Pair Placeholder
Sandeep Panesar
Presently, the accessory item can be non-billable; do not order and included.
For handling cases like a pair of speakers, we need another checkbox that says "Placeholder," which will be a speaker shape with the selected product model and manufacturer details, etc., that can be dropped into the drawings but will never show in level 2 proposals or any line item reports. Might be required in install checklist reports.
This sounds like a good idea, or would just marking as non-billable and not ordering do the trick, and this might not be needed?
Sandeep Panesar
maybe, like it allows to split bulk wire, maybe we can split a pair item.
Initially maybe we can mark it as a bulk item and then split but then during oredering we need to make sure that 2 pairs are not picked instead only one pair shows in PO too.
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Chris Merklin
FWIW, I always manage speakers and their accessories in the catalog as singles. The description says "speaker", not "speakers" and I make sure the image is a single speaker too. This allows each get their own wire, stand, new-construction bracket, or other accessory. On plans and schematics, they're always ready to go as singles, to be placed where needed.
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Ben Stiegler
Chris Merklin how do you split up vendor packages where the speakers are sold as a pair?
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Chris Merklin
Ben Stiegler Ordering is different than spec'ing/bidding, so I just force the singles so we deal with each speaker in the project, but the system is made to handle this as far as I understand: On the Order tab, I check the box for "Order this product in a different unit than you sell" and I set "Order UOM" as "Pair" and "Order UOM Units" as 2.
Also, on the Price tab, top right corner, I set "UOM for Partner Cost" to "Use SI UOM" to be sure that my own split (to 2 each) is used to divide the Partner Cost in half even if the manufacturer's Partner Cost info says its one big cost for the pair. This works on other packs too, like 5 pack, 25 pack if you want to sell them as each.