Communities can create an inventory of their stock to manage and track items that can be offered to event participants
Select "Inventory" from the left hand menu on your community page to create an inventory item record. Any existing inventory items will also be listed here. Select the blue + icon, to take you to the creation dialogue.
Each item has a Name, and a Category which will group the items together. For example, a Name could be the name of a cooking utensil or brand of a tent and then the category could be Kitchen or Tents.
The purchase cost allows communities to store the original cost price information against each item.
Event Facilitators can define in the "participant use" drop down whether these items are solely for community use at events, or whether they are available for loan or purchase. This is particularly useful to distinguish between larger items such as tents or sleeping bags and community merchandise on sale at the event, such as t-shirts or water bottles etc.
In addition, each item ahs a variation option. This could be the colour or size for example. By selecting the blue + icon, you can add these variations and the sizes or colour available for each item.
Once created, Users can add an image of the item.
Once an inventory item has been created, the community can keep trakc of how many of these items they have available for community use.
When viewing the community inventory page, the "Available variations" section at the base of the page will confirm each item available.
To record items available on initial set up, select the clue + icon in this availability section to add the detail once the item has been created. Once an available option appears in this section, select the option to add the stock numbers for each