Use this article to build finished units of a product from its Bill of Materials on the BOMs tab of the Inventory Hub, so the components are deducted from stock and the finished units are added to the parent product. A Bill of Materials (BOM) describes what goes into an item you make – the ingredients of a burger, the pieces of a gift set, the parts of an assembled product. When you Build from a BOM, Shop+ deducts the components from inventory and adds the finished units to the parent product.
What is on the BOMs tab?
To open the BOMs tab, go to Products → Inventory → Stock → BOMs. The cards at the top of the BOMs tab count your Recipes (restaurant-style), Kits (bundles and gift sets), Assemblies (manufactured items) and builds in the last 30 days. The Bills of Materials table lists each BOM with its parent product, type, yield, number of components and an Auto-deduct toggle, plus Build and Edit buttons.
Auto-deduct means component stock is consumed automatically when the parent product is sold; Build is for making units ahead of time.
How do I build finished units from a BOM?
To build from a BOM, click Build on the BOM's row in the Bills of Materials table. The Build dialog tells you how many times you can build with the components on hand, and lists each component with the quantity needed per build, the total needed and the current on hand. Enter the Build count, add optional notes and click Build.
The build is recorded under Recent Builds on the BOMs tab with the number of builds, unit cost and components used.
On the On Hand tab, the parent product's stock has increased by the number of units built, and each component's stock has been reduced accordingly.
