Adding New Products While Updating Prices

Use User Defined Auto Price Updating to add new products to inventory while running a price update. Before running the price update for new products, complete the following:

Import the vendor's price update file.
Define default information for new products. This default product information allows the system to create a product record for each product on the update file not found in your inventory.
Run the update on any products already in your inventory.

After the update, you can access the new product records and add more detailed information if necessary.

To add new products while updating prices:

Display the character based system.

Note: The Auto Price Update functionality has not been incorporated into Solar Eclipse as of this release.

From the System > Printers menu, select Your Hold Entries to display the Spooler Control screen.
Position the cursor on the name of the update file, and use the Process hot key to display the User Defined Upload Processing screen.
In the Processing Type field, enter Auto Product Price Updating and use the Begin hot key to display the User Defined Auto Price Updating screen.
In the Work ID field, enter the appropriate work ID for the update file.
Set the New Items Mode field to one of the following to create new product records during a price update:

Prompt - Selectively adds new products to the file. The Auto Price Updating Product Matching screen displays every time the system encounters a new product. This update may take several minutes if the update file contains many new products.
Add - Updates the products and adds any new products in the update file. Run the update in Add mode only after you have updated the products. If the file contains a new line of products only, you can use Add the first time you run the update.

Use the New Profile hot key to create a default profile for new products.
Press Esc to save the new product data and return to the User Defined Auto Price Updating screen.

Verify all necessary information for the price update is included on the User Defined Auto Price Updating screen before running the update.

After running the update, the User Defined Auto Price Updating screen displays, and an update report is sent to your Hold file showing the products that were added. The updated value on the report is the new product's price, the PrevListcolumn shows 0.00, and the gross profit percent change column shows 100.0% since the product is new.

Review the new product records to ensure they have been assigned necessary information before changing the product status from Review to Stock or Nonstock.