Price Look Up (Number). PLU is the process by which a bar-coded item number is decoded, its price looked up in a database, and the price information sent back to the scanning location. PLU#'s are often found on products in supermarkets for instance.
Price Look-Up - Prices stored in the cash register's memory, allowing for quicker item entry.
Price Look Up. Ordinately, the price information is not shown in the source marked barcodes. The sales price, of the same product, often changes by retails, or by seasons; so it includes only the information of the product itself. The sales prices are enterred to the store controller, and when the product information is in/out-put at POS Register, simultaneously, the information of the rice (of sales) is ooked p from the store controller. PLU is the name for such barcodes (See NON-PLU)
Price Look Up. The process by which a bar coded item number is decoded, its price is looked up in a data base, and the price information is sent back to the scanning source.
Price Look-Up. In a retail POS (Point Of Sale) system, the UPC bar code field is a key field in a price file that when scanned, retrieves a price for the encoded item.
PLU - Price Look-Up (or Price Look-up Unit) code. Used for retail products sold loose, bunched or in bulk (to identify the different types of fruit, say). As opposed to UPC (Universal Product Codes) for packaged, fixed weight retail items. A PLU code contains 4-5 digits in total. The PLU is entered before an item is weighed to determine a price. (Thanks to David McMurray)
Price Look Up. PLU function memorizes prices for items allowing for quicker item entry.
Price Look Up. The process by which a bar coded item number is decoded, its price looked up in a database, and the price information is sent back to the scanning location. The sales prices are entered into the store controller or computer, and when the product information is scanned at the POS Register, the rice information is ooked p from the store computer database. (See NON-PLU)
A PLU (Price LookUp) displays a group of menu items, discount keys, service charge keys, or tender/media keys. When a PLU key is pressed, a touchscreen is generated with all the item prices linked to the same PLU key.
Price Look Up item on a cash register or POS system. PLUs can be tied to preset keys or entered using an assigned number.