How do I Deal with Consumables?

Summary

This article will explain how to deal with Consumable items.

Consumable items are items that you do not want to keep stock levels of and will be used usually in the workshop as part of servicing, these items may be things like Copper slip, chain lube etc.

More Information

• If you want to be able to charge consumable items out to customers, you will need to create a Non moving part code for your consumables see How do I Create Non-Moving Items?.
• The part number will want a Sales Centre see How do I Create a Sales or Purchase Centre? against it that will link to a Sales Centre of consumable Nominal code see How do I Create a Nominal Code?

When you purchase consumable items you do not need to goods receive these items, you just need to post the invoice to a relevant centre within your Profit and Loss. This centre could be a COS centre if you are using a non moving part number to charge customers for consumables or it could be an overhead centre if you are not charging customers for these items.

See Also

How do I Create a Sales or Purchase Centre? How do I Create Non-Moving Items? How do I Create a Nominal Code?

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Keywords AND Misspellings

Consumables, Workshop Consumables, Vehicle Sales Consumables, Showroom Consumables,