Utilities#

Utilities is one home for the shared reference lists your firm reuses everywhere — manufacturers, product units, and warehouses. These lists used to be scattered (manufacturers were buried inside Suppliers, units inside Products, and warehouses had their own sidebar entry). They now live together under one screen with secondary tabs, so there is a single place to maintain them.

Open Utilities#

Open Data Entry in the sidebar and click Utilities. The page opens on the first tab you have permission to see.

The tabs you see depend on your permissions:

• Manufacturers — shown if you can view suppliers or edit product heads.
• Product Units — shown if you can view or edit product heads.
• Warehouses — shown if you can create or manage godowns or rooms.

If you have access to none of these, the page tells you so.

Manufacturers#

Manufacturers — also called makes — are the brands behind the products you sell or source. Add, rename, attach documents to, or delete them here. Renaming asks for confirmation first, because the name reflects on every supplier and product where the make is referenced. See Manufacturers for the full walkthrough.

Product Units#

Product units are the units of measure used across your catalogue — for example Kilogram (kg) or Metre (m). Each unit has a display name and a shortform. Add, edit, or delete them here; a unit that is still referenced by a product head, product code, or enquiry cannot be deleted until it is removed from those records first.

Warehouses#

A warehouse — referred to as a Godown on the add button — is a physical location where you store stock. Add warehouses, manage their rooms, and generate QR codes from this tab. See Warehouses for the full walkthrough.

Common questions#

Where did the Manage Manufacturers and Manage Units buttons go?#

They moved. Instead of opening as pop-up windows from inside the Suppliers and Products pages, manufacturers and product units now have their own tabs here under Utilities. Nothing about how they work changed — only where you find them.

Why was Warehouses moved under Utilities?#

To keep the sidebar tidy and group all the firm's shared reference lists in one predictable place. Warehouses work exactly as before; they are now the third tab on this screen.