Create And Add Products
Introduction
Products are what you sell to make revenue. It is important that you define them correctly for ease of use at the Web Register and in the back office. Ensure that you properly set up their pricing, inventory settings like minimum stock, reorder quantity, etc. for accurate reporting and smoother operations.
Tagrain allows you to define and manage products easily. Products in Tagrain can be created in two ways. You can either import the products through a spreadsheet OR you can create them one by one. Click here to know more about how to import products using spreadsheets.
Not only this, Tagrain allows you to define different types of products – standard, serial, batch, composite, variant products.
This section details the steps required to create a standard item in Tagrain.
Go to Inventory > Product to open the Product list View. All the existing products are listed here.
The list view clearly denotes the products that have variants.
You can edit individual variants by clicking the edit icon next to every variant product.
Click on Add Product to launch the Create Product screen.
Enter the description of the Product. The code of the product is generated automatically based on the numbering series defined in the General Settings. You have the option of mentioning your own Product Code or let the application generate the product code for you.
Specify the Product Group to which this product belongs and mention the UPC code. The UPC code is used to facilitate bar code scanning of the product.
If this product already has a barcode printed on it, you should mention that number in this field. Alternatively, if you plan to print your own barcode labels, this UPC code will be used to print the labels.
Go on to specify the Product Type. Tagrain allows you to define the following types of products:
Tax code needs to be specified only if the product attracts a different tax percentage as compared to the tax that is setup for the store. The Tax applicable at the store is automatically attached to your stores and is based on the country where your business is located.
Specifying the Manufacturer and Long Description is recommended, for better inventory management.
Base Price is the selling price of the Product. You have the option to specify store specific pricing in the Inventory submenu in this screen and is explained in the sections below.
There are more sections where additional product information is captured. These sections may vary depending upon the product selection.
Advance Setting | Inventory | Product Images are the sections that appear when Standard, Serial and Batch products are selected from the drop-down menu.
Item Details | Product Variants are sections that appear in addition to the above sections, when Composite and Variant products are selected from the drop-down menu.
Advance Setting
In this section additional properties of the Product can be captured to specify whether the product is a non-stock product, fractional quantities are allowed or not, is a weighed or not, can the product be refunded or not and whether the taxes are included in the price or not.
Inventory
This is one of the most important sections of Product definition.
Selling Price
This is where you get to define store specific pricing for this product. Same product – different selling price for different stores.
Opening Stock Quantity
In addition to that, you also define the Opening Stock Quantity of this product across all the stores. The application allows you to enter this value only once at the time of setting up your stores.
Reorder Quantity / Level
One of the advantages of an online retail application is its ability to warn you when the stock levels of your products go below a certain level. Reorder Quantity / Level lets you specify the stock level of the product at which you should replenish the product in a particular store. The Reorder Quantity / Level can be set individually for all the stores.
Maximum Stock Level
Is the optimal stock quantity of the product in a given store.
Product Image
The Product Images screen will allow you to attach an image to the Product for easy identification. One can simply click on the “Choose Product Image” box and navigate to the folder where the image is kept. You can also drag and drop your image inside the “Choose Product Image” box. A sample filled in Product Images screen is pasted here.
Tip: The application allows you to attach the Product’s image for easy identification.
Once you have filled in the required fields, you may click on the “Save “ button to save the Product record. The newly created Product will then appear on the Product list screen. In our example we created a Product record by the name of “Smart Facial Cleansing Device”.
Tip: Tagrain not only allows you to edit or delete a product record, but also copy a product record.
Click on the symbol to copy Product records which can be used as a template to create other product records. This feature is useful specially for admins who come across creating large numbers of product records quite often.
Click on the symbol to bring up the “Update Product” page, wherein you can update product code | product group | UPC code etc.
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