Altru Ideas

Merchandise improvement ideas

Hey community, we'll be doing some work on merchandise later this year (YEAH!) and would like your input on what the most important changes would be for your organization.  If you could play Altru CEO for the day, how would you rank these features in order of priority?  Which would you build first, second, etc?  Feel free to add to this list if something from your personal Top 10 is missing.

Also, if you're not currently using Altru for merchandise, give us a fair estimate of where you would draw the line in order to adopt Altru (ex. "my first 5 are must have, but the others could wait.")

In no particular order:
A. Multiple sales screen configurations (ie. one for gift shop, one for front desk)
B. Purchase orders (enter, track, and receive orders from vendors)
C. Import new items from a CSV file
D. Line-item price adjustments (ex. take $1 off a damaged item)
E. Import physical count data from scanners or CSV
F. Print labels of different sizes
G. Integration with eCommerce system (please indicate your objectives)
H. Tax-free sales
I. Sell gift cards with store credit
J. Set different tax rates on certain items (ex. food is 2% and apparel is 7%)

Note, these are primarily the "large" features.  We also have plans to work on a few other small things that have come up in the community, such as adding expected/vendor cost as an item field or changing "Sale price" to "Retail price" or adding Margin % as a column on the item record.

Thanks!
- Jonathon

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  • Chelsey Lundin commented
    August 11, 2021 18:41

    It would be so valuable to be able to import the excel documents for the merchandise batch entries. This way multiple people could check inventory each year and we wouldn't have to merge the batches by hand before submitting them.



  • Alison Long commented
    September 20, 2019 13:16

    I may be a little late on this, but definitely A, and this would need to include the ability to create merch item buttons in daily sales: https://altru.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ALTRU-I-290

    Some other priorities:

    - VARIABLE PRICING!  Item where the user can input the price, similar to Square.  This is a must-have when inventory changes rapidly and you're selling items that have not yet been entered in Altru.

    - Ability to add/change dimensions after creating a merch item

    - Maybe online sales of merchandise

  • Jen Lomeli commented
    March 27, 2019 16:15

    I am looking to be able to add expiration dates on items so I can run a report or have a tickler system set up to remind me when items are expiring 30 days out etc. 

    I am also interested in seeing a way to simply scan merchandise as it comes in using the UPC on the merch to enter it into Altru, 

  • Guest commented
    March 19, 2019 19:55

    I don't currently use Altru, so without knowing what it already offers, these are my must haves:

    A.

    G.

     

    3. Good price

    4. Tracking COGS

    5. Inventory/sales reporting

  • Colleen Zlock commented
    August 03, 2018 17:13

    A, B, J, D, H

  • Breanne Leach commented
    May 10, 2018 22:16

    I don't need a separate screen, but we need the ability to create buttons for specific merch items (the way we can for discounts, memberships, price types...).

  • Breanne Leach commented
    September 20, 2017 22:50

    I wouldn't want to have to have my front desk staff have to switch to a new screen to sell merchandise (as this is where we sell our film tickets). If you implement #1, please continue to allow merchandise to be sold where it is too.

    I would like to see individual merchandise items to be allowed to have buttons configured to the daily sales page like price types/coupons/memberships (this idea: https://altru.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ALTRU-I-290). In this way, you could set up your merch "on a different screen" if you wanted... or in our case, where we just have the one item, we wouldn't have to look it up every time, we could just click the button.

  • Katrina Heller commented
    January 14, 2017 18:52

    In order of importance:

    F

    B

    D

    A

    I

  • Guest commented
    November 30, 2016 15:49

    - expand on this, concerning month end inventory, to export physical count worksheet data to "Merchandise Physical Count Batch" instead of having to load each individual SKU

  • Mike Vess commented
    August 27, 2016 16:06

    A

    B

    E

    More "dimensions" to allow for greater item customization

    Sorta related would be an ability to have an item be flagged to print on a second receipt printer, we would love to be able to use Altru in our gift store but also merge our concessions/cafe and box office in our movie theatre but the inability to customize food items and print a kitchen ticket prevents that.

  • Guest commented
    June 21, 2016 21:33

    A - Separate sales screens for each museum.

    F

    B

    C

    E

  • Guest commented
    March 31, 2016 14:19

    Yes to all of the above!

  • Guest commented
    March 17, 2016 14:19

    Definitely A, B, D, E

  • Gillian Armstrong commented
    March 02, 2016 22:02

    Purchase orders!

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