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Reservable items: Catalog items can be used as ‘Services/Catering’ in reservations. The lunch, coffee, etc, are not already present/created when you select to reserve. You select them from a catalog.
Work order items: Catalog items can be used as ‘fixed tasks/price’ options in work orders. For instance, create a catalog item named ‘Empty garbage container’ and a fixed price (negotiated with a contractor). This item can be added to work orders instead of adding a free text description and manually adding a price every time, making it easier and less error-prone to specify certain tasks in work orders. The same applies to contracts; therefore, catalog items can also be linked to contract items.
Orderable items: Catalog items can be used as a list of products that can be purchased at a supplier via a purchase order. Having a fixed list of catalog items with fixed prices makes it less error-prone and makes it clearer to users which products can be purchased and at what prices.
Meter type: Catalog items can also be used to register different meter types (gas, water, and energy) and link these to the energy meters. For more information, see: Energy meters module.
Since catalog items are only relevant in relation to some of the other modules, the catalog module is automatically enabled if a relevant module (Reservations, Work orders, Contracts, Purchase orders, Energy meters) is enabled.
Most of the core concepts of this module can be managed by key users (Catalog item editors). Therefore, most concepts are described in the user manual, which can be found here: User manual: Catalog items
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