Note: The Track on On Order feature must be enabled for the Pre-Sale Allocation feature to work. Please get in touch with help@vinosmith.com for how to enable the On Order feature.
Pre-Sale Allocations are created against a wine's On Order inventory. These Allocations are not "live" and are not treated as normal Allocations - they cannot be ordered against. The Pre-Sale Allocations will deduct from the On Order quantity and not take On Hand/Available value negative.
Pre-Sale Allocations are created the same as a regular Allocation. All Allocations start at a Wine or an Account. From there, you can select a Pre-Sale or Live Allocation. On Order, On Pre-Sale, and Available to Pre-Sell is in a separate inventory box on that page for your reference.
An admin-level user must activate the Pre-Sale allocations after receiving the On Order inventory into the On Hand inventory bucket. This activation of the Pre-Sale allocations will convert them directly to "live" Allocations/On Hold. Please note this action is manual and required for the Pre-Sale Allocations to be converted.
To Activate the Pre-Sale Allocations
- Navigate to the Accounts tab
- On the left-hand side, click View under the Allocation
- Select the Pre-Sales tab. On this page, you will be offered checkboxes next to all Pre-Sales.
- Select the Allocations to Activate and click the blue Activate Selected Allocations button at the bottom of the page.
Pre-Sale allocations can be imported via Batch. Please see the Knowledge Base article referenced at the bottom of this page regarding how to batch upload allocations.