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Marketing Programs Minotaur’s Marketing Programs functionality will assist you in tracking rebate agreements with your customers. Whether taken off invoice or issued as rebate cheques, program costs are easily tracked and can be accrued. These costs can be reflected in your customer/item profitability reporting, so you see a true reflection of your profitability for that customer. Volume incentive programs can also be set up and managed. Rebates can be accrued automatically, based on quantity, weight or dollar sales. based on item or item groupings. Reports indicate which rebates are owed to various customers. The result: reduced time spent trying to calculate and track over and above agreements. Enter as many Marketing Programs as you require for each item and customer, indicating whether rebates should be calculated on a flat rate per item quantity (i.e. $/case) or on a percentage of individual or total merchandise sales. Customers can be assigned to a Rebate Marketing Agreement and individual customers can be given special rebate rates if they are different from the standard rates for this marketing agreement. You will be able to use one rate for all sales or different rates 17 17