Stock Maintenance - Miscellaneous

General Information

This screen tab contains information that falls into several miscellaneous categories, including sales person commission information, royalties calculations, subscription information, points and rewards program information, and product-specific customer notice.

See Also

Stock Maintenance - Overview

Sales Commissions Calculations

These fields are used to determine the way in which sales commissions are calculated for sales of the item. Commissions are reported on the Profit by Product report. Any user of M.O.M. can be setup as a salesperson in the Maintain User Security Profile Function. If you do not pay commissions on the product, these fields should not be used.

You may use one or any combination of the fields for commission calculation.

SELLING PRICE - enter the percentage figure for a commission based on the price each unit is sold at.

GROSS PROFIT - enter the percentage figure for a commission based on the gross profit (selling price - cost of goods) for the item.

PER UNIT RATE - enter a dollar figure for a commission based on each unit of the item sold.

Note: The fields above can be used in combination.

Points/Rewards

If a points and rewards program has been established in Maintain Global Parameters - Accounting and points are either earned or redeemed based on specific products, then an entry may be required here if the item is that specific product.

POINTS RECEIVED WHEN PURCHASED - if the item is used to earn points, enter the number of points earned whenever the item is purchased by a customer.

USE __ POINTS TO BUY THIS PRODUCT - if the product can be "bought" by redeeming points, check this box, and enter the number of points required to get the product with points.

Royalties Calculations

These fields are used to determine to whom royalties are to be paid and how royalties are calculated for sales of the item. Royalties are reported in the Product Royalties Report, on the Profit and Response submenu of the Reports menu. If you do not pay royalties on the product, these fields should not be used.

SUPPLIER FOR ROYALTY PAYMENT - enter the supplier code to whom the royalty is to be paid. Lookup/List is available on this field. Note: A supplier in this case does not necessarily have to be an actual supplier of products to your company, but can be any individual or company to whom royalties are paid based on product sales. Supplier codes are setup in the Supplier Maintenance function.

SELLING PRICE - enter the percentage figure for a royalty based on the price each unit is sold at.

GROSS PROFIT - enter the percentage figure for a royalty on the gross profit (selling price - cost of goods) for the item.

PER UNIT RATE - enter a dollar figure for a royalty based on each unit of the item sold.

Note: The fields above can be used in combination.

Subscription Product Information

These fields are dimmed unless the Subscription Management Module is installed.

SUBSCRIPTION PRODUCT - check this box if the product is to be filled as a subscription item.

SUBSCRIPTION ISSUE COUNT - the number of issues that a customer receives in the subscription product. Several subscriptions may be created for single publication, each one with a different issue count; e.g, one-year subscription (12 issues), two-year subscription (24 issues), etc.

PUBLICATION CODE - the code for the publication being subscribed; such as, name of magazine, newsletter, etc.

Club Membership Plan

These fields are dimmed unless a Club Membership Plan has been created.

CLUB MEMBERSHIP PLAN PRODUCT - check this box if the product is to be used as a club membership "trigger" item.

PLAN TO USE -   select the plan to associate with the "trigger" item.

Customer Notice

If you want to automatically send one of the customer form letters that you have set up in Customer Notices Maintenance, use the pull-down menus to select the Customer Notice to Send when Product is Ordered and When to Generate Notice.

Custom Information For Line Item

CUSTOM INFORMATION FOR PRODUCT - check this box to prompt for custom information for this stock item.

PROMPT FOR CUSTOM INFORMATION - message to prompt the order entry person to enter custom information.

Advanced Search Criteria

These fields are used to allow additional search criteria. the item. The search criteria are set up in the Miscellaneous tab of the Global Parameters.  An example would be if the item was a book, the additional field could be Author's Name, Type of Book, Printing and Languages.