Product Settings
Set default product settings to control how products appear and function in your Supply’d account.
In Product Settings you can set personalised preferences such as custom product tags, target profit margins, barcode preferences, label colours and fonts, and ticket information.
This document will guide you through applying settings for:
Applying & Editing Product Settings
To apply or edit your product settings click on your company name in the top right and select Settings.
Select Product Settings from the Settings menu.
The Product Settings form will open.
To open or close the sections on this form click the little arrows to the right of the titles (as circled in red above).
Complete the fields as per the guidelines below:
Product Editing
Show Matching Supply'd Suppliers
Whether or not Supply'd suppliers should appear on product pages for products you have created. Barcodes are used to match the products. Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu.
Hide Food Fields
Whether or not to show food fields such as ingredients when editing a product. Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu.
Custom Product Tags
Add any custom tags you would like to use on products. 1 per line.
Tags
Allows you to select a number of tags that suit the product. Some tags are predefined by Supply'd and are used to match particular product types. For example, whether the product is vegan, vegetarian, nut free, gluten free etc. Customers can use tags to find, for example, all vegan products that match a given search query. Tags are selected when adding or updating a product.
See the Adding & Updating Products document for how to add tags to a product.
Predict & Scan
Choose your settings for predictions and ordering defaults.
Default Sales Period (Days)* [required]
If the delivery period for a supplier or item is unknown, this period will be used for the predicted sales period.
Default Min. Stock Hold (Units)* [required]
If no minimum stock hold is set for an item, this default minimum stock hold will be used instead.
Ignore Non-working Days
Whether or not to ignore non-working days in sales predictions. If you don't typically receive orders while your business is closed we recommend setting this to "No" to prevent non-trading days skewing-down sales predictions. Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu.
Ignore Purchase Orders Beyond (Days)
For stock on order when using scan to order, how many days should an order be left on order before it is ignored. This helps prevent orders that don't get received affecting the ordering for too long. Set to "0" to not consider purchase orders when ordering.
Auto-apply Predictions
When an order recommendation is made while using scan to order, auto apply will apply the prediction upon scan. Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu.
Auto-apply Default
The default quantity to order if the prediction is zero.
Product Pricing
Choose your product pricing settings.
Sell Product Price Input
Whether or not product prices should be added including or excluding tax when adding in Supply'd. Select Yes to include tax, or No to exclude it, from the drop-down menu.
Price Change Effective Time
The time of day that price changes come into effect.
Target Margin
The ideal minimum margin you would like for products you sell. This is used for the colour indicator on margins when editing a product.
Margin Rounding
What decimal to round pricing to when defining a specific margin on a price. Use the up and down arrows to adjust.
Product Defaults
Default Item Weight (kg)
A fallback weight to use for items where the weight is not defined in kilograms.
Default Dimensions (cm)
A fallback dimension to use for items where the dimension is not defined in centimetres.
Inventory
Choose your product viewing settings.
Inventory Step
What step to use for inventory counts. Default is 1, which will allow on full u its to be stored. If you want to allow for partial units you can enter 0.1 for a single decimal or 0.01 for 2 decimal places. A maximum of 4 decimal places is supported.
SKU & Barcode Generation
SKU* [required]
The format to use when generating a SKU.
First Letter + Unique Count Will generate the SKU using the first letter of the brand and name (5 characters max) followed by the a unique count starting from 01.
First Letter + Size + Unique Count Will generate the SKU using the first letter of the brand and name (5 characters max) followed by the size and a unique count starting from 01.
First Letter + Carton QTY + Unique Count Will generate the SKU using the first letter of the brand and name (5 characters max) followed by the carton qty and a unique count starting from 01.
First Letter + Size + Carton QTY + Unique Count Will generate the SKU using the first letter of the brand and name (5 characters max) followed by the size, carton qty and a unique count starting from 01.
Count Will generate the SKU using numbers only by counting up from the count provided in "Next Count". When this is selected an extra field, SKU Next Count* (this is a required field), will show:
SKU Next Count The next value of the SKU count.
Barcode Length* [required]
The length to generate barcodes. Select from 10 to 14 Character from the drop-down menu.
Barcode Prefix* [required]
The prefix to use for generated barcodes. The prefix will be used in combination with the count to generated the barcode.
Barcode Count* [required]
The next value for the generated barcodes. If the count or prefix length is shorter than the requested barcode length, additional zeros will be added before the count to ensure the right length is generated.
Product Labels
Default Font* [required]
Select the default font to use for text on product labels from the drop-down menu.
Default Barcode* [required]
Select the default barcode type to use on product labels from the drop-down menu.
Default SKU* [required]
Select the default SKU setting to display on product labels from the drop-down menu..
Label Text
Freeform text from the product labels. Can be used to provide required label information such as a company address.
Storage Info - Ambient
Storage information to include for ambient products.
Storage Refrigerated - Ambient
Storage information to include for refrigerated products.
Storage Info - Frozen
Storage information to include for frozen products.
Label Logos
Logos to use on product labels. New logos can be uploaded by clicking on Choose File.
The list can be reorganised by clicking and dragging on the 3 lines on the left beside the logo.
Product Tickets
Default Font* [required]
The default font for text on shelf tickets/talkers. Can be overridden when generating tickets/talkers. Select desired font from the drop-down menu.
Sale Colour
The colour for sale text and bubbles on labels.
Swatch Colour 1 to 6
A swatch colour for easy reference on the product print screen.
Gift Note Settings
Note Message Field
How to find the message data to populate the gift note from the order item data.
Meta Field Key
The meta field key to look for the message content.
Custom Fields
Add custom fields to products to store and manage specific information.
To add a custom field click Add Field. Complete the fields as follows:
Field Name
A name for the custom field. This will be displayed as the label product screen for this field.
Field Type
The type of field for this custom field. Select Short Text, Long Text or Drop Down from the drop-down menu.
Default Text
The default text to pre-fill this field. Leave blank to not pre-fill this field.
Required
Whether or not the field is a required field. Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu.
Repeat for any other custom fields you require.
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