These settings have already been setup with the defaults, but if you wish to change them, you can do so in

1. System Manager, Stock, Enter Levy Maintenance.

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It is RBI’s recommendation NOT to change anything here until you speak to RBI first.

Stock Maintenance

To setup a levy manually on a product, click on the General tab, and add the “Paint Levy” attribute to the atttribute group box, and set the value to Yes.

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It will calculate the levy amount from what is in the “Size” field.

Note: the size field can be changed on the main tab now.

The program will automatically work out what the levy amount is from the size in the format of

4L, 2L, 1L, 250ML, 500ML for example.

Please ensure you have set the sizes up correctly.

If the Size and Paint Levy attribute have been setup correctly, the levy amount is shown in the costs area on the Quick Entry tab and on the Costs tab.

Quick Entry tab

Costs Tab

POS

POS will now show you any products that have the levy included.

The levy amount does not alter the normal sale price.

It is included in your costs.

Invoice Printouts

All printouts will print the footer detail that is setup in the Levy Maintenance (as described above).

There is also a marked “^” on each product that has a levy assigned.

Day Book

You can see the Levy amount that you have sold in any period of time on the Day Book Report.

It is shown at the bottom of the main page.

There is a grand total and total per station.

Catalogue Export

If you wish to quickly update a range of items in the Catalogue, please use the Catalogue Export/Import utility which is in the Utilities menu.

Then select the Paint Levy option. Why not setup all the sizes in here while you are at it.

Stock Export

You can also update just the Stock records by using the Stock Export/Import utility. Which is found in the Utilities menu.

Comparison Report

If you are in a multistore group and you update your stock items via the Comparison report, please ensure you run the “Attributes Changes” reports in the comparison report.

This will copy the Size and Paint Levy attributes from the Catalogue to the Stock.

In the price file that is going to be imported by the store:

1. Ensure the size is added - the levy will calculate based on this number.

2. Ensure the RRP is inc GST and Levy

3. Add a column called Price Levy and copy the Y’s and N’s into that column.

When importing the file ensure the update size and update levy boxes are ticked.