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Category
Category is used to create and maintain categories and sub categories. Product Category is used to group and manage similar inventory items. Users can analyse high selling items by category.

 For example :

Category and Sub Categories are required for product creation.If users do not prefer categorizing items, users can use the default (DEF) category on the system.

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  1. Inventory Category Listing
  2. Inventory Sub - Category Listing

Steps to create categories:

  1. Click on the "Green Plus Sign". This will open the "Edit Form".
  2. Enter below details for the category:
    1. Code - Enter a code which can be a set of alphanumeric values to uniquely identify each category.
    2. Description - Enter the detailed description of the category.
    3. Notes  - This is an open text field, users can enter desired content.
    4. Default - Tick the "Check Box", to mark it as default. Users can mark a category as default whereby if a user creates an inventory and does not select the category, the item will be created with the default category.
    5. Void - Void records will be "Disabled" and will not appear in any lookups . Edit the record and "UN-tick" void to activate a record.
    6. Save. Click on the "Floppy Icon".
  3. Click on the "Grey Arrow" to expand into the details:
    1. Click on the "Green Plus Sign". This will open the "Edit Form".
    2. Enter below details for the sub-category:
      1. Code - Enter a code which can be a set of alphanumeric values to uniquely identify each sub-category.
      2. Description - Enter the detailed description of the sub-category
      3. Notes  - This is an open text field, users can enter desired content.
      4. Default - Tick the "Check Box", to mark it as default. Users can mark a sub-category as default whereby if a user creates an inventory and does not select the sub-category, the item will be created with the default sub-category.
      5. Void - Void records will be "Disabled" and will not appear in any lookups . Edit the record and "UN-tick" void to activate a record.
      6. Save. Click on the "Floppy Icon".

Figure 1: Category