We have some parts that we resell either as-is or with assembly. (Think flat pack furniture.) Currently these are all non-stock/buy-to-order parts, but we anticipate some of them becoming stock parts. How would you set up the parts, sales orders, and jobs to capture the labor?
Thinking of how it would look to the customer, I’d like to put the unassembled item on the sales order and add a misc charge for assembly. But I don’t know how the misc charge would generate a job. Can misc charges create demand for “parts” that are just labor and no materials?
Another idea would be to have separate parts for the unassembled and assembled items. The unassembled part would be purchased and the assembled part would be manufactured. The assembled part would have the unassembled part as a material. I could probably automate syncing prices between unassembled and assembled parts.