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New article

Your articles are one of the centrepieces of your ERP system. If you have all entries well maintained here, you will save yourself a lot of time in your day-to-day business. This article shows you how to create a new item and enter the most important information. To create a new wine in the program, either go to ‘’‘Article - article list’‘’ and click on the - symbol. Otherwise, you can also access the screen in which new articles can be created via the menu item ‘’‘Article - New article’‘’.

Input mask for new articles

There are a total of 13 information areas for each article. The information to be entered is used to record your articles in the program, which you can edit again at any time.

Basic data

article number: A new article number is automatically suggested by the program, but you can also enter your own number. An article number can only be used once. New fillings must also be created as separate and new articles, as they receive their own AP number and you can therefore prove what happens to these bottles. Your customer, on the other hand, is less interested in which filling of the wine they have received. On the contrary, this can even lead to confusion, questions and therefore more work. This is why we have integrated the option that 2 articles can look exactly the same to the customer, but can be perfectly separated internally for you. This task is performed by a "+". Example: ‘’Item no. 14‘’ is filled twice. Filling 1 would therefore be ‘’article no. 14+1‘’, filling 2 would be ‘’no. 14+2‘’. Internally, everything is now deducted clearly from the correct wine / warehouse, but externally the customer only ever sees ‘’article no. 14‘’ on receipts.

You can also use this system for a constant assignment of article numbers in order to better differentiate between vintages (e.g. 10+2020 | 10+2021). In the statistics, the different fillings are still treated as individual articles and can be analysed individually.

Enter the basic data for your wine here: vintage, state, kind, quality level and flavour.

classification

Lot | AP-No.: Enter the lot/AP no. of your wine here if the new item is a wine.

(Cellar)Wine number: Enter the number of your wine here, if the new article is a wine.

Predessesor wine: The item "Previous wine" has a special meaning. Let's assume you create a new article B. The predecessor item is item A. A customer now has an order with a special price for the out-of-stock item A and now orders item B. Winestro.cloud now suggests the special price of item A, provided you have not yet assigned a new special price or list price for item B and this customer. This way you can easily memorise special conditions. You will be informed about this process with a small note when you add the item to an order.

This point should not be misunderstood as: ‘Copy all information from an old item to this new one’. To do this, use the ‘Copy article’ function in the article view (where you also assign the prices) of the article to be copied.

article group: Select an article group here that you would like to assign to your new article/wine. You can find out how to create article groups and what purpose they fulfil in the wiki article Article group.

Sales category: Select a suitable category for your product here and assign it to the product.

Preferred warehouse: Set the preferred warehouse from which this item should be drawn when entering an order. This warehouse setting overwrites the standard warehouse from the System settings.

origin

Country: Here you can enter the country of production of the product.

Region: Here you can enter the region of production of the product.

cultivation area: Here you can enter the growing region where the product is grown.

purchase

Shop-producer:

Product type: The ‘Product type’ option only suggests ‘Self-produced’ in the default setting. If you sell products that you have not produced yourself, you can create a new Customer beforehand and tick the ‘Producer’ box when creating it. From now on, this producer will be available for selection as a producer in the drop-down menu.

Supplier: If you sell products that you obtain from a specific supplier, you can create a new Customer beforehand and tick the ‘Supplier’ box when creating it. This supplier will then be available for selection as a producer in the drop-down menu.

Purchase price(s): If it is an additional purchase, you can enter the corresponding purchase price here.

Order number: Enter the order number here if you have purchased the product.

other

Inventory obligation?‘’': Here you enter ‘yes’ or ‘no’, depending on whether an inventory obligation exists for this item.

Internal article name: Here you can still assign an internal name, which you can then use to search for the item.

Internal note: Here is space for an internal note for this item, which can then also be viewed in the overview of the item index.

In shops until: Set the date here until when the item should be active in your webshop.

This item is an assortment: If you tick the box here, you will convert the item index card a little and thus have the option of maintaining an item assortment in it (e.g. spring package), to which you can then assign individual items.

Stock overbooking: This field must first be activated under System - Settings - Invoice for it to be displayed here.

Here you can specify whether or not the stock of your items may be negative. If you set ‘Prevent total overbooking of articles’ here, the new field ‘Stock overbooking’ will appear under ‘Other’ when you create an article. This means that you specify that your stock may not be overbooked, but that it is permitted for certain items.

Here you can then choose between ‘No’, ‘Free stock can be overbooked’ and ‘Stock can be overbooked’.

This setting is useful, for example, for items that have no ‘real’ stock, such as shipping costs or similar.

packaging&weight

packing: Here you can set the type of packaging in which the corresponding item is packed or the unit in which it is calculated. You have the option of adding further packaging types to the list under Item group packaging.

filling quantity in l:You need the litre specification if the article is to be offered for sale at Winestro or in your Privatshop.

weight in kg: Entering the weight will help you to create accurate loading lists later on.

filling weight in g: Here you can enter the filling weight for articles for which you cannot specify a filling quantity in litres.

quantity pcs/pc: Enter the number of items per packaging unit here, e.g. 6 bottles/carton.

EAN: Here you can store the EAN codes (pcs/pcs) for the use of a barcode scanner and for labelling on receipts (auto fields).