Working with Care Plans at POS

We recommend that your associates introduce the care plan during the sales process, when showing the piece and talking about the benefits and pricing before getting to point of sale.  That way it’s not sold as an add-on or interpreted as an upsell.  There is an option in the Categories Tags tab to add the care plan price or price plus item retail to item tags.

 

To work with product care programs at POS:

 

1.  When making a sale at POS, after you have entered the associate, found the customer, scanned the item, you’ll see that each sale line contains an option to add the care program.

2.  If your license allows more than one kind of plan, use the drop-down menu to see care plan available.  If not, the default will show.

 

a.  Multiple Plans Available

 

 

b.  Single Plan Available

 

 

3.  Explain the care program to your customer and ask if they would like to purchase it; you can refer to the drop-down menu to offer various programs and prices.

4.  When the customer agrees, select the appropriate plan and the Include Care Plan checkbox.

5.  The care plan price will appear in the sale line below the final item price.  Change it if desired.

 

 

      If you’re selling more than one of the same quantity, but the customer only wants protection on one or some of them, sell the items in separate sale lines and indicate the care plan in only the desired sale line.

      If the customer wants to add the plan after the sale is complete, return the item and resell it with the plan.

 

6.  The transaction total will include the fee and, if applicable, sales tax on it.  Talk with your accountant and see the section entitled Setup Tax Definitions if your tax jurisdiction requires tax on such fees.

7.  Complete the sale as usual. 

8.  Depending on your System Options, if you select Done without checking the Include Care Plan checkbox, you will be prompted to confirm that you talked with the customer about it.

 

 

9.  Select Yes or No and discuss the plan with the customer.

10. Continue with the sale.

11. When you select Done, if the customer does not have an address, phone number, and email address on record, you will be prompted to provide this information:

 

 

a.  Select OK to see the Select a Phone Number, Email and Address that you want for the warranty window.

 

b.  Select + Address, + Phone, or +Email as requested and enter the desired information.

 

 

c.   Select OK

d.  Select Done again to complete the sale. 

 

12. The receipt will show the plan.

 

 

13. Some care plan providers offer an email or printable version of the term.  To view and print the care plan terms, select Care Plan from the receipt window.  If the receipt is to be emailed, the terms will go out with the email.  You can also go to the shared folder (e.g., C:\ProgramData\AJSLLC\edge\CarePlanTerms) and print them out ahead of time.

 

 

 

 

      Your sales data should be reported to your care plan provider on a daily basis using the process described in the section entitled Uploading Transactions and you will be billed accordingly.  Be sure this data matches that in the Care Plan Report.

      There is no sales tax shown on the sale line in POS, but it will be added to the total and on the receipt.