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Supermarkets & Fresh Food (sell by weight)

Sell fish, meat, vegetables and loose items by weight. Scan the label printed by your weighing scale — the POS reads the item and the weight from the barcode.

Sell in kgScale barcodesUp to 3 decimals

✨What you can do

Sell fish, meat, vegetables and loose items by weight. Scan the label printed by your weighing scale — the POS reads the item and the weight from the barcode.

Weighed itemsSet the unit to kg and quantities can have up to 3 decimals.
Scale barcodesTell Ledgo your scale's prefix (e.g. 20–22) and code length.

Your daily routine in 5 steps

  1. Item codeon product
  2. Scale prints labelcode + weight
  3. Scan at POSauto quantity
  4. Pay

This guide is for these business types

SupermarketGrocery StoreFish / Meat ShopFruits & Vegetables ShopBakeryAgricultural Supplies Store

🧭Where to click

Business Console
Overview
Sales
Purchases
Finance
People
Business
Settings
Sell by weight
Weighing scale

Find your section

After you sign in, look at the left menu. Below the common groups you will see a section for your business: Sell by weight. Everything in this guide starts from the items inside it.

The common groups (Sales, Purchases, Finance, People, Business, Settings) are the same for every business and are explained in Getting started.

🚀Day-1 setup

Do these once, in this order, before your first day of work.

Set up the scale
  1. Open Sell by weight → Weighing scale. Enter the Barcode prefixes (e.g. 20,21,22), Item code digits, what The label contains (weight or price) and Decimals in the value. Save.
  2. On each weighed product set the Scale code printed by your scale.
Careful: Prefix and item code must leave at least 3 digits for the value.

🛠️Everyday tasks

Click a heading to open or close it. Steps are numbered in the order you press.

Sell a weighed item
  1. On the POS, scan the scale label. The item and weight are filled in. Or type the weight by hand.

⚙️What the system does for you

  • Stock is reduced by the exact weight sold.

📈Reports & numbers

Report / numberWhat it tells you
SalesAs usual in Analytics

Also open Analytics for sales, expenses and profit charts.

❓Common questions

My scale prints price, not weight.

Choose the price option in Weighing scale settings.

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Help & troubleshooting