Adding Products #

1. Go to – Products > Add Products.
   • Provide a Product Name,
     Brand,
     Units,
     Category
     Sub-category
     SKU: Add a unique SKU which will be used to identify the product & Print barcode in labels. Leave it empty to auto-generate it. You can also add a Prefix for auto-generated SKU.
   • Steps to change the default SKU length:In order to change the default SKU length, make the following simple change in the code. 
   • 1. Open the file pos\app\Product. 
   • 2. Search for the function ‘generate Product Sku’. 
   • 3. Change the default value 4 to any required length.
     Barcode Type: Select a barcode type, default/recommended is C128 option. We recommend changing if only if the product added already have an SKU number for it.
     Not For Selling: If a product is marked not-for-selling then it will not be displayed in POS or sales screen. This can be useful when using manufacturing module to make the ingredients as product not-for-selling also if you want to temporary disable selling for some products.
     Alert Quantity: Alert quantity is used to alert when remaining stocks reaches to this level or below it.
     Manage stock: Enable/Disable stock management at a product level. Product stock management is not required for services like Repairing, Hair Cutting, Web Development Printing. For items with Manage Stock Unchecked (disabled), you can sell them in unlimited quantities.  
2. Business Location: Select the business location(s) where this product can sold or purchased.
3. Select Applicable tax for that product. 
4. Product Type:

Single Product: #

1. Applicable for products with no variation with them then select single
2. When selecting Single product – You will need to enter the Default product price including/excluding tax, Profit Margin % (you can set default profit margin from settings -> Business Settings; this will help to type % every time). Based on the profit margin it will auto calculate selling price excluding of Tax. You can also enter the selling price manually and it will auto adjust the profit margin for you.

Variable Product: #

1. Applicable to a product having variations (like size or color or design or flavors etc) You can define variation templates from Products -> Variations. The advantage of creating variation is that it saves time to add same variations multiple time.
2. When selecting Variable product – It will display different fields to add all variations and its related Purchase price, Selling Price. You have to select the variations from the dropdown and it will auto-populate the variations for that template. You can change the variable name, Variation values.

Adding Products with multiple variations: #

If you have products which involve multiple variations like for example a Shirt can have Color & Size variation, then we have multiple ways to work with it:

Solution 1, Create combined variation: Can a variation with a name “Color-Size” and add values like Red-Small, Red-Medium, Red-Large, etc, this can be used for while adding the Shirt.

Solution 2, Create multiple Products: Create multiple different products like Shirt-Red, Shirt-Green, Shirt-Blue with size as variations. When you create multiple products you will NOT have to enter the same details multiple times, first, add the Shirt-Red with all size variations of it and then use the Duplicate Product action to copy the data.

Select Required variations: #

While adding variable products, you can select only the required variation values.

In your add/edit product screen, select the product type as ‘variation’ and select the variation name (eg. color).

A dropdown will be displayed, in which you can select the required variation values.

Using Product barcode: #

Question: 

How can we use the product’s barcode instead of creating and printing new for every product?
How can we use the brand’s barcode of the product instead of creating and printing new for every product?

Answer:

When creating a product, in the SKU field enter the barcode number of the product. This barcode will be used to identify the product in all screens like POS, Sales, purchases, reports, and others.

How to add a product that already has a Barcode? #

Adding products that already have a barcode, follow the same steps as adding any other products.

1. Go to add products
2. Fill in all the product details
3. IMPORTANT: in the SKU field scan or enter the barcode of the product.

Adding product quantity or adding product stock #

For systematically managing your business, product quantities can be added in 3 ways:

1. Adding Opening stock
2. Adding purchases
3. Manufacturing product: Useful for manufacturers, required manufacturing module.