SAM4s ER-290 Operators Manual.pdf

PLU (Price Look Up) ProgrammingThe ER-290 offers 200 PLUs (Price Look Ups) as a standard feature. Like departments PLUs (PriceLook Ups) may be open or preset.• Preset PLUs are used to register preset items. The most significant difference betweena preset department and a preset PLU is the method of registration. While presetdepartments are registered by simply pressing the department key, preset PLUs areregistered by entering the PLU number and pressing the PLU key.There are many possible uses for preset PLUs. Since there are many more PLUs thandepartments, you may use PLUs when you wish to accurately price and count a largergroup of items. Possible uses include: menu items in a restaurant or items (such ascigarettes) that you wish to inventory.• Use open PLUs when you wish enter different priced items into a larger number ofcategories.Programming PLU StatusThere are two parts to PLU programming. PLU status is set here. Depending on whether you selectopen or preset PLU status is this section, you can also program either the open PLU entry limit or thepreset PLU price. See “Programming PLU Entry Limit or Price” on page 64.Use this section to program the following status options:• Set negative PLUs that subtract from the sale, rather than normal positive PLUs whichadd to the sale.• Enforce the entry of a non-adding number before the PLU entry. See “Non AddNumber” on page 34 for operation sequences.• Disable the PLUs, so that entries are not allowed.• Choose Open or Preset PLUs.• Set single item PLUs which automatically total as a cash sale immediately after thePLUs entry. Single item departments are used to speed up one item sales.• Select a tax status to determine whether sales tax is automatically added.ER-290 Electronic Cash Register Advanced Programming Instructions • 61