As the toilet rolls are up and running I couldn't resist adding the rest of the loft stocks into the mix. The next two items are kitchen roll and facial tissues . Following the same process described for toilet rolls; kitchen roll comes in a multipack, but this time a case has four packs of three rolls and we already have the storage location, shop and quantity units set up. Again, I think we'll have to set up a generic item (Parent product) as well as a specific one for the Kirkland brand rolls (Child product). So I gave it a name, Kitchen roll and a description; default storage location and shop, Loft / Costco ; a min stock amount, 3 rolls ; all the quantity units are Roll . Job done. Now for the specific product, as previously, pulling images and descriptions off the Costco website, setting up case and pack barcodes and quantity conversions between them, buying in Cases and using in Packs . But hang on, do we really want to track in packs of three? We only need a sin...
Grocy is now operational ; but where to start? At the bottom of course! Staying with single use items, as they are easiest to work with, toilet rolls ;are easy to quantify, very definitely something that needs to be kept above a minimum stock level and I am happy for one taken off the shelf to count as used. Most of the toilet rolls are stored in the loft, as there is plenty of space up there and they don't go off, so it is no problem to bulk buy them from Costco in a big packet (10 packs of 4 rolls). However, this means that checking how many are in stock from downstairs is quite inconvenient. The first step is to set up toilet rolls on Grocy, as we did previously for tins of baked beans. We'll need to set up a storage location, the Loft , the shop that they are purchased from, Costco , the quantity unit that they are measured in, Rolls , and the item itself, Kirkland Triple Satin Bath Tissue . The location first, and then a shop, and finally the quantity unit. Not...