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Choosing the MRP

What you’ll do here: bill the right MRP when the shop has the same item at an old MRP and a new MRP.

Why this happens

Companies raise MRPs from time to time. Your shelf may then have the same item at two MRPs: old packets at ₹100 and new packets at ₹105. By law, you can’t charge more than the MRP printed on the packet in the customer’s hand.

Setu keeps the stock of each MRP apart. These are called MRP lots. Each lot has its own MRP, its own rate and its own stock.

At the counter

When you scan or pick an item that has stock at more than one MRP, a small window asks:

“ZZ Tea 250 g: Which MRP is printed on the packet?”

It lists only the MRPs that have stock, oldest first. Each row shows No., MRP, Rate, Stock and Mfg (manufacturing month, if it was entered).

1. Look at the MRP printed on the customer’s packet.
2. Pick that row: move with ↑ ↓ and press Enter, or click it and press Enter, or double-click it.
3. The line goes on the bill at that MRP. Its rate is never above that MRP.

Esc closes the window and adds nothing.

If the item has stock at only one MRP, Setu doesn’t ask. It just adds the item.

If the item was bought with batch numbers, Setu shows its batches instead, in a list titled Select batch — earliest expiry first, with each batch’s MRP and stock. Pick the batch with the MRP on the customer’s packet.

An item bought with batch numbers: pick the batch with the packet’s MRP.

When the packet’s MRP isn’t in the list

The last row is MRP on the packet is not here. Pick it, and Setu shows the item’s other MRPs that have no stock now. Billing one of them takes its stock below zero.

If the MRP still isn’t there, pick MRP on the packet is not in this list either. Setu adds nothing. Scan the item again and pick an MRP from the list, or ask the manager to enter that MRP with the purchase.

If you pick an MRP with too little stock, Setu says, for example, “MRP ₹100: only 3 left. Choose another MRP.”

How lots are made

You don’t make lots yourself. Setu makes them:

• When the MRP changes in the item master. Setu tells you, for example: “MRP changed to ₹105 for new stock. 8 in stock stay at MRP ₹100 and sell at ₹95.” The old packets keep their MRP and rate.
• When a purchase comes in at a new MRP. That stock gets its own lot.
• When a purchase comes in at an older MRP that already has a lot (old stock delivered after a price rise). It goes into that older lot. The item’s prices don’t change.

On a purchase bill (Alt+P), when an item is already in stock at more than one MRP, Setu asks which lot this purchase adds to, or a new lot.

Seeing and correcting lots

• Stocks › Stock by MRP shows each item’s stock at each MRP.
• Stocks › Old MRP stock shows stock still at an older MRP, so you can sell it first.
• In Current Stock, the side panel shows “MRP lots of <item>”. Insert changes the stock of one lot, for example after counting the shelf. A cashier’s change is saved for the owner to review.

See Items and stock for more.