# Inventory Category Setup

Inventory Categories are another way to group your inventory listing.

if you use group codes to categorize or group your inventory items and you require an addition level of categorization, then inventory category setup will be an option.

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-search-will-search-a" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 350.8px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 15.9451%;"></col><col style="width: 84.0302%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 46.4px;"><td style="height: 46.4px;"><span class="ts0">Search</span></td><td style="height: 46.4px;"><span class="ts0">Returns all existing inventory Categories previously created. Leave the Code and Description fields blank to see all categories.</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Code</span></td><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Search by code. Enter the code or part of the code.</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Description</span></td><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Search by Description. Enter description or part of the description.</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Add</span></td><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Brings up the window to create a new category</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 33.8px;"><td style="height: 33.8px;"><span class="ts0">Edit</span></td><td style="height: 33.8px;"><span class="ts0">Allows the User to amend an existing category.</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 33.8px;"><td style="height: 33.8px;"><span class="ts0">Delete</span></td><td style="height: 33.8px;"><span class="ts0">Allows the User to delete a category provided they have not been used or linked to inventory items.</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Print Grid</span></td><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Allows the user to print the categories displayed in the grid based on the respective search.</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Stock Category import/export</span></td><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span class="ts0">Options to either export existing categories or import new categories form an excel worksheet.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

To Create a new inventory category

- Click the Add button
- Enter a Code
- Enter a description.
- Click Save and Close, or Save and New to add another category.

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