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Creating new products

When creating a new product, go to Administration<Products<New Product.
  1. Choose the facility for the product
  2. Product Type: Most products created are considered "Normal". For directions on how to create a "Membership" product please visit this page:  https://sites.google.com/a/sports-it.com/help/sam/memberships/creating-membership-product
  3. Classification: Depending on the type of product you are creating and which Classification you apply, SAM will prompt for a customer account to be applied to the Shopping cart at Check-out. For example, any Food or Beverage products, will not ask for customer information. Clothing, Equipment, Miscellaneous, Rentals, Class and Team Fees will all prompt for customer information.
  4. Product GL: Not everyone uses GL Codes to help organize their finances and keep track of how much money you are bringing in for your different facets of the business. But if you do use GL codes, be sure to assign your product to the proper GL. If you have not memorized all your GL Codes, you can click the "Create GL" link to see a current list.
  5. Type a Description for the product (Ex: Snicker's Candy Bar or Hopper's Class Fee).
  6. UPC: Some products like candy, beverages, chips, and even some clothing already have UPC codes on the packaging that you can add to the product so that when you are ringing it up, you can scan the product instead of having these items on your Cash Register page. NOTE: If you need information on how to buy a product scanner gun, please visit our website and choose the Barcode scanner: http://www.sports-it.com/content/view/43/79/
  7. Available On-line: The only products you create that you want to click "yes" for this question is memberships. Customers only have the option to purchase memberships and class, team, and camp fees on-line.
  8. Ignore the Product Classification questions Sex, Size, Color, and Manufacturer.
  9. If you are wanting to add tax to your product, you can choose a tax to apply to this.
  10. Required membership(s): If you are wanting to require the customer to have a specific membership in order to purchase this product you are creating then you will need to choose all the memberships that are considered acceptable. This is very important when setting up your class, camp, and team fees. A membership prompt will display in the shopping cart if a customer does not have one of the required memberships for the product. This will also happen in MySAM. A customer will not be able to proceed to check-out until they purchase one of the acceptable memberships.
  11. Hotlist area (aka Cash Register): If you would like to have this product displayed on the Hotlist to ring up more quickly, you can select which section to place it under.
  12. Click Create Product.