Creating products individually
Having your product catalog is a very important part of the sales process in Handy.
You can load products individually or in bulk using an Excel template. This article will go over how to create products individually.
Creating products individually
In the Handy web portal, click on Products in the main menu.
There, click on +Add, and from tSome readersUse special prices in promotion rewards
In our promotions system, when activating an order, you can offer discounted or free products as rewards. | These discounts are usually calculated using base prices. However, this can cause problems with clients who have assigned price lists or special prices.
We give you the option to respect the client's special prices and assigned price lists and apply promotion discounts over these special prices instead of regular prices.
When creating promotions, you can enable the following setting:Some readersImport products in bulk for price lists
This option will help you save time when adding products to a price list.
To import products in bulk to a price list, you need to follow the next steps:
Create a new price list in the Price Lists menu
Create a new price list
Click on + Create New Price List. You'll need to give it a name and a brief description.
Once you've created a new list, click on Add new, then select Product prices from Excel.
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Look for the "More filters" section in the filters tab.
Click on "With price increase" in the "More filters" section.
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With Handy, you can manage different pricing schemes, from the most general to more specific ones.
These are the pricing schemes you can work with on Handy:
List prices
The default prices, assigned to your products in the general catalog.
Price lists
Groups of special prices that you can assign to specific clients. For example: wholesale lists.
Special prices per client
These are useful if you've negotiated special prices with a client for certain products.Few readersLook up products in the mobile app
From the Main Menu, select Products to view them.
After entering, you'll see a list of existing products, organized according to the category each one belongs to.
Click on the Search to find a product, and type its name.
You can alFew readersEnable and disable product families
If you want to disable product families, click on Product family in the Main menu:
Here, you can click on "Show disabled families" to display the families you've previously disabled:
To disable or enable a product family, click on the threFew readersSet the reference price for products 👀
You can now select the type of reference price you prefer to analyse price variations by product.
1️⃣ Choose a product and click on the Edit Reference Price button.
2️⃣ Decide the reference price type from which you want to post the price change.
1Few readersProduct families and categories
Your product catalog can contain as many items as there are SKUs managed by your company. To simplify the use of your product catalog, we provide you with two more options to group or filter them as needed.
Every product must belong to a product Family, but the Category is optional, and you can decide not to use it if it's of no value to you.
Let's see an example of how to use these two grouping tools.
If I own a convenience store:
I use the concept of Family to group my products as foFew readersDuplicate products, why?
A product is duplicated when there are differences in the following elements of the invoice, delivery note or ticket:
🍎 The description
📦 The purchase format
🚚 The supplier
If you want to see a joint analysis of two different products, group the products together. See how to do this in the product grouping article.
🍎 The description is differentFew readersConvert product purchase format to base unit (Kg, L or Ud)
Why?
📦 Converting purchase formats (boxes, bottles...) to a base unit of measurement (kilograms, litres...) is essential.
🚚 When working with different suppliers and products, it is common for purchase formats to vary, which can lead to confusion and errors in cost control, scandals and inventories.
Converting all purchase formats to a base unit, allows you to compare prices more accurately, define the quantity of product used in the scandals and control production costs.
Convert purchFew readersDisable or edit products
In the Handy app, products cannot be deleted, but they can be enabled or disabled. When disabled, they won't be visible to mobile users, but the traceability of information is maintained.
You can disable products one by one or in bulk.
One by one
In the Main Menu tab, select Products.
Click on the edit button of the product you wish to disable.
![Few readersSales goals by product
Handy lets you create sales goals to keep track of your salespeople's progress. These goals let you manage your company's objectives as well as see which of your salespeople are performing the best.
To create sales goals by product, go to the Reports and goals menu:
Then, click on create goal:
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/6/4Few readersCategorise products by families 🌈
📌 Levels of families and subfamilies
📌 Assign families from products
📌 Assign families from documents
📌 Assigning families from suppliers
📌 How to interpret the category chart
In haddock you will have your suppliers, documents and products categorised by three levels:
First level Category
Example: Drinks
Second level Family
Example: Non-alcoholic drinks
Third level ****SubfamFew readersImport prices by client
In order to start this process, it's important that you have already created your products.
In Handy's web portal, go to the Main menu and select **Products. **
There, you'll see a list of your enabled products. Click on Import prices by customer:
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