Find kit in products by locations?

Support User
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Good evening everybody,

I tried to find products of a certain category at
menu > Inventory&Stock > locations.
This works when entering Product.Categories: my-category, but only goods, no product kits are found.

When opening the category mentioned above at Products > Categories, kits are included.
Is this intended behaviour? - If so, for what reason?

Or is it rather wrong configuration in my kits?

EG

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My guess: A kit consists of separate products. You have the products on stock, but not the kit. If you produce a kit (by packaging products together) you have kit-products on stock.

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Thank you, Hartmut.

Yes, I can put those parts of kit into ‘my-category’. But in case that’s many parts, my list will be confusing. To put only one part of kit into the category (as a representative for the kit) will create confusion.

So i’d rather have the kit listed as a product.

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I find the same problem when I just check my entire stock. Kits do not appear, but components do. Is this expected behaviour?

In my case, this is not a serious problem, kits only consist of 2 components. But in case there are many components, it could be. My first idea of a “clean” solution is to iterate over all components of a kit and take the lowest number as the number of kits available. Does that make sense?

EG

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Kits are not real thing stored so they do not appear in the stock otherwise you will “double” your stock level as the components and the kits they compose will be counted twice.

Now it maye be interesting that the available quantity of a kit would be computed as the maximum kits that can be composed with the available quantity of components.

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My guess is that both scenarios can make sense:

  • kits are regarded as products, never ever single components are sold (my case), so only kits are reported
  • kits are regarded as products, but single components are sold on request, so they need to be reported as well.

Does it make sense to have a selector at products to choose between these options?

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No because stock is not about how you are selling. stock is about where are the goods physically.

But as I said the available quantity of a product is for the sale.