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| Access the PriceUpater Menu by clicking its boldface menu label at the top of the screen. |
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| About PriceUpdater gives you copyright and contact information. |
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| Help gives you a brief introduction to the program, access to these web pages, and a button to click when you're ready to buy the program. |
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| What's New gives you a brief rundown of what's changed in the latest edition. |
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| Tutorial opens your web browser and brings up these web pages, which are stored locally on your machine when you install the program. |
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| Test Drive lets you import some make-believe pricing data to play with while you check out the features of the program. Try it in Carpet One mode. Try it in Generic mode. |
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| Create New List spawns an empty copy of the pricing file. Use it to create separate price lists. Use it to try out different scenarios. Use it to maintain multiple lists with different markup percentages. |
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| Choose Interface lets you change the program's look and behavior. Carpet One mode is tailored for Carpet One stores. Generic mode is suitable for any retail store. |
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| Imports Supported lists the cost pricing files from which PriceUpdater can automatically import data. When you download your pricing files and hand them off to PriceUpdater, you get all your products into a single, searchable file. |
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| Import Data from a File helps you extract cost pricing from files that the program doesn't handle automatically. PriceUpdater can import from Excel files, text files, FileMaker files, database files. Choose which fields you want to import, which ones you don't. Rehearse the import order till you get it right. Then give the go-ahead to keep the imported data. Beats typing! |
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| Main Screen takes you back to the program's opening screen. |
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| Your Logo Here lets you print your corporate logo on your price tags. Or use this graphic field to place an attention-grabbing graphic on your sale-priced items. |
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| Download Pricing opens a screen for keeping a list of your online downloads. The list displays clickable links to your vendors' pricing files, and the program logs the date when you last download each pricing file.
A companion program, LinkCaddy, opens in the background when you use the Download Pricing command. You can organize all your links in LinkCaddy: phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, web addresses, your passwords and user names. |
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| Dump Duplicates & Expired inspects every record in your pricing file for duplicate and expired promotional pricing. Tired of seeing old promos show up in the list? Dump 'em. Seeing double after an update or restore? Let PriceUpdater winnow out the useless records. |
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| Get Incomplete Records is useful after an update or import. When a pricing entry doesn't have a cost price or other essential detail, the program sidelines it. The Get Incomplete Records command shows you these records and gives you the opportunity to work on them separately.
Some Carpet One price lists don't provide a cost price. Use this command to gang up such items. Then you can supply the cost amount per your own distributor. |
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| Round Retail Price can round your selling prices in several different ways. It sets the rounded price into the custom price field so you can compare it visually with the calculated price. The Rounding Options command lets you choose the rounding scheme to apply: nearest 5 cents or 9 cents; nearest 99 cents; nearest ten dollars rounded to nine and no cents.
Prices in the custom price fields override calculated prices on price tags and price lists.
If you want to round your pricing, do it as the final "touch up" step, after you've settled on your percentages and extras.
Show/Hide Cents, a toggle on the price tag viewing screens, brings additional nuance to any rounding scheme you have applied. |
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| Backup stores your current pricing data in a file for later retrieval. When you want the option of restoring things to "the way you had them," use the Backup command in advance of a chancy maneuver.
Data stored as a backup file takes up much less space on your computer's hard disk than a copy of the pricing file. Backup data contains only numbers and words, no software code.
A backup file is the ideal way to hand off your pricing data to another user or another computer in your store. The recipient need only give the Restore command and select your backup file as the source. |
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| Backup Selective backs up only the records you are currently viewing, not the entire pricing list. This comes in handy when you want to do an update but don't want to change a certain selection of records. Do your selective backup, with only the desired records showing on the screen. Do your update. And then Restore the records you backed up selectively. |
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| Web Page Create exports the records you are currently viewing to an html file that you can view in a web browser or publish on your website. |
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| Restore lets you return your pricing to "the way it was" when you backed up your data. You may choose any backup file you created in the past, or one that you just received from another PriceUpdater user. |
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| Restore Custom Parameters lets you apply your established custom markups and extras to new cost pricing. When you've just updated your cost pricing via Update Now button, use this command to apply your former extras and custom percentages. |
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| Restore Most Recent Update gives you the chance to recover from unwanted changes in your pricing file. If you've doctored your pricing beyond recognition, use this command to quickly reset all cost pricing to your latest update and apply your global markup.
You can use this command on a secondary pricing file to calculate pricing at a different markup percentage (see Create New List).
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| License Agreement spells out your privileges as a user of PriceUpdater.
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