# Mid-Stock Price Change

Mid Stock Selling Price Change allows you to deal with the situation where a pub has changed its prices part way through a stock period. StockManager will then accurately calculate the stock result based on the mid-stock changes. If there has been a retail price change mid-period, the stocktaker usually has to manually calculate the additional takings and then apply them as an allowance. With this option, the stocktaker can define the before/after ratio and all the calculations are done automatically. So, for example, if the price change was done 10 days into a 30 day stock period, the Open Ratio would be 10 and the Close Ratio would be 20. This would ensure that one third of the sales would be calculated at the old price and two thirds at the new price. Instead of using a number of days, it may be more appropriate to use the takings details off a till z-read. So, if the takings before the price rise were £4000 and £3000 afterwards, the open ratio would be 4 and the closing ratio would be 3. The most accurate set of data would be the PLU readings off the till roll. You would have to enter the number of drinks sold at the old price as the open ratio and the number at the new price as the close ratio. Each product would have its own ratio set up and the GP% calculation would be precise. However, this method does mean a lot of time would be spent typing in figures and you must choose the most appropriate method. When mid-stock price changes have taken place and this option has been used, the Stock Report will show two lines for each product. The upper line will be the details at the new price and the lower line for the old price. The Summary Reportand the Stock Report will both show estimated sales figures based on the joint selling prices and ratios. For multi-bar outlets, each bar can have a different ratio for a given product. The actual price changes can be made anywhere, i.e. you can do them here, or on the individual Price Change screen, or on the Stocks screen. You can type in the ratios for all products individually, or you can get the computer to do the work for you. Open/Mid/Close Ratio can be any whole number. Mid/Close Price are stardard selling prices. The Set All Ratios button will apply the ratios to all of the products which have had a price change. The Display All button will display all products, not just the live ones. Once you are displaying all products, the button's text will change to 'Display Live' so you can use it to toggle between all products and live products. You can define products as live on the Stocks screen.

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