General Settings

 

To Configure the General Settings

 

  1. From the Upper Menu, click File | Preferences | Settings.

  2. Select the General tab.

  3. Enter in your Serial Number (optional). 

  4. Configure the fields that you wish. See Details Below.

  5. Click Save and Close. 

Display Backup Reminder – When you exit the program you can have Optimum Control remind you to backup. 

Display Order Reminder – This will automatically notify you if your stock levels are below minimum levels that you set when logging into the program. This by default is OFF and can be turned on at any time. You can access this feature by choosing Order Reminder in the Purchasing window.

Display Price Variance Alerts - This feature is really handy for letting you know if you have made a costing or pricing mistake (you know… the old, enter $1200.00 per kilo of prime rib instead of $12.00)…sometimes you may enter a price incorrectly or for the wrong package size. What you can do is set a trigger to notify you if you have entered a price that is a certain percentage different from the previous one.
This feature will trigger in the invoice, items and bid request windows if the new price is out by more than the set percent threshold.  A message will display, alerting you of the amount that is different.

Price Variance Threshold – Enter the amount of the threshold. 30% works well but you may wish to be even tighter with an amount like 10% or even 5%. 

Show Advanced Tax Fields and Invoice Window - In some markets you will want to display the taxes as calculated by the program on each item. Turning this feature on will show three fields in the invoice Taxes and adjustments window

Catering Wizard Price Percentages – In the Catering Wizard, when selecting Items or Prep recipes for an event, the price will be selected as the cost price. Here, we have defaulted the costing to 35% so that each item you select in the catering wizard will be marked up 65%. You can change this number at any time and if you are selecting products for an event. The retail selling price will be used and NOT the price percentage. This is only for items and preps.