Step by step
Schedule a price change
Set new prices to start at a date and time, at every branch or one. Nothing changes until then, and you can print the shelf labels ahead.
When a supplier tells you their prices go up on the 1st, set your new prices now to start at that moment, and print the shelf labels ahead. Kila records the change with a number.
Open Products › Margins, then Scheduled
The tab lists the changes waiting for their moment and those already made.
Tap Schedule a price change
“The till charges the new prices from the moment you choose, at every branch or one. Until then nothing changes.”
Steps 3 to 6 on one screen. Choose when
Choose the day in Takes effect on. At starts at 00:01: “Nairobi time.”
Choose where
Every branch, or one branch. “One branch uses its own price list.”
Add the products and their new prices
Search or scan each product, then type its New price, VAT included, next to what it costs Now. Add a Note if you like, such as why the prices change.
Tap Schedule
Kila says PC-… scheduled, with the record’s number: “2 prices change at …. Print the shelf labels ahead and put them up then.” The prices stay as they are until that moment.
Print the shelf labels
The change waits in the list as Waiting, with Shelf labels and PDF. Tap Shelf labels for a PDF of the labels to put up when the change takes effect.
Good to know
Owners can be told when a scheduled change takes effect: Tell owners when a scheduled change takes effect, under Products › Margins, Price rules.
You need to call it off
Link to this section: You need to call it offTap Cancel on its row before its moment. Kila asks whether to cancel the record: “The prices stay as they are.” Type Why and tap Cancel the change. Kila says Cancelled: “Those prices will not change.” The record stays in the list as Cancelled, with who called it off and why.
A new price is below the minimum margin
Link to this section: A new price is below the minimum marginIf the owner has set minimum margins, Kila says Below the minimum margin, for example “Kilimanjaro Vodka 750ml at KES 1,400 is below the minimum margin of 30% (Vodka)”, with the price that keeps it. Schedule stays grey until you type the Reason.
- Change prices in bulk: a whole category or brand now.
- Print shelf labels: labels for any price change.
- Set up a price list: a branch’s own prices.
Next: Print shelf labels for the change.