How to add items

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The very 1st step of using an inventory software is adding your products

1. Sign in to IMS
2. Go to Items tab
3. Click the plus button
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5. Once you press the Plus button, you will see an Item Editor window as below 
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7. Fill all the fields and click the save button
8. If you missed any mandatory fields, it will be highlighted in red color. You cannot leave such fields empty

Sub Items Section

There is a Sub Items Section. This is useful when you need to sell multiple items as single product or combo. 1 example is garment industry. You can add Cloth [in length], Buttons, zipper, Packing box etc. as sub items and sell as a Single product Shirt or Pants. When you add such items to invoice, it'll subtract respective quantity from the main item. Let's say you added 1.5 meter cloth to an item shirt, once you add it to invoice, IMS will subtract 1.5 meter quantity from the main item cloth. Similarly IMS will calculate the quantity of shirt from the quantity of the sub items.

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Property Definition

1. Code: Should be unique which is used to identify each product. Will be used as Barcode in future. Check  Auto Generate Product Code for more details

2. Type: Goods or Service

3. Name, Description: Name and a small description of product. Mainly useful to search and add product in invoice/purchase/stock

4. Price: Price before tax.

5. Minimum Stock: Used to alert you when the stock goes below this value.

6. HSN Code: Tax Code. You can either type directly [if you know] or you can click the search button and find a matching one

7. Category: This is an extra field to group your product under specific category

8. Unit: Product Unit such as KG, grm, pcs etc

9. TAX:  GST type [from 0-28% is available]

10. Visibility: This field helps you to hide product from specific module. By default product will be visible in Invoice, Purchase and Stock. You can untick to hide it from there.
    eg:- Let use take an example of a garment industry, they need to buy cloth but they will sell as shirt as a combo. So they don't need to show cloth in invoice. Similarly, the Pants Combo won't need to show in purchase because they don't buy it they manufacture it