Scheduled prices and batch offers

Two things a shop plans ahead of the till, done by Isletek on the day rather than by somebody remembering.

A scheduled price: from a day you pick, a product sells at a new price. On that morning Isletek writes it to the POS, queues the shelf label and sends it to the tills by itself. The product's card wears the waiting price as a pill until then, and Products › Scheduled prices lists every one.

A batch offer: one cheap pallet at an offer price, then back to the regular price (or a new one) once the batch is gone. Isletek starts the offer in the POS and then watches the till: every few minutes it reads how many have sold and how fast, works out when the batch runs out, and ends the offer a little early, by a lead time you set, because what is still on the shelf then is already in trolleys. Ending on the last tin instead would ring the next pallet at the offer and lose the margin on every one. When it ends, the bell says so with what was estimated and what happened; an hour later and again the next day, once every trolley has gone through the till, it counts how many really went at the offer price.

Both work with printed labels today and are what electronic shelf labels will follow.