The Product Group Maintenance form is used for creating new Product Groups.  For example, you can create a product group for a specific brand of cake mixes. Product Groups can be set up with the following four options:

    • Product Groups for Reporting: Once you have created a Product Group for Reporting you can pull up Sales in the Customer Sales or Product Sales form. You can also analyze your Gross Profits for a particular Product Group in the Analyze Product Category form. Products can be assigned to multiple Reporting Groups.
    • Product Groups for Pricing: Once you have created a Product Group for Pricing the product price changes can be applied for the entire group through the Product Maintenance form, or applied to all items in the group in an Ad batch or Normal price change batch. Products can only be assigned to one Pricing Group.
    • Special Mix Match Codes are used for groups with like items on sale, for example, soft drinks or cake mixes. They should have the same price. Special Mix Match Codes expire when the sale is over. For example, buy 1 candy bar for $1.05, buy 3 in the group for $3.00.
    • Regular Mix Match Codes are used to group the items for use with or normal group pricing. For example, buy 1 candy bar for $1.05, buy 3 in the group for $3.00.


From the Point of Sale Menu, select the Product Group Maintenance task.

  1. Press Add in the toolbar. Select the Group Type. Select Reporting, Pricing, Special MixMatch or Regular Mix MatchReportingPricing from the Group Type drop down.
  2. Press Add. Enter a Product Group ID:  The ID is used internally and cannot be more than six characters.Product_Group_Id 
  3. Enter a Product Group Description, Product_Group_Descriptionwhich can be longer than the ID. This is the description that appears in various screens throughout Retail such as the “Show Product Sales” task or “Analyze Product Categories” task. To access this information go to the “Other” drop down lists within these various forms.
  4. In the Select Products section, you have several options for creating your product group. You may enter a UPC, UPC_or_range_of_UPCs an Item Code,L.I5FS a Manufacturer's Code, Manufacturer_s_Codeor an existing Product Group.MP34H4
    • Manufacture's Code: The manufacturer's code is the first five digits after the leading digit. For example: 0 1234567890 5. The manufacturer's code would be 12345. Type in the code and press Tab or Enter to populate the grid.
  1. You may also search for products using the Retail Search form.
    • From the ColumnColumn_2 field, select the first criterion, such as Description.
    • Select the OperatorOperator, for example, = or Like.
    • In the ValueValue field, enter the description of the product, such as “cake mix”. If you are searching by Department, Section, or Vendor, press the ellipsis button and a list box will open up for you to select from.
    • To further filter the products to be edited, flag the check box next to the second row and make your selections. For example, select “Normal Price”, then “>” (greater than), then enter the price “2.00”.
    • You may filter the products to be edited further by selecting the third check box. When you are finished with your selections, press the Find ButtonFind_Button. The products meeting your criteria will be displayed on the bottom left of the form in the Products grid.
  1. Select the products by highlighting the product in the Product list box and pressing the arrow button or double click on each item you want to send to the Product Group List BoxProduct_Group_List_Box. You can also select the entire category by pressing the double right arrow >> button.  When you try to send the whole group Retail will prompt with “Do you want to add all current products to the products group?” 
  2. To delete items from a group deselect each item in the group by pressing the deselect arrows.  To deselect all of the items, press the double left arrow << button. You will be prompted “Are you sure you want to remove all products fro this group?” If you answer “Yes”, you will be prompted, “Do you want to remove this product group header?” If you answer “Yes”, the product group will be deleted.


NOTE: To delete an entire group press the ‘Delete Group’ button from the toolbar. Answer ‘Yes’ to the prompt ‘Do you want to permanently delete the group (group name)?’ 

NOTE: Coupon Groups are created from Coupon Designer.