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Slide notes: In this tutorial we are going to look at the Stores Master, but before we get there it is useful to consider a Stock Item master.

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Slide notes: On this Stock Item Master we can see line entries for various Stores, each with a setting for Open / Closed, Profit Type, Pricing Type and Stocking levels. Now imagine if we have a Stock Catalogue with 40,000 Stock Items, and we want to change the properties for one of the Stores, or even insert a new Store that we have opened. That would be a huge task, because if we need to go to each Stock Item to make the change, then that would really be a lot of work. Fortunately, the Stores Master has a wizard to perform some of this work for us automatically. So let us go there and have a look.

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Slide notes: We can open as many Stores Master records as we need. For each Store, a Sub Ledger is opened in the main General Ledger, and the Control Account that is selected is the head of this Sub Ledger. All transactions on Stock Items in this Store will also be reflected in the Control Account, and the Control Account will at all times automatically balance to the total value of all Stock in that Store. Therefore, the Control Account should only be used for 1 Store at a time.

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Slide notes: For each Store, we may select that it is a Retail Store or a Warehouse or both.

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Slide notes: And the Help explains the meaning of these choices.

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Slide notes: Next, we look at the wizard option called "Populate Store". This wizard has functions to update any selection of Stock Items in the Catalogue, and insert this Store, or to change settings and properties for this Store on the selected Stock Items, according to the choices we exercise.

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Slide notes: When we apply the wizard for some action, we always make a selection of Stock Items from the Catalogue, and only these selected Stock Items will potentially be affected. We may select the entire Catalogue, or just some parts of it.

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Slide notes: Next, we choose between Insert & Amend, or only Insert or only Amend.

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Slide notes: And then we choose the type of Action, and depending on the choice we make, we will be prompted for the Values to use.

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Slide notes: So the Stores wizard to populate Stock Items in the Store is powerful, flexible and useful.