[RetailEdge Moderator]

Every inventory item needs to be declared as a particular Stock Type. Listed below is a description of the available stock types and some of the ways that they are used

Stock - Stock items are items that you carry in your inventory that have tangible, physical quantities. When you sell a Stock item, the inventory quantity is reduced by the quantity on the sale. When you receive a stock item, the inventory quantity is increased by the amount you received.

Nonstock - Non-Stock items are items without specific quantities. Examples would include repair services and labor type items. Nonstock items might also be used for rental items if you are not interested in tracking the rental inventory quantities. Nonstock item inventory quantities are NOT reduced or increased when sold or received.

Freight – Freight items are items that are used to include shipping charges on a sale. Freight type items are not included in the sales figures on a Closing report, but are included as a separate Shipping category. Sales reports can be generated to show just shipping charges.

Gift Card – Gift Card items are items that allow you to issue and track gift card sales. When you sell a Gift Card item, RetailEdge will require that you fill in/swipe or scan the gift card number.

Rental – Rental types are treated exactly like Stock type items. Having Rental items allows you to further categorize your inventory into Rental and Stock items for sales and inventory tracking purposes. You can also sell Rental types and then return them at $0.00 (to check them back in) without effecting your sales histories.

Store Credit – Issued at POS – Store Credit items are items that allow a customer to purchase (pre-pay) for a store credit. When you sell a Store Credit item, the amount of the item is automatically applied to the customer's store credit. This is useful if you are not using or don't want to use the RetailEdge house charge functions. Like a Nonstock item, the inventory quantities are NOT reduced or increased when sold or received.

Department SKU – Department SKU items are items that when sold, do NOT use the cost information associated with the inventory item, but use the Department's average margin to calculate the cost of the item when sold. This is useful when you are making price changes to an item on the Sales Screen, but don't want your margins affected by the price change. Also, like a Nonstock item, the inventory quantities are NOT reduced or increased when sold or received. Department item when put into your inventory with a $0.00 price will automatically prompt you for a selling price when entered on the Sales Screen. Department items can be used:

· when you are first using RetailEdge and don't have time to enter your inventory, or
· when you don't want to track sales of individual inventory items, but do want to track gross department sales margins (small grocery store applications).

Department items, can be used with programmable scanners or keyboard to make your computer function more like a traditional cash register (Press a department key and then a price).