You can use the Sales Units option in three different ways.
As a feature to keep a count of items used. The count of items used is reset to 0 at each End of Day. This function is not capable of reporting starting inventory, just items used.
As a Permanent meter for bar employees.
As a countdown meter that will decrease each time an item is ordered.
NOTE: Instead of using of Sales Unit as Countdown meters, you can set a Countdown Value in each Sales Item in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Items Setup / Links / Counter.
Description
Enter a meaningful description for the Sales Unit.
Item
Select the item to be used with this Sale Unit. To keep track of items used instead, leave this field to Undefined.
NOTE: If left to Undefined, the sales item needs to be linked to a sales unit through Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Items Setup / [item] / Links / Counter / Sale Unit.
Permanent Meter
Enter the starting value of the permanent meter. This is mostly used with countdown meters. If used to track the number of items used, leave this field at 0.
Countdown
Enable this option to use this sales unit as a countdown meter. The meter will count down from the value set in the Permanent Meter field, above.
Multiple
Enable this option to allow linking the same Countdown meter to many sales items.
NOTE: This can be used to show the remaining number of hamburgers on their own or as part of combos, for example.
The Permanent Meter option is used for bar employees that don't want to enter the sale every time every time they sell an item. If you use the Permanent Meter, bar employees can enter the value of meter they use at the end of their shift and make meter adjustments. The workstation will calculate then the employee's sales totals.
Description
Type in a meaningful description, for example, "Draft Beer Meter".
Item
Select the Sales Item that will be used with this Sales Unit.
Permanent Meter
Enter the starting value of your permanent meters. For example, it could be the draft beer meter.
Countdown
Leave disabled. Each time the Sales Item will be ordered, the Sales Unit meter will be increased by the quantity ordered.
Multiple
Leave disabled.
You could use the Sales Units to act as a Countdown meter for your Daily Special. If you are making 50 lasagnas for your lunch, you could create a Sales Unit Lasagna .The Permanent Meter field will be set to 50 and Countdown will be selected. You will see a number beside the Lasagna item on the touchscreen. Each time the server will order lasagna, this number will decrease and at the count of 0 it will be automatically unavailable.
Description
Type in a meaningful description, for example, "Lunch Lasagna Special".
Item
Select the Sales Item that will be used with this Sales Unit.
Permanent Meter
Enter the starting value of your countdown meter. For example, if you have 20 daily specials, enter 20.
Countdown
Enable this option. Each time the Sales Item will be ordered, the Sales Units meter will be decreased by the quantity ordered.
Multiple
Leave disabled.
NOTE: To use Sales Unit as a Countdown Meter the Permanent Meter field in Point of Sale Control / View / Options must be enabled. You must also check the permanent Meter option in the Employees / Configuration / Setup Functions.
If you want to keep count of eggs usage for example, you could create a Sales Unit called Egg. Then you would link this Sales Unit to every Sales Items using Eggs. For an omelet, you can enter four times the Sales unit Egg so each time you sell an omelet, the Sales Unit Egg will be increased by four.
Description
Type in a meaningful description, for example, "Eggs Used".
Item
Select "Undefined"
Permanent Meter
Enter the starting value of your countdown meter. To keep track of items used, this should normally be 0.
Countdown
Disable this option. Each time a Sales Item linked to this sales unit is sold, the counter will increase.
Multiple
Enable this option in order to link multiple sales items to this sales unit.
NOTE: The sales item(s) needs to be linked to a sales unit through Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Items Setup / [item] / Links / Counter / Sale Unit.