Usage#
The items found under the [] main menu item allow you to view and manage the products on your system.
Using product templates and variants#
Tryton makes it easy to create Products which have one or more slightly different Variants.
A simple example of where you could use this is in a company that supplies clothes. Each type of shirt may come in a range of different sizes, but most of the properties of the shirt, such as the name, unit of measurement, categories, and so on, would be the same. So in this case you would create a single Product to represent the shirt, and a Variant for each of the different sizes. Structuring your products like this can help you manage and update them.
Tip
You may find that your products are not suited to being structured in this way. If so, don’t worry, when you create a new Product from the [] menu item a single variant is automatically created for you and displayed as part of the product.
Categorising products#
It can be a good idea to organise your Products into groups. This makes it much easier to find and manage them effectively, especially if you have a lot of products on your system.
The product Categories are designed for this purpose. You can create categories with any name you want, and then add the appropriate categories to each product. Each product can belong to as many, or as few, categories as required. The categories can also be organised into a structure, with each category having a parent category and some subcategories. This can help you classify your products more finely.
For example, a clothes supplier may use these categories:
Accessories
Clothes
Shirts
Short sleeves
Long sleeves
Jumpers
Range
Spring Summer
Autumn Winter
Christmas
Based on these categories, you may decide that a particular lightweight shirt
belongs in the Clothes / Shirts / Short sleeves and
Range / Spring Summer categories.
Tip
To get a list of all the products in a category first open the [] menu item. Then when you open one of the categories listed here you will get a list of all the products in that category.
Replacing a product#
When a Product is no more available but can be replaced by another equivalent product, you can run the Replace product wizard. Here, you will be able to enter the product to be replaced and the replacement product. Tryton will store the information and deactivate the replaced product if possible or the Deactivate Replaced Products scheduled task will try to do it later.