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How To: Mark Vendor Product Prices as Contracted
Contracted prices are pre-negotiated pricing agreements between a buyer and a vendor. Instead of purchasing goods at the vendor’s list or retail prices, contracted prices lock in specific costs for products or services, often across a set time ...
FAQs: What's the best way to clean up old inventory items without any activity?
Q: What's the best way to clean up old inventory items without any activity? A: The best way to clean up old inventory items without any activity is to turn on Yellow Dog’s system setting “Mark Items with No Recent Activity as Removed”. It helps you ...
How To: View On-Hand Quantities
Quick access to on-hand quantities ensures speed, accuracy, and alignment across operation, making it easier to manage stock and support sound business decisions. All client types Access to the Item Management > Inventory Items screen and the ability ...
Feature Overview: Merging Items
What is ‘Merge Items’? Merging Items will allow users to combine two or more items into a single item. NOTE: merging items cannot be undone, and users should be cautious when utilizing this feature When to use Merge: Merging is ideal when a duplicate ...
FAQs: What's the difference between inactive and removed items?
Q: What's the difference between inactive and removed items? A: When managing your item catalog in Yellow Dog Inventory, you may need to retire products that are not currently in use. The system provides two distinct options for doing this: Inactive ...
How To: Control Who Edits Certain Items with Approved Items
It’s important to protect your data integrity. While some items may be safe for users to edit, you may want to restrict changes to certain items. Approved items in Yellow Dog allow you to control edit ability by item. All client types can take ...
How To: Add Additional Size to an Inventory Item
Being able to create items with multiple sizes in Yellow Dog Inventory ensures accurate tracking of stock across all variations of the same product. This improves reporting, streamlines ordering, and prevents discrepancies. For Concessions and Food & ...
How To: Set Usage Percentages on Trimmed Items
Being able to set a usage (yield) percentage is important because it ensures that trim, waste, or other product loss is factored into both inventory depletion and costing. This keeps recipe costs accurate and prevents undercounting of raw ingredients ...
Feature Overview: Stand Items - Item Types
Assigning an item type to stand items ensures the right items are counted in and out (items that are not assigned an item type will never appear in your count ins/count outs). Concessions The item type is set on the Size Behavior Tab. Figure 1. The ...
Quick Reference: Item Types & Behaviors
Knowing the different item types is essential for accurate inventory tracking and clean financial reporting. Each type—whether matrix, parent-child, kit, or no count—controls how items are counted, sold, and expensed. Using the right type streamlines ...
Quick Reference: Inventory Items Dropdowns & Filters
On the Item Management > Inventory Items screen, you’ll find several dropdown filters and options to help refine your search and display the specific item details you need. Views: Views provide different perspectives on your inventory items, making ...
Feature Overview: Barcodes
Barcodes are important in Yellow Dog Inventory because they provide a fast, accurate way to identify and track items across receiving, sales, and inventory counts. They reduce manual entry errors, speed up processes, and ensure consistent product ...
FAQs: What are Base Units?
Q: What are Base Units? A: A base unit is the smallest, most basic unit of measure for an inventory item. In the configuration of an item, the base unit will be the on-hand size (parent size) that displays in reporting. Figure 1. An example of an ...
How To: Updates Items to Base Unit Configuration
With Base Unit setup, the on-hand size will be the base unit (the smallest, most basic unit of measure for the inventory item). The benefits of this approach are: Standardization: Base Units ensure consistency in inventory tracking, making it easier ...
How To: Add Pictures to Inventory Items
Adding pictures to inventory items in Yellow Dog Inventory speeds identification, reduces errors, and improves training, communication, and operational efficiency. All client types can benefit from adding picture to inventory items. Item Editor ...
How To: Set Par Levels and Reorder Points
Par Levels and Reorder Points in Yellow Dog Inventory are essential for maintaining optimal stock levels. They help prevent stockouts, avoid overstocking, and allow your team to make more informed purchasing decisions. Setting Par Levels and Reorder ...
Feature Overview: Retail Price Fields
Yellow Dog offers 3 different retail price fields (Default Retail, Current Retail, Starting Retail) in the item editor to provide different retail price tracking functions. Item Editor > Retail Details tab Retail users who manage retail prices Retail ...
FAQs: Updating the Default Vendor
This article answers the frequently asked questions related to updating the Default Vendor on an inventory item. Q: Why can’t I update the default vendor on the F&B Details or Retail Details tab? A: The ability to change the primary vendor on the F&B ...
How To: Assign Sales Channels
To appear in the correct SkyTab Venue (VenueNext) menu, each POS item must be assigned to a corresponding Sales Channel in Yellow Dog. These steps should be taken by Concessions Client with a SkyTab Venue (VenueNext) integration. Item needs to be ...
Feature Overview: Item Views
Views in Yellow Dog Inventory provide unique perspectives on your inventory items, helping you find the right information and make informed decisions. Item Management > inventory Items > View dropdown Use views to display relevant inventory item ...
Tips and Tricks: Tax Free Sale Event Setup
For 2-way point-of-sales integration where Yellow Dog controls and pushes item information, you can configure items to be tax free for special tax free events. Create a $0 Tax Option in POS Please reach out your POS to learn how to add taxes to your ...
Tips and Tricks: Removing Items with On-Hand Quantity (Decimal)
You might encounter difficulty removing specific inventory items due to an error indicating that the item cannot be removed since its on-hand quantity is not zero, possibly because the decimal point is not properly adjusted. Removing Items with ...
FAQs: Retail Price Fields
This article answers frequently asked questions about the retail price fields—Default Retail, Current Retail, and Starting Retail—on the Retail Details tab in the Yellow Dog Inventory Item Editor. Q: Where are the retail price fields located? A: You ...
How To: Create a New Vendor Product
The same product may be purchased in different sizes and/or from different vendors. Though these products have different Vendor Part Numbers (Vendor PNs), they will need to be associated to one Yellow Dog item to ensure proper inventory item ...
Can Yellow Dog handle items that are purchased at one size and counted at another?
This Video will discuss configuring items with multiple sizes Yes! Yellow Dog can accommodate items that are purchased at one size and counted at a second size. The system can also accommodate any additional sizes that may be required – for instance ...
FAQs: Where can I add UPCs to items?
Q: Where can I add UPCs to items? A: There are three places UPCs can be assigned to items: The Retail Details tab has space for 3 UPCs to be added: The Additional UPCs tab provides space for unlimited UPCs to be added: The Interactive View will allow ...
What are Yellow Dogs Best Practices for managing Retail Prices?
To ensure that Retail Prices continue to reflect accurately in your Point of Sale, Yellow Dog recommends limiting who has access to the ability to Edit Retail Prices. This will prevent any accidental or unplanned changes to Retail Prices. Permissions ...
What are Bins and how can I use them?
Bins are supplemental location markers. Unlike flags they do not have to be created prior to assigning them to items and are primarily used in in the stores tab to identify more precisely where an item is located. They can also be used in Physicals ...
Troubleshooting: Why can’t I edit some of my items?
Unable to edit items. This may be caused by the item being marked as approved. To check if the item has been marked as an approved item: Navigate to Item Management > Inventory Items. Click to highlight the item and select Edit Item. Select the Other ...
How do I import new parent/child items?
Yellow Dog provides the ability to import items into the database. Using this feature must be done with extreme caution. If mistakes are made during the import process, and development is required to rectify those mistakes, there will be a labor ...
How do I import brand new item data into Yellow Dog?
Yellow Dog provides the ability to import items into the database. Using this feature must be done with extreme caution. If mistakes are made during the import process, and development is required to rectify those mistakes, there will be a labor ...
How Do I Print Labels in Yellow Dog?
You can choose to print labels item by item or add them all to a label queue and print them all at once. To print your items individually, you can highlight your item and select the button print label: | Select the store that you are printing labels ...
What are Yellow Dogs best practices for breaking Parent/Child Items?
Yellow Dog can create related or Parent/Child Items, and an example could be bottles of wine- they are ordered by the case and sold by the bottle. Yellow Dog also provides the ability to Swap or break those relationships. Click Here for a step by ...
How To: Swap the On-Hand/Parent Size (Edit Base Unit)
When managing items with multiple sizes, it’s essential to configure them correctly. The on-hand/parent size should always represent the base unit or smallest measurement, while additional sizes should be created for purchasing or counting sizes. If ...
How do I add tax to Shopify Items?
Yellow Dog has two methods of updating items in Shopify: The item gets created in Yellow Dog and pushed over to Shopify. The item gets created in Yellow Dog and in Shopify and just the on hand is updated when the sync runs. If you are pushing items ...
Can I sell items by weight?
Issue: You have deli items that are sold by weight and want the items on hand on to deduct appropriately when sold at the point of sale. An example would be Chicken Salad. Resolution: Use the Calculate Qty by Retail function. This configuration ...
Tips & Tricks: How do I update interfaces?
Interfaces are how Yellow Dog controls item behavior in the Point of Sale, and these settings are highly customizable. This article will provide some general guidance for updating these settings. For additional assistance regarding your point of sale ...
Tips & Tricks: How do I update a large number of items at once?
Issue: Need to update the level/Vendor/Store assignment etc. of many items at once. Trick: This can be done via one of the many Right-Click Functions. Tip: Right-Click functions are dictated by permissions. If you cannot see the option, you are ...
How To: Create a Retail Item (Individual SKU)
Creating a retail item correctly ensures accurate counts, reliable reporting, and smooth POS syncing. It sets the foundation for trustworthy data across the entire Yellow Dog system. Retail Clients Retail Item Overview (6 min) Note: The below steps ...
Quick Reference: Inventory Items Screen Filters
Use this as a quick reference on the filters located on the Item Management > Inventory Items screen. For more in-depth guidance, search our Knowledge Base for related Feature Overview, How-To, and FAQs articles. There are several filter options ...
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