OfficeMate Home Office User's Guide - OfficeMate Software Solutions

Updating Many Products & Services
Chapter 4 Maintaining Product & Service Information
Enter the pricing information that you want to update:
Notes
• You cannot undo changes made in the Product Maintenance
window. If you make a mistake, you can return to the Product
Maintenance window and make additional changes that
counteract the mistake; however, not all mistakes can be easily
fixed.
• Changing the cost and fee of attributes on the Maintenance
Update window only effects the attributes of the products
selected on the Product Maintenance window. For information
on changing the cost or fee of attributes for all new products,
go to To add & modify attributes on page 105.
a. Select the check box(es) that corresponds with the attribute cost(s) or
fee(s) you want to update.
b. Select the Percent radio button to update the product cost or fee by a
percentage, or select the Amount radio button to change the product cost
of fee by a specific amount.
c. From the Math drop-down menus, select the operation you wish to
perform. Refer the table below for a description of each of the Math
operators.
Operator
Description
+ Adds the percentage or amount specified to the existing
product cost or fee.
– Subtracts the percentage or amount specified from the
existing product cost or fee.
= Resets the cost or fee to the specified amount regardless of
the cost or fee currently associated with the products.
d. Type the percent or amount of the cost or fee change.
e. Select the Update Prod. Cost radio button to update the product cost
information, or select the Update Prod. Fee radio button to update the
product fee information.
f. If you want all of the product costs and fees to end with the same amount
of cents (for example, maybe your costs or fees end with 99 cents: $1.99,
$2.99, $3.99, etc.), type the number of cents in the End text box.
Note
Be sure to type the cents after the decimal point.
g. If you entered any cents in step f, select the Up radio button to round the
price up to the cents you entered in step f, or select the Down radio button
to round the price down to the cents you entered in step f.
Review your changes for accuracy.
If you need to clear your changes, click Clear.
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