When entering a record to the Item register for an Item that will be assembled at the moment of delivery, you should use the Item Type options on the 'Pricing' card to mark the Item as "Structured":

Specify the Recipe that lists the components and quantities will be used to assemble the Item on the 'Recipe' card.

Structured Items are never held in stock: when you deliver them to Customers, stock levels of their components will be reduced.

If you would like to list the components in a Structured Item in sales and outgoing stock transactions (e.g. Quotations, Orders, Invoices and Stock Depreciations), select the Paste Components during Entry option on the 'Recipe' card of the Item record:

If you are using this option, the components will be listed in a sales or outgoing stock transaction when you enter the quantity of the Structured Item.

The Paste Components during Entry option will cause components to be listed on screen and to be printed on Delivery Notes and Picking Lists. If you do not want the components listed on screen, you can still have them printed on Delivery Notes and Picking Lists (but not other documents such as Order Acknowledgements, Invoices and Quotations). To implement this, use the Structured Items setting in the Stock module.

If you need cost of sales postings to be made from Invoices and you have Structured Items in which you have not selected the Paste Components during Entry option, it is recommended that you use the Post Structured Items Cost of Sales on Invoice option in the Cost Accounting setting in the Stock module. This will ensure that cost of sales postings will be made when you sell the Structured Items, both in Invoices that you enter directly to the Invoice register and in Invoices that you create from Sales Orders and Deliveries.

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Items and Production:

Introduction
Stocked Items
Structured Items
Phantom Items

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