We’re not just software folks – we run vendor malls, too, so we know how they seem to attract the wonderful, the weird, and the unlikely (that’s the antiquing version of the Sergio Leone film, obviously). Rent changes, discounts are given, sometimes it’s customers doing the selling – nothing is ever quite like you expect when you’re running a store.

To help deal with some of those one-off changes we’re introducing a new feature to Quail, which we’re calling Adjustments. Adjustments are one-time, well, adjustments to a vendor’s payout. You can use them to give credit for time spent clerking, to “zero out” the rent for a booth that closes mid-month, to give a vendor credit for an item broken by staff – any time you need to adjust a booth’s payout just this once. You can see the currently active adjustments for a booth by opening its booth report:

Adjustments will also show up in your printed booth reports, and your vendors will see it in their vendor portal:

One thing adjustment’s aren’t – they’re not transactions, so they won’t affect your register report and they won’t show up in your daily lists of sales. We think of ‘em like a Swiss army knife for fixing up those weird little one-offs and mis takes that crop up when you’re trying to write your end-of-month checks. They’ve already been useful for us in zeroing out rent for closing booths and paying vendor for time spent clerking. We think you’ll find ‘em pretty useful, too – let us know if you do!