If you are adding additional sections of your store, this is the part of the program that you will use.  Once you are on the Implementation Tab, you need to start by settting the department of the items you will be implementing.  If you do not see the department that you are looking for, it needs to be setup on the back end of the program.  You can read about that here:  How do we create departments? 

Once you have picked your department that you will be working in, you can move on to setting your location.  While most Grocery Aisles are numbers and this is what you will use when setting up that department, you can have other text for your Aisles as well.  The most common are Letters like D for the Dairy Department and M for the Processed Meat Department.  You can do whatever makes the most sense for your stores, but we just recommend being consistent.

Now that you have your Aisle set, you can input your section.  Usually this is some kind of numbering scheme that goes L01, L02, L03 for each respective section on the left side of the aisle and R01, R02, and R03 for each four-foot section on the right (and so on until the end of the aisle).  You can see a graphic of what this looks like by visiting: How do we decide on item locations? 

You will also see an input field for Shelf next to it.  This is not a required field and is an optional piece of information that you can add to the program.  It does create an additional step while you are doing the implementation, but can save time later on when you are date checking. 

Once you have the Department, Aisle, and Section entered into the program, you can start entering items.  You do this by typing the date FIRST on the keypad and then entering the UPC.  We recommend using Bluetooth Barcode Scanners to automatically scan those UPC numbers into the iPad.  The barcode scanner will also automatically hit the enter button to submit that product.  Once a product is submitted, you can go type the date for the next product you would like to enter.

Two scenarios that you will run into while doing an implementation of Date Check Pro are when an item is out of stock, or when there were expired items on the shelf.  Sometimes these will also be combined where the reason that an item is out of stock is because everything was pulled as expired.  Like entering a date above, all of the information is added before scanning the barcode to enter the UPC and submit the product.  If there is expired inventory, hit the toggle as shown below and type in the number.

If an item is out of stock, you simply select the Out of Stock toggle and then enter the UPC.  Because there is no product on the shelf, this may require you to hand type the UPC off of the shelf tag.  The program will accept 11 or 12 digits for standard barcodes (0-12345-67890-1, the last 1 would be optional, but you need the leading 0).  The keypad will go gray when you hit this toggle because there is no date to be entered for out of stock items.

If you have any questions about using the implementation tab, we highly recommend getting in touch with us by calling 262-458-2470 ext 2 or emailing [email protected] so we can walk you through the process and make sure you have everything setup properly in the program.