While adding your desired order quantities, you can add your store’s POS category codes as well. For example, if you want a book to be shelved in your Fiction section, input the code you use for “Fiction” in your Point-of-Sale system. To do so, click Add categories:

For your store, it may be a numeric code, for others, an abbreviation, or even the full word. These are the codes you use every day in your store. By adding a category code to a title while ordering, you’re simplifying the process of importing this order into your POS system.

Note that you can add different categories for different store locations, too:

If you’ve mapped your categories or are an Edelweiss Analytics subscriber, your category list will auto-fill here as you start typing a category name or code.

Secondary Categories can be added as shown below:

Note, an Edelweiss Administrator at your store can turn the secondary category function on or off:

While a category code can be added while viewing/buying a title in a catalog or collection, you can also edit title information just before exporting an order.

To do this, open your Orders page, find the order, and click into the Export Preview screen:

In the Export Preview screen, click the pencil icon to edit the title, category, and other bibliographic data for a title that you’d like imported into your POS system.

The edit screen will look like the example shown below, with various editable elements available depending on the specifics of your POS system. Note that if your POS system allows for such things, you can add a secondary category here as well.

You can also “map” your categories, or in other words, program Edelweiss to add specific categories (and other data elements) according to the information provided by the publisher. For example, you can tell Edelweiss to add your Mystery category code to all titles that publishers designate with a BISAC code of Fiction: Mystery. Publishers use many different codes, so mapping can take a bit of time, but it saves you lots of time in not having to manually enter such things in the long run. Find complete instructions on category mapping here.