Not everything you sell is something you make. A KIT is a bundle sold as one item but made up of products you already hold — a gift box, a mixed case, a promotional pack. A MISC product is something with no physical stock at all — freight, a service, a call-out fee.
Both can be sold and invoiced. Neither carries stock of its own, which is the point: a kit’s stock lives in its components, and a miscellaneous item has none to hold.
Where to find them: under Products in the main menu, which is grouped by product type.
The product types
| Type | What it is | Carries stock? |
|---|---|---|
| FG | Finished goods | Yes |
| WIP | Work in progress, semi-finished | Yes |
| RM | Raw materials | Yes |
| PC | Packaging components | Yes |
| KIT | A virtual bundle of other products | No — its components do |
| MISC | A service or non-stock item | No |
The first four are manufacturing products and behave exactly as they always have. KIT and MISC are the additions, and the rest of this article is about them.
What each type requires
| Type | Sell price | Unit of measure |
|---|---|---|
| KIT | Required | Required — a kit is a unitised bundle, so it is sold in something. |
| MISC | Required | Not required, and the field is not shown — freight has no unit. |
Both are sold rather than manufactured, so both must carry a price. The manufacturing tabs — recipes, processes and the like — are hidden on KIT and MISC products, because none of it applies.
Building a kit
A KIT product gets a Kit Components section listing what goes in the box. Each component names a product, a quantity and a unit.
Two rules are enforced when you add one:
- A product can only appear once in a given kit. Need two of something? Set the quantity to two.
- A component cannot itself be a kit. Nested kits are rejected outright, with the message “nested kits are not allowed (component must not be a kit itself)”. A kit is one level deep, always.
The component product picker is filtered to finished goods, and the unit defaults from the component product.
What happens when a kit is dispatched
The kit is sold as one line, but it cannot ship as one — the warehouse picks actual products with actual batch numbers. So when the dispatch happens the kit line explodes into its component lines, one per batch allocated.
Batches are chosen first expiring, first out, so a kit consumes the stock that needs using soonest.
A short component does not block the dispatch. Whatever stock exists is allocated across batches, and the remainder becomes a single line with no batch against it, for a picker to assign later. The component quantities still add up to the full kit requirement — the shortfall is visible rather than silently dropped.
Explosion can be re-run: change the kit quantity on the order and the previously exploded lines are replaced rather than duplicated.
Kits and MISC items on documents
- Sales orders have a dedicated + Kit button for kit lines, alongside product, charge and discount lines.
- Purchase orders have a + Misc Line button for non-stock purchases such as services and one-off items.
- Charge lines on either document must use a MISC product — a charge is not a thing you hold, so it should not point at stock.
- Neither type posts stock. Receipting or dispatching a KIT or MISC product moves no inventory: for a kit the components do that, and for a MISC item there is nothing to move.
- Stock transfers exclude them — they do not appear in the transfer product picker, because there is no stock to transfer.
Finding them in the menu
Products are grouped by type in the menu, so each screen shows one kind of product rather than a single undifferentiated list. The KIT and MISC entries appear only when the orders feature set is switched on — they exist to be sold, so they are of no use to an account not running orders.
Things to know
- A kit holds no stock of its own, so there is no on-hand figure for it. Ask the components what is available.
- Changing a kit’s components affects future dispatches. Dispatches already exploded keep the components they actually sent.
- An invoice raised from a dispatch shows the kit as the charged line, with its components listed beneath for information rather than as separately priced items.