For recording business activities, there are many useful features and functions in StockControl, But where to start if this is your first time use of StockControl?
Actually You can start from any one feature you like, for example, customers and vendors information or warehouse management. In this tutorial, the operation is started from recording products in this system.
Recording Products is the core of any business operations, if there is no products in the system, then you can not create sales orders, purchase orders etc in StockControl.
Products in the StockControl can be classified as Simple Products, and Composite Products by one standard. The simple products is the ones you sell them directly without manufacturing or assembling after purchased. Contrary to simple products, Composite Products require you manufacture or assemble with parts purchased.
Let’s see how to create a product in stockcontrol:
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![](https://www.mxsku.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bomlist.png)
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The above is the item properties tab of item creating window. It’s easy to understand, and I introduce it briefly for you:
- The Item Code field is for product’s sku code, you can manually type or use a barcode scanner to operate.
- Item Name is the short description of the product you are recording.
- Choose a category for better organization.
- If the product is composite, please check Has Composite Items, then you can Click Composite Items Button to add component parts for the composite product (you must first record the components in the system first, components are also products, but simple).
- If you want to track the inventory movement of the product, then check Track Inventory. If the product is a service without inventory tracking, UNCHECK this option is necessary. If the product is not for sales, for example some component parts, you do not sell them to customers partially, so You’d better UNCHECK this item is for sales, then it will not show on creating sales order window.
- Purchase Price is used to calculate the Costs of Goods.
- Sales Price is the price you sell the products to customers.
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The above is the item stock information of item creating window. you can easily understand what it means and how it works. a concise description is better for understanding:
- The table on the top displays the product quantity in the warehouse of left column. If you have multiple warehouses and locations, they are displayed here, you should manually enter the opening quantities available in every warehouse.
- If you enter quantities of low stock warning and high stock warning in the Stock Level group, the system will display a warning color once the product’s quantity is not in the safe range.
- You can add an image for the product item.
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You can see the warning color on the product list window once the available is not safe, the color will change to danger red if the available qty is far from safe range. You can also print the products label by selecting multiple items, then click the Barcode Icon in the Toolbar. here is an example:
![](https://www.mxsku.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/barcode-1024x685.png)
If you want to watch the operation in video for this tutorial, please visit this Youtube Video.