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Retail Cost Line [FM]

Retail Cost Line​

From the DockMaster menu, select File Maintenance > Retail Cost Line

Prerequisite: The Point of Sale Parameters Enable Cost Line prompt must be checked to enable the Retail Cost Line.

This file allows tracking the cost of non-inventoried (one-time part) items. The user defines a string of ten non-repeating letters to correspond to the numbers 0 through 9.

For example, the word MAKEPROFIT has 10 letters of which none are the same. Using this word, M would be equal to 1, A = 2, K = 3, E = 4, and so on. A price tag with the letters MAA would mean that the cost of this item is $2.11 (A = 2, M = 1). Cost codes do not affect selling prices; they are used to generate a cost. The selling price is entered by the clerk.

The accounting entries are derived from the department entered at the time of sale. The department is a required entry when a Cost Line is used.

  • Cost Characters - Enter ten Cost Characters (letters) to represent the Retail Cost Line. Each letter must be different. Each character represents the number listed below it.