Deleting Product Brands/Categories In Inventory

Over time, your business may need to clean up outdated or unused product brands and categories. MyTime makes it easy to manage your inventory by allowing you to delete product brands and categories directly from your inventory. This article will guide you through the steps to delete product brands and categories.

Things to know:

• The ability to delete product brands/categories is governed by the "Accessing Inventory Details" access control setting 
• For franchise businesses with global products, deleting a product's brand and/or category has to be done at the parent level.
• To delete an inventory category, you must first ensure that it contains no assigned products. If you attempt to delete a category that is still in use, the system will display a pop-up window listing all items currently linked to it. For your convenience, you can click on any product name within this list to jump directly to its settings and reassign it to a different category. Once the category is completely empty, you will be able to successfully delete it from your inventory list. 
• The Inventory Turn report will reflect the updated category after a product’s category is changed or deleted. However, sales reports—such as the Product Sales Detail report—will display historical data based on the category assigned to the product at the time of the sale. 
• If a product category is deleted, any tax assigned to the category will be removed.

To delete a product's brand/category via inventory:

1. Navigate to POS > Inventory 
2. Locate a product and click the arrow on the right to expand the product details 
3. Click 'Edit Product Details' 
4. On the edit product details modal, click the dropdown arrow next to the category and/or brand
5. There will be a red X next to each category/brand in the list. Clicking that X will delete the category or brand 
6. Confirm the deletion by clicking "Yes" on the 'Delete Category/Brand' pop-up 
7. The category/brand will be removed from the list
8. Click 'Save'

The category/brand will be removed from your inventory's category list. 

For more information, contact us at support@mytime.com or (385) 233-6964.    

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