Deactivating Inventory Items

To watch the video on How to Deactivate Inventory Items click here.

This process is used when you need to change your Inventory Items for various reasons eg: colour changes in fabrics etc. Set the Inventory Items to inactive then Add new Inventory Items. This allows you to active these items again if required.

To set multiple items to be inactive:

Export the existing Inventory Items

Settings  →  Inventory Items   →  Import/Export

Open

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Step 1: Download our inventory items template file

Exports the current Inventory Items to an XLSX format spreadsheet.

Step 2: Save a copy of the Inventory Item file

This ensures you have a backup of the existing data in the system save a copy of the downloaded file before any changes are made.

Open the downloaded file → Enable editing → File → Save As → Choose your file location → Save

Step 3: Edit your inventory items file

****NOTE limit your upload number of lines to lots of 5000 inventory items.

Edit your items spreadsheet.

The PkId= Primary Unique Identifier column will already be populated with the unique identifier BUZ has already allocated, this MUST stay the same.

Add the product details to be updated and save the excel document to a new file name

The Operation should be D=Deactivate

Example Inventory Items deactivate import format

Step 4: Upload an excel document, Import  & Save

Select the “updated” excel document to import and then upload it to BUZ

Highlight the worksheet to upload  → Import  → Check the correct items are Updating → Save All  → Check the message these Items have been successfully modified.

The Inventory items are now deactivated in BUZ.

Manually deactivating an Inventory Item in BUZ

Settings  →  Inventory Items → Search for Inventory Item → Display

→ Click the Inventory Item link to be Deactivated

→ Archive

BUZ confirmation message