The promotions grid is used to define dollar amount promotions or percentage based promotions. Up to 10 dollar based promotions can be defined for a single item in the promotions grid.

 

•Dollar based promotions are validated sequentially from 1 to 10. Once entrée finds a valid item promotion, no further testing is performed.

 

•Some distributors use this feature to set quantity breakpoints.

If a customer buys up to 5 cases of the product they would get the promotion rate of $1.00 per case off.

If the same customer bought 6 to 10 cases of the product they would receive $1.25 per case off.

 

•The grid could also be used to set multiple date ranges for the promotion.

An example of this could be a promotion on Breaded Chicken Wings for the first week of every quarter.

 

$ Amt

Enter the dollar amount of the promotion in this column.

 

%  

Calculate promotion as a percentage of the item's Unit Price.

 

Min and Max Qty

These columns are used to edit/view the quantity restrictions of the dollar based promotion.

 

•If the minimum and maximum quantity values are left at 0, no quantity restrictions are enforced.

•If a minimum quantity is entered, a maximum quantity must also be entered for the promotion.

 

Begin and End Date

Theses columns are used to edit/view the date restrictions of the dollar based promotion.

 

•If the beginning or ending date values are left at blank, the promotion is considered inactive and will not be used.

•When items are added to an invoice, the invoice date is qualified against the beginning and ending date of each promotion until a valid promotion is found or all promotions have been checked.

•Once a promotion expires, entrée will retain the promotion data until it is explicitly changed or deleted.

 

$ Bill Back

This column allows for the definition of a vendor billback to be associated with the promotion.

 

•The amount entered for the $ Bill Back does not have to equal the promotion dollar amount.

•The $ Bill Back amount is for internal tracking purposes and will not be shown on the printed invoices.

•Many of the entrée sales reports can be configured to display the $ Bill Back amount for the sale by adding the Unit Billback and/or Extended Billback columns to the report. The Commodity report is most commonly used for reporting on billback activity.

•The Unit Rebate and Extended Rebate columns found on many of the sales reports are related to vendor rebates/billbacks and should not be confused with the promotion billback.

 

Misc Code

This column allows for a dollar based promotion to be linked to customers that have been assigned a specific miscellaneous code, located on the Miscellaneous tab of customer file maintenance.

 

•The misc code for the promotion is optional and if it is left blank, no miscellaneous code restrictions are enforced.