Processing and accepting food stamps involves 2 steps - identifying an item as "Foodstampable" and accepting food stamps as a form of payment.

 

To identify an item as Foodstampable simply check the Foodstampable checkbox for the item in its Inventory Maintenance record.  Select Options, then green box 5 (Administrative), then blue box A (Inventory Maintenance).

 

When a Foodstampable item is added to the invoice screen it is identified as such by "-FS" appended to the line number.  Then when the invoice is about to be paid for 3 new boxes appear on the payment screen: a Food Stamp payment button, as well as fields "Maximum Allowed in Food Stamps" and "Remaining Amount". 

 

For example if an invoice has 10 items and totals $48.50 and only one of the items is Foodstampable with a price of $11.50 then both the Maximum Allowed in Food Stamps and Remaining Amount will display $11.50.  Then when foodstamps are presented for payment the Remaining Amount will decrease to indicate how much of the Amount Remaining is eligible for food stamp payment.  If the amount of food stamps rung up exceeds the Remaining Amount this message will be displayed:    

"The maximum amount of foodstamps has already been used.  Choose a different tender type."