Overview
You can manage multiple stores from one account in CStore Essentials using the Central Price Book tool. The Central Price Book or CPB lets the owner add/update prices, create new modifiers and build new promotions from a central account. The central account is linked to the local stores of the multi-store owner.
From the Central Price Book you can make changes which can be sent to one store or all the stores connected to the CPB. These changes can be viewed in the local stores, but a local store account can not make changes to the CPB that is connected to it.
How to connect the Central Price Book to local Stores?
After the CPB has been created, we need to map the CPB store to the local stores. This is done to make sure the promotions created and item changes made in CPB go to the appropriate department in local stores.
To map the departments
Log into your CStore Essentials account.
Click on Central Pricebook and click on Settings.
Click on the Mapping tab.
To map the Departments for a local store, click on the pencil icon next to the store name.
On the Update register key screen, map the CPB department to local Store departments. Make sure you check the second page option on the bottom to be sure there are no department left.
Once all the department are mapped click on Map.
Note: Department listed on the left are CPB dept., we map it to the dept. listed on the right the local store dept.
To map the Tax
Log into your CStore Essentials account.
Click on Central Pricebook and click on Settings.
Click on Mapping tab.
To map the Tax Id click on the pencil icon.
On the Map tax group screen, map the Local tax group to CPB tax group.
Once all the tax groups are mapped click on Map.
Note: Taxes listed on the left are local store Tax group, we map it to the taxes listed on the right CPB tax group.