How do I create sales or promotions in Paradigm?

There is a menu item under Inventory called ‘Promotions’ that is used for creating sales for multiple items at once. After creating a new promotion, specify the begin and end date for that sale, as well as the warehouse for which you want the sale to apply (Leaving the warehouse blank will apply the sale to all warehouses). Optionally, you can specify an editing deadline as well. Changes will still be permitted after this date, but warnings will appear so that accidental edits will be prevented.

Items can then be added to the promotion individually, or entire categories/subcategories can be entered at once by using the ‘Bulk Add’ section at the top of the form. After adding the items to be put on sale, enter either a discount percent or the exact special price for each item to set the special price.

There are several useful features to note about this form:

1. If the begin/end date or warehouse is different on an item than it is on the header, it will show up in red text.

2. The dropdown for Warehouse will show the units in stock for each warehouse.

3. You can change multiple lines at one time by selecting the section of items to update via the record selectors (the gray box to the far left of the item) and pressing a shortcut key that corresponds to what you want to change. For example, pressing ‘D’ will allow you to change the Discount Percent for all of those lines. A full list of shortcut keys can be found by clicking the ‘Help’ button at the top of the form.

4. The information in the promotion can also be found in the inventory item’s special pricing tab, from which you can edit the information or open the promotion. See Inventory Special Pricing.