Items & BOMs

Products vs. materials

Every row in Items is either a product (something you sell) or a material (something you consume to make a product). That single field decides where an item shows up elsewhere in the app — materials appear as options on purchase orders and recipes; products appear as options on sales and manufacturing orders.

The Items list has two tab rows: Active/Archive on top, and All/Products/Materials underneath. Archiving an item hides it from the active catalog without deleting its history — archived items can be restored (unarchived) at any time.

Adding an item

1. Go to Items and click New item.
2. Give it a name, pick Product or Material, and set its unit of measure (pcs, kg, m, etc — this is the unit it's tracked and ordered in).
3. If you've added any custom fields for items (see Settings & customization), they show up on this same form automatically.

Search narrows the list by name. Column headers are sortable — click one to reorder the table by that column.

Building a recipe (BOM)

A recipe — bill of materials, or BOM — lists what goes into producing one unit of a product. Only products have recipes; open a product's Recipe link from the Items list to get there.

1. On the item's recipe page, pick a component (any other item in your catalog — usually a material, but a sub-assembly product works too if your recipes are multi-level).
2. Enter the quantity of that component needed per unit of the finished product, and its unit.
3. Add as many component rows as the recipe needs. Remove a row any time from the same table.

If you told MRPverse during setup that your recipes are multi-level, a recipe row can point at another product that itself has a recipe — that's how sub-assemblies work: build the sub-assembly's own recipe first, then use it as a component further up.

A recipe is what a manufacturing order uses to know what materials it will need — see Manufacturing for how planned production draws on this.

Stock and pricing per item

Each item's own Stock page (linked from the Items list) is where you set its sales price, purchase price, reorder point, and safety stock, and where you log manual stock adjustments. In-stock quantity across your whole catalog lives on the separate Stock list, which is catalog-wide and includes committed/available math and low-stock flags — the Items list itself stays catalog-only so it stays fast even with a large item count.

Importing items

If you're moving from a spreadsheet, use Import from spreadsheet (linked above the Items table) instead of adding items one at a time.