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Brother/Stationery News Reseller of the Year Results

Terry Murphy and Chris Hoban of Surry Office NationalBarry Patterson and wife Debbie of The Paper Bahn Office NationalReadysell would like to congratulate Surry Office National and The Paper Bahn Office National for taking out the Brother/Stationery News Reseller of the Year awards in their respective categories. Both long-time Readysell customers, these dealers have won the top award amongst a pool of over 1000 nominations.

This is the first time Office Brands members have wom both award in the same year. “This has been the culmination of a lot of hard work, said Surry owner Chris Hoban. “We have really tried to do things a little differently over the past few years and today is the culmination of all of that effort,” The Paper Bahn, owner Barry Paterson said.

We hope that we can continue provide the necessary tools to assist all of our customers in further growing their businesses and we hope to see even more Readysell customers amongst the finalists in years to come.

Introducing Our Newest Team Member

We’d like to send out a long overdue welcome to our newest team member, Tony Zhu. Tony joined Readysell in late July and has been helping with the development of Readysell 8 and Readysell’s various .NET projects. As Adam will be on holidays for the next month, you may be hearing a bit more from Tony, so here’s a brief introduction.

My name is Tony Zhu and I’d like to introduce myself as a recent addition to the Readysell team.

I’ve joined the team as a Analyst Programmer after working for the last 4 years at a software company targeting financial services as a software developer. Some of my other experiences include software developing at a software center of a large oil and gas company in Beijing.

I’m hoping that my wide ranging experiences as well as specific skills with software developing technologies can be applied to my new role at Readysell. I am excited about helping improve the effectiveness and efficiency of operations here at Readysell  and am confident that these improvements will flow on to each of Readysell’s clients.

I look forward to working with all of you.

We are very excited to have Tony on board, welcome to the team!

Readysell Goes Solar

Readysell's Newly Installed Solar PanelsIn an effort to counteract greenhouse effect of all of the hot-heads in the Readysell office, we have recently installed solar panels on the roof of our building. The system will produce over 12,000kWh each year, saving the equivalent of 10 tonnes of coal-produced CO2 emissions.

This forms the first step in a range of approaches Readysell will employ to help reduce our carbon footprint. We will continue to investigate steps we can take to further this goal in the months and years to come.

We apologise any customers that may have been affected by our recent power outages necessary to get this system installed. The work is now complete and we are fully operational.

In-House Training

In-House Training at ReadysellAdam managed to discreetly capture this snapshot of a typical in-house training situation between the company directors. After so many years of working with Greg, John has finally perfected the art of passing down the knowledge; protecting himself from even the toughest questions.

You can only imagine how far he has to go when it comes to dealing with our toughest customers!

Reminder: Searching for Previous Codes

Just a reminder that if your store has been converted over to Office Brands EZ Codes, you will need to use an alternative technique to search for your products based on their old code.

Readysell has a document available on our web site in the Support Downloads section. You can find it under Readysell Version 7 > Products and Stock as “How to search for Previous Codes”. Please refer to this document for more information about EZ Codes and how this affects your Readysell software.

Searching for Previous Codes

If your store has been converted over to Office Brands EZ Codes, you will need to use an alternative technique to search for your products based on their old code. Readysell now has a document available on our web site in the Support Downloads section. You can find it under Readysell Version 7 > Products and Stock as “How to search for Previous Codes”. Please refer to this document for more information about EZ Codes and how this affects your Readysell software.

Catalogue Loading Halt

As part of the Office Brands coding project, Readysell has deployed the new EZ-Codes as part of catalogue OP22. Readysell request that all customers who have not been explicity advised to do otherwise delete catalogue OP22 off your system.

If you have accidentally loaded this catalogue, please contact our support team for assistance.

Stocktake Procedure

Below is a brief point-form summary of what needs to be done in to run a full stocktake for an entire store.

  1. Run stock on hand report before you commence stocktake, log onto Readysell, select report wizard, type = management, description = stock on hand report; highlight it and click on run highlighted report, close query.
  2. Start Stocktakes, Log onto Readysell, Select Product Transactions,Close Stock Adjustments, Click on ‘Stocktakes’ icon top task bar.
  3. Run “Flag Products as not counted” on Tab 4 Modify, Exit = NO, Exit = NO, Exit = NO, close query.
  4. Add each stocktakes as follows:
    • Click on Insert
    • Ensure that the check overwrite flag check box is not TICKED
    • Enter or scan in product and input quantity
    • Click OK when all products entered
    • Highlight stock and click on tab 3 print, print stocktake variances for one stocktake before stocktake applied
    • Check variance report if you need to change any quantities then do so on each stocktakes
    • Repeat step 4 until all stocktakes entered
  5. Backup entire database before u apply any stocktakes (MUST ring Readysell)
  6. Apply stocktakes
    • Click on Tab 3 print”Print Stocktake variance for stocktakes by date range applied after stocktakes applied or print stocktake variances for all stocktakes by date posted after applied” ensure to archive and print either one
  7. Create empty Stocktake
    • Click on Insert
    • Ensure that the check overwrite flag check box is NOT TICKED
    • Click on tab 4 modify and select “Add all non counted products to this stocktake as zero on hand”, close query
    • Check it and then apply it
  8. Run another stock on hand report after applying and check products/qtyonhand (step 1).
  9. Adjustment stock takes after applying all stocktakes- click on insert a stocktake and enter products and quantities.
  10. Turn overwrite flag ON.
  11. Print Variance report before applying.
  12. Apply Stocktake.
  13. Print Variance after applying/archive.
  14. 14. Run another stock on hand and check products/qtyonhand.

Using Data Capture Unit – Cipher Lab

  1. From your desktop double click on Icon ‘8000 Cradel Shortcut’.
  2. Put scanner into cradle and select option 2 upload.
  3. Press any key to continue on command prompt.
  4. Click on Yes to download question.
  5. Print report.
  6. Press any key to continue on command prompt on ‘import pde transaction’.
  7. High – CIPHER LAB – CIPHER STOCKTAKE -DOULBE CLICK TO OPEN.
  8. Leave the Prefix and Suffix Box un-flagged and make sure they are CLEAR.
  9. Leave all other boxes as default settings all unchecked.
  10. Click on OK to continue.
  11. Click on OK again to accept stocktake number.
  12. Print report that appears.

Using Data Logic Unit

  1. Double click Readysell Mobile.
  2. Click on Stocktakes.
  3. Click on New Stocktake.
  4. Commence scanning products into the unit.
  5. Once finished scanning a location.
  6. Click on OK to accept.
  7. Stocktake created = click OK.

Manual stocktake within Readysell not using any mobile units

  1. Log onto Readysell.
  2. Select Product Transactions.
  3. Close out of Stock Adjustments.
  4. Click on ‘Stocktakes’ icon top task bar.
  5. Print stocktake work sheet.
  6. Physically start count stock and entering on worksheet.
  7. If it is for an entire store, remember the correct steps.
  8. Firstly “Flag Products as not counted”.
  9. Click on “Insert”   to insert Stocktake.
  10. Make sure you are in Add Mode (take overwrite tick OFF).
  11. Once all entries have been entered into Readysell.
  12. Print all variance reports before applying stocktake option.
  13. Check all negatives and discrepancies which may be on the stock take report.
  14. Do a backup (ring Readysell for backup).
  15. Apply your stock takes.
  16. Insert another stocktake for only for <Add all non counted products as to this stock take as zero on hand> only for entire store stock take, and print the variance report for this stock take.
  17. Check your flags one more time.
  18. Apply that Stocktake.
  19. If applying by Location, steps are different.
  20. Override or add mode depending on if product exists once.
  21. Do not run “add all non counted products to this stock take as zero on hand” for a single stock location as it will set the stock not counted at every other location as zero.
  22. Print Variance Report and make changes if need be.
  23. Check flags once again.
  24. Do a backup.
  25. Apply your stock take.

If Stocktake is by Location (or an adjustment stocktake)

  1. If running by location steps are different.
  2. Flag all products as not counted.
  3. Override or add mode depending on if product exists once.
  4. DO NOT RUN ‘ADD ALL NON COUNTED PRODUCTS TO THIS STOCKTAKE AS ZERO ON HAND” for a single stock location as it will set the stock not counted at every other location as Zero.