How do you sync different items with same inventory?

MCDADECREATIONS — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:02:58 GMT

Hi, my business is mostly custom products. How can I sync a specific inventory item to other items of the same type?

ex: I have two different shirt designs but I use the same shirt inventory for both.

TIA!

Re: How do you sync different items with same inventory?

WirlNet — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:37:39 GMT

I am assuming that you mean that you have "blank shirts" as a "part" and you "build / complete" the final shirt design version part" prior to shipment?

You can think of this as a good example of simple manufacturing - parts, sub assemblies, final product assembly.

In some ways, it isn't so different than the idea of making a sandwich. It takes an inventory of hamburgers, buns, pickles, etc to make the final product. (the sandwich)

Amazingly, as common as this concept is - it usually takes specialized inventory control software to manage it.

AFAIK, neither medium level accounting software like quicken nor square can deal with it correctly.

What I do is make a guess at what will sell and put some of it up as inventory for one "final product / item" and some of it up as another "final product / item".

I deal with the build time by using the delivery time.

It is clunky and I could be wrong but I don't think that square can do more than this.

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