Acme handles the sale of $0 items in a very specific manner. This is designed to safeguard retailers from accidental giveaways.

 

Items can marked with Item Control of "Giveaway". These items will be added to transactions for $0.

 

$0 priced consigned inventory can be sold without granting the "Allow Sell $0 Item" privilege to the user.

 

There is a user privilege called Prevent Entry of 0.00 Prices On Line Items (Yes/No). If set to yes, the users cannot change an item's price to $0 during transaction entry.

 

There are also one Global Setting and one other User Privilege that are related...

 

 Global Setting: “Block $0 Priced Items"

 User Privilege: “Allow Sell $0 Item”

Here are examples of how these settings affect and Administrator and a Clerk user...

As Admin or Store Manager… (user has at least one of the following two privileges:  Administrator or Store Manager

 Setting yes, privilege granted, can sell 0.

 Setting yes, privilege NOT granted, cannot sell 0.

 

 Setting no, privilege granted, can sell 0.

 Setting no, privilege NOT granted, CAN sell 0. *
 

As Clerk… (user does not have the Store Manager or administrator privilege)

 Setting yes, privilege granted, can sell 0.

 Setting yes, privilege NOT granted, cannot sell 0.

 

 Setting no, privilege granted, can sell 0.

 Setting no, privilege NOT granted, CAN sell 0. *