Product kits are predefined sets of components, which your company groups and sells together. For example, your company may group the various parts needed for a typical motor rebuild and sell those products as a motor rebuild kit. Other common kits include connector kits, faucet kits, gasket kits, and switch kits.
Products kits have these advantages:
Kits already include all the needed parts. So for a connector kit, you don't need to enter each washer and widget separately.
Your company can create additional profit and customer convenience by making its own kits.
Product managers can create two types of kits:
Standard kits – These do not show any on-hand quantities (though the various components within the kits do).
Dynamic kits – These allow their own on-hand quantities (in addition to the on-hand quantities for the components). Use this ability to create new kits from existing dynamic kits.
During sales order entry, authorized salespeople can also customize kits on the fly, tailoring a kit to a customer's needs. For example, within a faucet kit, you might be able to exchange chrome handles for gold.
In most ways, selling a kit is like selling any other product. A kit, however, only shows as available when all of its components are available. Depending on the setting for the kit, the tickets and invoices can print all the component parts, or not.
See the following topics for the normal workflow when using product kits:
See Also:
Selling Partial Kits and Back-Ordering Unavailable Components