Jim2® Business Engine Help File

Stock Details

Warranty

Use this field to enter the number of months this stock has warranty for, usually the standard manufacturer's warranty. It is not a calculated field, just a reference field. If you need to track warranty, see below.

Publish Price to

Choose from Price List (price list reports), Web (pricing on web pages), Price List & Web (both), or Don't Publish.

Round price up to nearest ... cents

To simplify pricing, round all odd cents up to this (nearest) amount.

Labour Content

Labour Content is explained in detail here.

Hide on Invoice

If ticked, the stock details will not be printed on the invoice. Read more here.

Cost

This field appears only on when stock is non-depleting type.

Manufact. Cost

Rate Multiplier

Only appears on the following stock types: Labour, Applies and Journal.

Rate Multiplier relates to actual labour. The figure you enter here represents a different rate based on the user's labour rate as set on their card file in the User tab. For example, if the user labour rate is $50 and you enter 2.00 in Rate Multiplier on the stock record (in this case the Onsite stock record), when adding actual labour, this rate will equate to double the $50.

Summary Kit

Only displayed if stock is Dynamic Kit. Allows for adding stock into the kit at time of job entry. Add the Kit stock, then add any other stock required and drag it into the kit.

Allow Price Override

If ticked, allows a user to change the price of this stock when adding it to a quote or job, even if that user's security level would normally not allow this.

Stock in Advance

Override default as set up in Tools > Options > Job > Stock.

If you have stock on hand, the Sell Stock in Advance will be greyed out.

Floor Cost Markup

Enter a percentage loading to be added to the actual cost of an item in order to increase the visible last cost. This allows you to compensate for handling costs, etc. in order to reflect the real cost of this item.

Manuf. Part#

This is the manufacturer's part number for this particular stock, possibly different to your own part number.

GTI/UPC Number

This is the manufacturer's barcode number for this particular stock. (Global Trade Item Number or Universal Product Code).

Disc. is % of Price

An example of usage is, you sell product on behalf of another company and you need to invoice that company for commission. Ticking this allows you to produce a job where you can do just that. When adding stock to the job, enter the Disc % and Jim2 will calculate the commission amount for you:

Note: Once you tick this tick box, you cannot untick it.

Superseded By

If there is a newer version of this stock with a different part number, you can add that part number here. Then, if you attempt to add the superseded stock code to a job, a screen will pop up, asking if you would prefer to use the newer stock code instead.

Decimal Places

Qty

Sets the decimal places for selling a quantity of this stock. If you normally sell whole units only, eg. 1, 2, 6, 10, etc. then leave this at 0. Change it if you will be selling products in fractional amounts, eg. 1.25Kg of raw peanuts. See more here.

Buy Price

Choose from 2, 3, or 4 decimal places. The default is 2.

Sell Price

Choose from 2, 3, or 4 decimal places. The default is 2.

Dimensions

Weight (kg)

This is the weight in kilograms. Use decimal points for grams.

Length (m)

This is the length in metres. Use decimal points for centimetres.

Width (m)

This is the width in metres. Use decimal points for centimetres.

Height (m)

This is the height in metres. Use decimal points for centimetres.

Volume (m3)

The volume in cubic metres (m3). This is a display only field, calculated from multiplying length by height by width.

Cubic Weight (kg)

The cubic weight in kilograms. Cubic weight is calculated by measuring and multiplying the length, height and width of the parcel. The result is then multiplied by the industry standard cubic weight conversion factor of 250.

Commissions

Exclude from Commissions

Tick to exclude this stock from Commissions.

Comm. Floor

Enter commission value for a base unit.

Commission %

Enter a Commission percentage.

Commission Extra

Add a dollar figure for exta commission.