When we use special-purpose items

You can see from the list in the previous section that there are a lot of item types in each account, and a business will largely control which of those we use. However, it’s not at all uncommon for a company to need many types, so let’s cover a few of the important use cases here (the rest you can just read up on on the Help page and then be prepared to talk about when needed).

Lot numbered items

Any time a client needs to track items in sets, as they’re received and when they’re fulfilled (heading out the door), we assign lot numbers to those sets. A lot can have one specific item number in it or many, but the point is to assign these numbers to the items while your client has them in a warehouse. This is most common for food and beverage-type businesses, but anyone might have a use for this feature.

Serial numbered items

This is not a type unto itself, but a feature that you can choose to enable within...