Inactivating Inventory Items

Inactivating Inventory Items

Overview

Items may be inactivated if they are no longer needed in your inventory.

Usage

To inactivate an item,

  1. Navigate to Inventory / Items
  2. Hightlight the item(s) to inactivate.   Use the ctrl key (windows) or cmd key (mac) to select multiple items.
  3. Right click and choose Edit / Make Inactive.     These may be made active again later by choosing Make Active from this menu.

You cannot inactivate inventory items that are involved in active transactions or those that have quantity on hand at any location.

Inactivating Items

Inactive items will appear with strikethrough text.     You may hide these items by checking the Hide Inactive Items checkbox at the bottom of the items list.


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