Striven HELP
Promotions
- Adam Sheean
- Nicholas Hallam
- Sabina Paudel
- Darcy Trenfield
Striven can handle promotions which is a great way to quickly set discounts on different ranges of products.
Create / Update Promotion
Create / Update Promotion | |
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| 1 | Create the promotion in the Enter Promotion Codes and Lines. The easiest way of finding this is to search for “promo” in the Striven menu, then click on Enter Stock Promotion Codes and Lines  Promotion Search |
| 2 | To create a new promotion press F5 - New. Otherwise search for a promotion or press F2 to view the list of available promotions. Enter in the following fields: Promotion Code Description Alpha Sort By  The Description will appear as a text note on your customers dockets |
| 3 | In the main area of this screen enter in the starting and ending dates of when this promotion should be active. Start Date End Date You can also put in Start and End Times if you like. Such as a “1 hour sale”.  Promotion - Start and End Dates |
There are different ways of adding products to this promotion:
Individual products. Use the Products tab for this.
All products in a specific Departments, Group, Fineline range. Use the Fineline tab for this.
Being particular in filtering down to specific fields in your product file such as by Description, Bin Location, Supplier. Use the Advanced tab for this.
Products Tab - Add specific products
Use the Products tab to add specific products and pricing per product.
Products Tab | |
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| 1 | Click on the Products tab, and add each product into this list. The easiest way is to just type in the product into the Stock from Stock file field.  Products - Add products |
| 2 | It will default to a Discount Type of Fixed Price. If you need it to be a Percentage Off, then change the discount type. Then enter in the price you wish this promotion to use in the Promo Sale Inc GST field.  Discount Type and Promo Sale Price Inc. GST Keep doing this process for each product. Press F9 to save the products. |
Finelines - Discounts by specific Department, Group, Fineline
Use the Finelines tab to add specific discounts by a Department, Group or Fineline
Finelines tab | |
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| 1 | Click on the Finelines tab to create a promotion discount based on the products Department, Group and Fineline. Press F10 - Add Grid Line to add a new line to the list. Here is a sample where the system is giving 10% off any product in Department 1, but 5% off any product in department 2.  Promotion - Finelines tab Press F9 - Save. |
Advanced Tab - Specific filtering
Use the Advanced tab to create different pricing ranges based on specific fields on the product.
Advanced Tab | |
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| 1 | Click on the Advanced tab, and add different ways of filtering your products and applying different pricing based on those filters. Click on the red arrow to create a new Filter.  Then double click on the Filter Desc cell to load up the Filter window.  Add a filter by selecting it from the list.  Filter field list  |
| 2 | Example 1 Give 50% discount to all products that have VEXA in the description. Add a filter where the Description has a “Word Match” of VEXA.  Apply a discount to that filter match.  |
POS
The promotion will normally take effect immediately. But sometimes it is best to go out of POS and back in again for it to refresh if you have just created it.
Promotion Labels
To print labels that show the Promotion price on them follow these instructions:
Activate IHG Promotions
If you are an IHG store, the monthly promotions/catalogues are downloaded from IHG every morning.
To import and activate one of these promotions, go to Stock → Updates → Collect/Process Updates:
You should now see a list of downloaded promotions from IHG.
Simply tick the ones that you want to activate and hit the F9 - Import button.
Promotions are not activated?
Check below settings:
Update the IHG Promotions list if a promo is missing
If you find that a promo is not present after IHG has sent them to stores, you can press 'Updates' within the File Import window. A 'Send/Receive Data' window will pop up and run the download automatically, updating any promotions from IHG.
If the Send/Receive Data window does not automatically close after the progress has finalised and the download is complete, you can press 'Close' to exit the window.
The promotion should automatically load into the promo in the Import window; this may take a few seconds.