Sale from Inventory - Reduction from Inventory vs. Production Orders

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Hello,

I am interested in an easier more sufficient method if one exists. I own a spice and seasoning blend company. I offer the sale of inventory from two different priced options:

  1. Customer provides their own container, and I charge the price per ounce (net wt)
  2. Customer purchases spice by the ounce, in either a bag or jar

When I purchase the initial supplies, they are entered into the inventory as a cost per ounce, therefore I can utilize the same inventory item for #1 listed above in the sales order. I do not utilize a production order for this sale.

For the second inventory item (Per ounce jar/bag), I create a production order to properly capture the cost, and reduce my actual per ounce inventory of the spice or blend. The items in the production order are: spice per ounce, label, lid, and jar. Keep in mind, frequently the spices are jarred (production) and sold at the same time.

Do I always have to create a production order (jar/bag) every time I need to place a sale? Is there a way that I can build an inventory item that automatically reduces all of the elements of that item?

In other words, Is there a way that we can create a sales invoice that automatically reduces the inventory of the three items, but only shows the price of the top rolled up item?

I apologize if I am not communicating this properly. If the Manager program has a better way, I would love to hear about it. Otherwise, I will continue to utilize the production order each time a sale is generated.

Thank you

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If you are producing finished inventory for later sale then you would use Production orders.
But if you are building an inventory item for instant sale then you could use Settings - Inventory Kits.

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Thank you for your response. I will look into this further.