Add & assign departments to your products for enhanced reporting and tax purposes.
Departments are a great way to categorize your inventory. It makes it easier to see which products are selling and to view reports by department. It is also great for tax purposes. Departments make it easy to break up items with different tax rates and assign tax rates to individual departments. (click here to learn about tax rates)
Adding Departments
- Navigate to the https://app.materialretail.com/departments
- Click on the Inventory drop-down
- Click on Departments
- In the top right corner, select Add Department.
- Type the department name and assign a parent department if applicable.
NOTE: To assign a parent department, the parent department must already exist.
- Click Add Department.
Assigning Departments
- After adding your department, you must now assign it to products. Please navigate to the Products page under Inventory
- To assign departments in bulk, select the checkbox next to each product you want to assign the department to.
- Next, scroll to the top and select the More button.
- Select Edit Department
- Select the department you wish to assign to the products.
- Click Save. Changes will take effect immediately.
