Bundles and kits

Sell a kit as one line and relieve every component from stock.

An item of type Bundle is sold as one line but is made of other items.

Setting one up: create the item as a bundle, then add its components and the quantity of each.

What happens on a sale: the bundle explodes into its components and each one's stock is relieved. Without this, on-hand quantities drift the moment a kit is sold.

Availability: before selling, IntuBu shows which components are short and by how much.

Two rules: a bundle cannot contain itself, and a bundle cannot contain another bundle — flatten it instead. Nested kits make stock arithmetic ambiguous.

For manufactured goods that are built rather than assembled at the point of sale, use a Bill of Material and a Work Order instead (Inventory → Bills of material).