A kit is one item you sell that is a bundle of items you stock. A Gift Box might hold 1 Mug, 2 Coasters and gift wrapping (a service).
| What happens | Example: 2 Gift Boxes at 50 |
|---|---|
| The invoice shows one line at the kit's price, with revenue to the kit's income account. | Gift Box × 2 = 100. |
| Stock moves for the components, not the kit. A service in the kit moves nothing. | 2 Mugs and 4 Coasters leave stock. |
| Cost of goods sold is the components' own cost. | 2 × 10 + 4 × 3 = 32. |
| The stock check counts components and names the short one. | Coaster: have 2, need 4. |
| A credit note returning the kit puts the components back at the cost they left at. | Returning 1 brings back 1 Mug and 2 Coasters. |
Kits work the same way on invoices, sales receipts, credit notes and sales order deliveries (including shipments from Pick & Pack).
#Creating a kit
- Inventory → Items → New item, Type Kit (a bundle of items). A kit has no Purchases card: it is sold, not bought. Fill in Sales as usual and Create item.
- Open it again. In Components, Add component for each item and its quantity per kit, then Save components. A component can be any item except a kit, a template with variants, or the kit itself.
The card shows each component's on hand, how many kits stock makes now (5 Mugs and 6 Coasters make 3 Gift Boxes), and what the components cost per kit. The Items list shows the same figure as 3 makeable.
#Rules
- A kit is never bought, counted or stocked itself. Bills, purchase orders, adjustments, transfers and production refuse it: use its components.
- Once a kit has been on a document, its components and its type are fixed. Changing what an old sale contained would re-cost it. For new contents, create a new kit.
- A batch- or serial-tracked component is picked automatically, oldest first (section 10.11).
- A kit can't have variants (section 10.12).
Building finished boxes ahead of time and keeping them in stock is manufacturing (Chapter 11), not a kit.