Selling Lottery Tickets?

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Thezystop

• March 09, 2018 12:28

I own a small convenience shop and I'm trying to set up the software to handle either a negative quantity or a negative price. I don't know if this is possible or not. I also cant figure out how to set up a follow-on item. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  Aronium Support

  • March 09, 2018 12:36

  Hi,

  Unfortunately, there is no way to enter negative quantity in sales.

  Can you describe a use case better, how it would work in practice, just to make sure we understand the requirement correctly and try to find a way to do it, if possible?

  Thanks.

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  Thezystop

  • March 09, 2018 12:48

  When a customer cashes in a winning lottery ticket the winning amount needs to be a negative.(example: Customer wins $100 and takes $50 in cash and the other $50in product) how do i keep track of the money going out and the money going in. As far as the follow on item. I sell soda and in NY we are required to collect a bottle deposit on soda and beer. When i scan a soda i would like the $.05 bottle deposit to automatically be added to the soda without having to manually add it every sale. ( I have an employee that may or may not know what has a deposit and what does not.)

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  Aronium Support

  • March 09, 2018 13:06
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  Thanks for the clarification.

  Unfortunately, none of these functionalities exists at this moment. The best you can do regarding lottery ticket is to use the refund option for this scenario, as follows:

  1. Create a new product (name it "Lottery" or similar)
  2. Turn on "Price change allowed" for this product (with this option turned on, you will be asked to enter/confirm price before item is added to the sale)
  3. Turn on "Service (not using stock)" option, too, so it does not counts quantities on stock
  4. When customer wins $100, create a "refund" with this item, and enter $100 for the price, close it with a "Cash" payment type

  Regarding follow-up item, unfortunately, all you can do is manually add "deposit" item along with a bottle being sold, there is no automatic process for this.

  We will consider adding these functionalities in the future, for sure, if I remember correctly, some other users asked for lottery, too.

  If you wish, we can move this to the feature requests, so other users can comment and vote, if it gets enough votes, it will probably be picked up for development.

  Thanks.

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  Thezystop

  • March 09, 2018 16:36

  By all mean please move this thread to feature requests. They are both handy suggestions. Thank you for all the help.

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  Ryan Schaffner

  • March 14, 2018 03:45

  I live in michigan.  Also need the Bottle Deposit option (Perhaps add an option to Tax, but set price rather than %.
  
  As for negative prices, I don't see why the software does not allow this.  All moder POS systems allow negative prices.

   

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