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A product or service is a virtual father product consisting of other products. This function is activated from the Products module or service configuration page. It aims to define "packages" or "batches" of products that allow to reason about orders, invoices and inventory with a single element instead of the n products as Lot. | A product or service is a virtual father product consisting of other products. This function is activated from the Products module or service configuration page. It aims to define "packages" or "batches" of products that allow to reason about orders, invoices and inventory with a single element instead of the n products as Lot. | ||
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A virtual product complies with the following rules: | A virtual product complies with the following rules: | ||
* When adding a product in a document (proposals, invoice, order), only the line of virtual product father is shown. | * When adding a product in a document (proposals, invoice, order), only the line of virtual product father is shown. | ||
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* A virtual product may itself be composed of other virtual products that contain them real products. | * A virtual product may itself be composed of other virtual products that contain them real products. | ||
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It is not a function of "manufacturing / production" where the virtual product component products are consumed son of stock father for an additional product in stock. | It is not a function of "manufacturing / production" where the virtual product component products are consumed son of stock father for an additional product in stock. | ||
Revision as of 11:47, 5 December 2015
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| Numero/ID of module | 50 |
| User doc. of module | This page |
| Developer doc. of module | Module Products (developer) |
Introduction
This module manage a catalog of products.
See also Modules Services to manage a catalog of services or page Module Stocks to manage warehouses and stock.
Installation
This module is included with the Dolibarr distribution, so there is no need to install it.
Configuration
To use this module, you must first enable it using an administrator account, via the menu option "Home - Setup - Modules".
Choose the tab where the module is listed. Then click on "Activate".
The module is now activated.
If a cog icon appears 
on module thumb or at end of the line of the module, click on it to access the setup page specific to the module.
Definition
Products
A product is a good to manage as it is an object you sell to customers or it is an object you buy from suppliers. It is a material good, contrarily to Services.
A product follows this rules:
- A product can be stocked into a warehouse (only products appears in module Stock. Services are not visible).
- A product can be delivered (only products appears in module Shipment. Services are not visible. Services are realized but can not be shipped).
- A product is a material good. It's value often decrease with time (Value of an already used product is lower than same never used product).
Virtual products (also called Pack products)
A product or service is a virtual father product consisting of other products. This function is activated from the Products module or service configuration page. It aims to define "packages" or "batches" of products that allow to reason about orders, invoices and inventory with a single element instead of the n products as Lot.
A virtual product complies with the following rules:
- When adding a product in a document (proposals, invoice, order), only the line of virtual product father is shown.
- Product stock component virtual product is incremented / decremented when the virtual product is incremented / decremented.
- A virtual product may itself be composed of other virtual products that contain them real products.
Note: It is not a function of "manufacturing / production" where the virtual product component products are consumed son of stock father for an additional product in stock. Here, the sub-components produced a virtual product are decremented stock at the time of consumption of the virtual product and remain independent manner consumables byproducts other, unlike a manufacturing module, wherein when that a by-product is used to manufacture a father module, the products under the same stock is decremented if the father product is not yet distributed, and often this byproducts can no longer do the reverse way back in stock.
Life cycle / Business rules
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Page en attente d'être complété. Pour compléter, créez un compte, revenez et cliquez sur "Modifier".
Página a completar. Para completarla, cree una cuenta, vuelva a la página y haga clic en "editar"
Seite wartet auf Vervollständigung. Um zu helfen, erstelle ein Konto, gehe zurück und klicke auf "Bearbeiten".
Examples of use cases
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