Creating a Product

Products are retail items that can be sold through the Point of Sale. Products may also be tracked as inventory if you want Pointa to manage stock quantities.

Go to Products & Services > Items > New Item > Product

Complete the product details.

Key fields include:

• Name
  The product name shown in Pointa and at checkout.

• Category
  Required. Used for organisation and reporting.

• Brand
  Optional, but useful for retail reporting and stock management.

• Gender
  Optional. Used where relevant for categorising products.

• Available for sale
  Controls whether the product can currently be sold.

• Allow staff commission
  Determines whether sales of this product are included in staff commission reporting.

• Allow customer rewards
  Determines whether sales of this product are eligible for customer rewards, if rewards are enabled.

• Barcode
  Optional. If a barcode is entered, the product can be added to the POS by scanning the barcode.

• Purchase price
  The cost price of the product, including tax.

• Sale price
  The retail price charged to the customer.

• Track inventory for this product
  Turn this on if you want Pointa to track stock on hand for this item.

• Minimum and maximum stock levels
  Used to help manage ideal stock levels.

• Deplete alternate item inventory
  Used where selling one item should reduce the stock quantity of another item. This may be useful for products sold in different sizes or configurations.

Select Save when finished.

Turning on inventory tracking does not automatically add stock. Stock can be added through Receive Stock, a Stock Adjustment, or a Stocktake.

Learn more on Stock Management here.