentage
When a Special Pricing is created EBMS sets a retail price. This can be adjusted as shown below:
• Applies To allows the user to specify which Price Levels are affect by this Flyer. This is normally set to [All] so that all Price Levels are affected.
• Selling Price is the recommend amount that Keystone suggest that the item is sold for. The can be overridden by the Discount Formula
• The Discount Formula allows the user to change the selling markup percentage for a whole flyer. If Reduce to Keystone Flyer Price is used and the regular retail price is lower, EBMS will not raise the price. All other formula will overrided the regular retail price for the item.
Always click Process after downloading new Flyers or making changes to existing Flyers. Since the promotions are entered with a range of dates, they do not need to be deleted after the promotions expire.