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Weight and volume
Choose the appropriate workspace and branch. Your plan, enabled modules and team permissions determine which actions are available.
Sell by weight and volume is in CreekPOS Online from the Retail plan. This chapter describes CreekPOS Online.
Switching on
Open Settings → Weight and volume, pick the template (Roastery, Spice shop, Sweets, Butcher or Perfume / oud / attar) and press Apply the template, or switch on Sell by weight and volume in Settings → Features. A new shop that picks one of these types in the setup wizard starts with it on.
Then give weighed products a unit (kg, g, 100 g, ml, l, tola, lb…) and tick sold by weight. The tola is 11.66 g; the perfume template adds a 12 ml tola you can edit.
At the till
Tap a weighed product and enter the weight, read it from the scale, enter money ("20 AED": the till works out the weight to the gram and charges exactly 20.00) or pieces of an item priced by the kilo. Pick a container and its weight comes off (tare); the receipt prints "gross 0.300 − tare 0.050 kg".
Scale labels
Labels printed by a label-printing scale are read at the scan: tick the scale's layout (price or weight, prefixes 20–29) and its prefix in the settings, and give each product its short code (PLU) in the barcode field. Bags you pack yourself get weighed labels from Inventory → Weighed labels: net weight, price per kg, total, packed and best-before dates, and a barcode the till reads back.
Custom blends
Press Blend, add the parts (3 ml Oud A, 2 ml Musk B, 5 ml carrier, or 60 % / 40 % for coffee), pick a container and press Price it. Each part's stock goes down by what went in; the fee and the bottle are added. Save the formula for the customer ("Ahmed's mix") and sell it again at any size. With the perfume template the receipt shows the blend's name, not its recipe.
Roast and pack batches
Inventory → Roast, grind and pack: record what went in and what came out (10 kg green in, 8.4 kg roasted out). The loss is recorded and the cost per kilo carried to the result. Packing turns a sack into bags. Shrinkage and evaporation are write-off reasons of their own; Reports → Stock by weight shows kilos and litres with their value.
On this screen
Online · Weight and volume
For shops that sell by the gram, the kilo or the millilitre: roasteries, spice and sweets shops, butchers, greengrocers, perfume and oud shops. Every till reads these settings, also without internet.
Fills in the containers with typical tares and the units your trade uses. You can change everything afterwards.
Weighing with a container's tare, selling 20's worth, pieces of an item sold by the kilo, blends with saved formulas, your scale's labels and your own pre-packed labels.
The weight of an empty container in grams comes off the reading when the cashier picks it. Link a container to a product to charge for it (a bottle); leave it free otherwise.
A unit your trade uses with its size in grams (a weight) or millilitres (a volume): a 12 ml tola for oils, a local ratl.
Tick the layouts your label-printing scales use and set their prefix (I = item code, K = price check digit, V = value, C = check digit). The item code is the product's short barcode (its PLU). The marked one is used for the labels you print yourself.
Off: the receipt names the blend only (or "Custom blend #1") — a perfumer's formula stays the house's.
A product with the fee's price; a blend adds one of it (the cashier may leave it off).
Shop template · Apply the template · Sell by weight and volume (blends, tare, scale labels) · Containers and their tare · Code · Name · Kind · Tare (g) · Holds · Charged as · Unit · Free (no charge) · Your own units · Measures
Online · Roast, grind and pack
What goes in comes out of stock, what comes out goes in; the weight lost is recorded and the batch's cost is carried to what came out.
Roasting: 10 kg green in, 8.4 kg roasted out. Packing: 8.25 kg of the sack in, 33 bags of 250 g out (give the bag its piece weight under Settings) — what is left stays in the sack.
Meat trimmed, spices dried, oils evaporated: take it off the stock with its reason (the waste report lists it).
Stock by weight · Batch cost · Weight lost · Goes in · Item · Quantity in its unit · The batch's own cost (gas, labour, bags) · Note · Comes out · Item made · Quantity made · Work it out · Record the batch · Shrinkage and evaporation
Online · Blends and formulas
The house blends and the formulas saved for customers at the till. A formula sells again in one tap at any size; each part's stock goes down by what goes in.
A house blend shows on every customer's list at the till.
Weight and volume · No formula saved yet. · Name · For · Recipe · Size · Price · House blend · Remove from the till · A new house blend · Parts given as · Amounts · Percentages of a size · Size (for percentages)
Online · Weighed labels
For packing behind the counter: each label carries the item, the net, the unit price, the total, the packing day, the best-before and the same barcode a scale prints — the till charges it like a scale's label.
Weight and volume · Name · Net in each bag · "250 g", "0.5 kg", "1 tola"… · Count · Packed on · Make the labels · Print
Desktop · Weight and volume
Weight, amount or pieces · Container · Tare (g) · Add to the sale · Read the scale · Cancel · The scale's reading (the container's tare comes off).
Desktop · Blend for this sale
House · Size · Sell this formula · Parts as percentages of the size · Part · Amount or % · Unit · Container · Customer's own bottle · Mixing fee · Save as a house blend · Add to the sale · Work it out · Cancel
Desktop · Weight & volume
Blend for this sale · Roast, grind and pack · Shrinkage and evaporation · Weighed labels · Stock by weight and refill prices · Weight and volume settings · Only the manager can change these settings. · Close · No item sold by weight or volume is in stock yet. · Name · Qty · Reason · Note · Take it off the stock
Desktop · Roast, grind and pack
Roasting: 10 kg green in, 8.4 kg roasted out. Packing: the sack's kilos in, the bags out (give the bag its piece weight in the settings).
pc · Goes in · Qty · The batch's own cost · Comes out · Work it out · Record the batch
Desktop · Weighed labels
Name · Net in each bag · How many · Packed on · Print the labels
Desktop · Weight and volume settings
Shop template · Apply the template · Print a blend's recipe on the receipt · No mixing fee · Free (no charge) · Mixing fee · As set under the scale (prefix and format) · Scale-label layout · Prefix · Code · Name · Tare (g) · Charged as · Piece (g/ml)