Settings
Inventory items
The item library your quotes count — each item's size, weight, labor time, extra fees, bulky charges, packing and special handling — per move type.
- 2 min read
- Checked against MoveBoard
- For owners & admins
Settings › Inventory › Inventory items is the catalog of things a customer (or your office) can put on an inventory: sofas, beds, boxes, a piano. Each item carries the size, weight and extra time it adds to a quote.
Before you start
Anyone who can open Settings can change the library. It is kept per move type (pick it at the top). Each item saves on its own when you press Create or Update — there is no page-wide Save.
Editing an item never changes it on orders already quoted: the item is saved as a new one and those orders keep the old.
Find an item
- Search items by name.
- See only narrows the list (for example to special items); press Apply, or Reset to clear it. Choices marked This functionality is coming soon can't be picked yet.
Add or change an item
Press New inventory item, or Edit item on a card. The pop-up has five tabs:
- Item — Name, Description, size (CuFt) and weight (lbs), Special Item, Item Category.
- Settings — Additional Labor Time, Min number of movers required, up to three extra charges (Extra Service Name and Extra Fee), and Bulky Item charges: Apply to long distance moves (Price) and Apply to storage (Price per Month).
- Image — the picture: drop a photo, Find a picture, or Your own photo (web address). A photo replaces the stock picture.
- Packing — the packing products this item needs, with a Quantity; they're added to a quote when the item is. (Products come from Packing materials.)
- Special Handling — Disassembly / assembly, Wood crating, Wall dismounting: which are Available, which one is Recommended, and its Price.
Press Create (or Update). Remove takes the item out of the library (Remove Item). Close with unsaved changes asks You are about to discard your changes. Do you want to proceed? — Yes, discard or No, keep editing.
Copy to other move types
Copy to other move types puts this move type's whole list on the other two, after asking.
Also used by
Rooms group items on an inventory (Rooms); typical lists fill an inventory in one step (Typical inventory). How customers fill in their inventory is in Send the inventory link.
Related guides
- InventorySend the inventory linkOne press emails and texts the customer a link straight to their inventory list, so you can price the move exactly.
- OrdersInventory on the orderOpen and edit an order's inventory from the order window, see its cubic feet and special items, and know when the customer sent theirs.
- SettingsRoomsThe rooms an inventory is sorted by — living room, kitchen, garage — per move type.
- SettingsTypical inventoryWhat each room and each move size usually holds, so customers and the office can fill an inventory in one step.
- SettingsPacking materialsThe boxes and supplies an order can carry, with their prices for hourly and long-distance moves, the order they're listed in, and — for administrators — what each one costs you.
Still stuck? A person will help.
Open a ticket from Support inside MoveBoard, or email us — we usually reply within one business day.