Components

[NVL]

I have created two components purely for stock monitoring but this is giving me "ugly" invoices.

[NVL]

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As an example we have a product which contains thirty vending packs, so what I have is the product with two components thereof being the vending cartons and the shipping outer at £0.00 value as I'm using the product price not the sum of components.

It works fine in theory... we now can see when our cartons are running out etc, historically as products are ordered.

However, what we get on the invoice is the product and rather than two additional lines like 600 small cartons and 20 shipping outers ... is multiple seperate lines for the compoonents related to each product. I would have thought there'd be a way that the system would identify it's the same related component for all the products and add them up...

OK, so can you and how do you do that (or) even better can the components of each product be supressed as the client likely doesn't need to know that for all occassions..?

[Jan]

Hi David,

You can change the product component settings to have the settings of 'No order line for main product' and a pricing model of 'Sum of components'. Then in the component you can set 'Separate order line for component' and each component will act like a separate product and there will be a single line for each one on the invoice.

If that doesn't do what you want it to do you could customise the invoice. To customise the invoice you need crystal reports 8.5.

Regards,

[NVL]

Tried that...

Each component for each assembled product is listed seperately despite the fact that they are the same component name and in association, the logic being that this "assembly" created a product and thus is a seperate line.

1 Widget + 2 Gromits and a Plug
1 Mangle + 2 Gromits a screw and a Plug

That will create an invoice like...

1 Widget
2 Gromits
1 Plug £3.67

1 Mangle
2 Gromits
1 Plug
1 Screw £4.88

...and what I need is the logic to go, ah ha, that's...

1 Widget
4 Gromits
2 Plugs
1 Screw

[Jan]

Only way to do that is to customise the invoice then.

Regards,

[NVL]

Yep, but here's the next problem...

We use Actinic Link to Sage... invoices are created in Sage...

Guess we're stuck unless there's mod to the software.

[Jan]

Nop, you are not stuck, now you need a program to merge the order detail lines together - quite a bit harder to do than customising the Actinic invoice.

Regards