Products
Products are anything a company sells—whether physical items, digital products, or services. In retail, you'll often hear products called consumer goods or merchandise. Retailers choose their merchandise based on market demand and what their customers want, from everyday essentials to luxury items.
Manufacturers use the term "product" for both the raw materials they buy for production and the finished goods they sell. These two sides of commerce take different approaches to product development and marketing to succeed. We have plans to add manufacturing related features but at the moment SMA might not have much for manufacturing use. Please try the live demo to check if the feature you need already added in the Stock Manager Advance.
General
Stock Manage Advance has option to manage 5 types of products
- Standard - stock trackable
- Service - no stock tacking
- Digital - optional stock tacking with
- Combo - combination of other products
- Recipe - combination of standard products
Variants/Attributes
Standard products can have variants like Color, Size etc. If the product has variants then system will track quantity for each variations and you need to select them when adding product to order list.
Serials
Standard products can have serial numbers. If the product has serials then system will track them and auto set the first available serial on order. This feature is not fully developed yet so if you find any issue or have suggestion, please so reach us by asking question or requesting feature at support portal
SEO
Product hsa SEO section where you can set title, description, keywords, noindex, nofollow options.
List Products (listing page)
List products table is sortable by column headings (default sorting is latest records first). Each row has actions column to tracking (stock movement), edit and delete record. If you have selected the store then the quantity column will show the available stock in the selected store. If the store is not selected then the sum of quantity will be displayed.
Low Stock Products
To view the low stock products, please click the application alerts (bell icon) in the top bar.
Product form (add/edit)
Product form has divided in few section. First section has input field for type, name, code, brand, category and details etc. The second section has the options for features, variants and serials. The last section has search engine optimization input fields like title, meta description and keywords etc.
Import Products (listing page)
You can import products with excel. The import products page has the details for excel file columns and required data. We will add the option for template in future. For now, you can add a product manually then export the products to get the excel file.
Adjustments
This feature helps to manage the damage and other issues with your stock. The adjustments are used to correct the quantity/stock for the products.
Transfers
If you have multiple stores, you might need to transfer/move products from one store to another. This module will help to manage these tasks. You can add transfer to record the transfer details.
Stock Count
The stock count is the physical verification of the quantities and condition of items held in an inventory or store. Stock count may be performed as an intensive annual end of year procedure or may be done continuously by means of a cycle count. An annual end of year stock count is typically done for use in a company's financial statements.
Once count has been completed, you can add adjustment to update your current stock.
Brands & Categories
The brands and categories are used to group the products. Organizing your online store by product type helps customers find what they need faster, makes your promotions more compelling, and drives sales.
Units
You can add product measuring units and then select the base unit while adding/editing the products. This feature will help you to manage the quantity well, while purchasing and selling in different units.
For example, you purchase coke as a box of 12 bottles and you sell them as bottle. You can add base unit of box/bottle and then add other with conversion. Add the products and select new base unit. You even can select the default purchase and sale units on add/edit product page.
Labels (Barcode Printing)
Product labels has few pre-built templates with custom option. The custom option can be used for any width and height. It has a switch to add page break after each label (continuous feed) for single column label printers.
You can select products and choose any page template and print with any desktop printer. The page has option to show/hide product details like name, code, price, photo and to show barcode or qrcode.
Promotions
Promotions are marketing communications designed to inform, persuade, and remind target audiences about a product, service, or brand, with the goal of creating awareness, driving sales, or fostering customer loyalty.
Stock Manager Advance has 4 types of promotion
- Simple - Flat discount
- Advance - Quantity based discount
- Buy X Get X (BXGX) - Buy product X to get X/Y/Z product free
- Spent X Amount to Get Discount (SXGD) - Spent X amount to get X% discount
All the discount can be set for selected products and categories for any period of time.