Enter a unique ID for the product category, up to five characters long.

Enter a description of the product category.

Enter the customer discount category ID number – from 1-299. Product discount categories are used to give customers a specific discount off their list selling price.

For more information, see "File - Discount Matrix".

If you have set up classes for sorting and reporting , select the appropriate class for this product category.

For more information on classes, see "File - Class".

Select the product category type. Options are:

• Diminishing – items that diminish in quantity as they are sold. This enables proper stock control to occur on these items. In MRF, you would assign this category type to normal store stock items such as such as coil stock, fasteners, skylights, insulation, etc.
• Non Diminishing – stock on hand figures are not maintained for these items. They would always show 0.00 as the amount on hand. This category type is used for items such as labour, service, freight and handling fees. You should also select this type if you are setting up a product category for gift vouchers.

The cost price for non-diminishing items is always locked as a fixed price and can only be changed in the Inventory master file.

• Non Inventory – NINV  items can be created, ordered, sold, etc. The cost price on file is locked at $0.00 but Micronet prompts for it when ordering or selling NINV products. The actual purchase/sales history is retained for you and includes the cost, sell, units, margins and description. For MRF users, you would assign special buy-ins to this category type.
• Manufactured – items used by Micronet’s Kitting and Job Costing programs where a part is not purchased from an outside source but manufactured (or assembled) by another Micronet package. These items are the destination items that would be made up of other raw materials products, labour and/or direct purchases.
• Sub Assembled – items used in the Micronet Invoice Creation and Order Entry programs to identify products that are actually the assembly of other components within Micronet and can be used by a special class of kits. During invoicing, for instance, the user has the option to recall a kit as a sub-assembly, change the components, then print an invoice with the components consolidated or exploded (where the actual individual component items would each be printed on the invoice).
• Temporary – items that, if used and the quantity as a result becomes zero, are deleted at the end of the month. If the items have not been transacted on and have zero or any other quantity on hand, they are not deleted.
• Text – items used throughout MDS and the Micronet Job Costing System (MJC) so that lines of standard text can be easily entered on orders, invoices and for free form service job invoices from information given on service job cards.
• Roll Stock – items linked to the Micronet Roll Forming System (MRF) that can be manufactured via job tickets in MRF. Assign rolled manufactured items and flashings to this category type.
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Enter the minimum GP% that is acceptable during the order entry/invoicing process within Micronet. Items can only be sold at a GP less than this figure if the user’s ID has sufficient security access.

If you want to dissect sales/stock/debtors by product category, enter the name of the GL interface record for this product category.

For more information on setting up GL interface records, see "Setting up Micronet Integration".

If you are using T accounting within MGL, assign the default details for this product category.

For more details, see "9. Micronet Online Ordering".

If you are using Micronet Online Ordering (MOO) or Micronet ECOM, this field allows you to control whether selected products can be viewed by selected customers on the website.

If you are setting up a product category for items that are going to be exclusive to certain customers, select Yes. If the items in this product category are not exclusive, select No.

If you select Yes in this field, you should also set up a debtor contract with a Contract Type of Customer Exclusive (see "Adding a New Debtor Contract"), then add this product category to the debtor contract (see "Maintaining Items Included on the Contract").

If you are using Micronet Online Ordering (MOO) or Micronet ECOM, selecting a value in this field will control how the category tree is displayed. If this category is a first level category, then it will remain blank; if it is a child category, then this value should relate to its parent’s product category. If you don’t want this category to be displayed on MOO or ECOM at all, then set this value to No.

Select an options are:

• Normal –
• Gift Voucher – to create a gift voucher category type
• Credit Card Charge –
• Web Site Colour/Size Category –

2.8 Feature

If you are using automatic cycle stocktakes, select how often the items in this product category should be counted, e.g. 12 Times a Year or 4 Times a Year.

Micronet will include these items in automatic stocktake batches if the Counts Based On field on the Create Stocktake Batch dialogue is set to Category. For more information, refer to "Creating a New Stocktake Batch".