In this video, I explain how to manage items on the Digit platform. I cover creating items, adding descriptions, SKUs, photos, and variants. I also discuss setting categories, types, units of measure, stock levels, and purchase details. Action requested: Understand the item management process on Digit.
Video Transcript
0:00 Items are an essential part of the Digit platform. With items, you can manage all of your raw materials and finished goods here in Digit.
0:08 To create an item, click on the button in the top right of the item detail screen, and you'll see the item window pop up.
0:15 Here, you can select an item name. It's important to note that this name must be unique, and you cannot have two.
0:22 You can provide an item description, an item SKU, and you can add as many photos of the item as you'd like.
0:28 Items can have an active archive or draft status. You can select variants to add variants to this item. And you can create categories and tags for your items.
0:38 For example, if you have a thousand items and two hundred items, 100 are backpacks, 100 are pens, 50 are pieces of clothing.
0:47 You can select item categories for backpacks, pens, and clothing that will then pertain to all of those specific items. You can then create different item types.
0:57 If it's a raw material that you buy from a you can select buy, if it's not. If it's an item you make in-house or with external production partners you can select make, or if it's an item you sell you can select sell.
1:08 What's neat about Digit is that an item can be any combination of these. As you select these different things you might see that the window in the top here updates.
1:18 When you select Make, for example, you see that a production screen pops up. When you select Buy, you can see that a vendor and a purchasing screen appears.
1:25 We'll get more into that here in just a minute. With each item you can then select the units of measure that that item is going to have.
1:33 If this is sold in cases, in feet, in gallons, you can select whatever unit of measure you'd like here. In this case we'll select pieces.
1:41 If you want to set a default warehouse location for this item, you can put that here. And if you want to have a minimum stock level for that item, you can have that here.
1:49 If you set the minimum stock level and you have the minimum stock level notification feature turned on in the settings tab, you'll be able to receive an email every day that gives you a list of any item that's below the minimum stock level.
2:01 So that you can take action to purchase or make that material to get it back up to the right level.
2:06 You can select a different unit of measure to purchase this. So, let's say that you store it in pieces, but you buy it in cases.
2:13 You can set that here. You can also determine the default purchase price. If you buy it for $10 per case, $20 per case, so on.
2:21 If to add a custom field to this item, certification, length, width, thickness, whatever it may be, you can add that by using the custom field here.
2:29 Once you have all of your things created, you can hit create new item to actually make that item here in the system.
2:35 I want to take a look at an item that has variants. So if you have an item, in this case a microfiber lining, and this item can be made in three different variants, blue, green, or red.
2:46 You can create an item with variants by toggling this to on, going to the variants tab, and seeing that you have added an option called color, with option values blue, green, and When you generate those items, variants, it creates the three unique items here, and each of these unique items can then have
3:04 its own item detail screen where you can specifically input that item's settings. You can then see all of the parent and variant items in the dropdown here.
3:15 If an item does not have variance, it's treated as a single item. And it does not have any parent or variant structure.
3:21 Once you've created those items, you can see a lot of helpful information in the main item table. The status, how much inventory is available, how much is expected from procurement, from production, how much value is currently in inventory, in dollar value, along with any custom field information.
3:37 That you can put here.