Creating a new product

From the Navigation panel click Inventory then Products.

Click on button New.

 Enter Product ID and Name.

Select a product Category

• Description - This field is used to have detailed information about the product.
• Manufacturer - Is the company that has created the Product.  This can, in some cases, be the same as the supplier of the product.
• Image File Name - Location where product images are stored.  (This is not a compulsory field,  however if you load an image into the Status, the moment you hit save on the product, the system will automatically put the image file name into this Image File Name field for you)
• Alternate ID's - This field is where you will Insert all your alternate codes, i.e. Inner and outer bar-codes, supplier codes, alternate product codes, etc. 
• Associated Products -  This is where you will enter promotional products (E.g.: buy one get one free)
• Kit Items -  is an assembling product.  (example: A back to school kit - a pen, a ruler, a lead pencil, an eraser, a pencil case, etc)
  

From the tab 'Suppliers', click on button New

1. Key in the Supplier Product ID for the product

2. Key in the Default Buy Unit

3. Key in the Default Order Unit
4. Select the Supplier card
5. Key in the Minimum Order Qty (Each) - this is in eaches
6. Key in the Buy Ship Unit
7. Tick the Primary Supplier check box if this is the primary (main) supplier for this product that you want staff to be ordering from as a first choice out of a selection of suppliers
8. Archived - this is a check box you can use if the supplier needs to be archived only on this product.

From the tab 'Settings'

1. Select a 'Tax Code Buy'

2. Select 'Default Sell Unit'

3. Volume - This field is used to calculate the weight of the product , for freight purposes. 

4. Select 'Category Type' 

   • Product categories affect Category Type.  Category types are for classifying the products into stock control and non stock control products.  Make sure you get the correct category selected to begin with so that you do not run into problems further into your every day trading.   Stock Control Product means that stock on hand will be affected during trading, Non Stock Control Product means that stock on hand will not get affected by any product movements (sales / writing stock on and off / purchase receipts / etc.)

5. Select a 'Tax Code Sell'