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Building your article database
User rights for article management (adding, viewing, modifying,...) can be set up either at the Modify User Page or the User Right Page
under the element An 'article', in the following, is any item your company sells (no matter its price or size) and that can be counted individually.
Registering an article requires at least one defined tax code ; this tax will be 'not included' or 'always included' in the unit price according to the Merchant setting for tax.
To create a new article, follow 
/ 
/ 
, where 'TYPE' is the type which this new article will belong to (here, "Snacks" ; it is 'default' if no types are created yet, or if you do not wish to create any). This leads to the Add Article Page, where, as usual, fill-in fields and drop-down menus are here to make the article's description as exhaustive as possible :
The information that will be given by fill-in fields consist mainly in this new article's name, its unit price and the minimum quantity by which it will be ordered (by default 1).
The first drop-down menus let you choose :
- the article type ;
- the category. If, on the Merchant Configuration Page, 'article in multiple categories' has been activated, this menu is replaced by a
button leading to :
where one has to
the main category (always in bold) and has the possibility to add other ones ;
- a parent article category or none ; also, whether this article has (and in a optional or required way) parent and child articles ;
- for each defined tax category, a tax code.
Other menus deal with various article options, pertaining to :
It is also possible to 
or 
to this new article.
Finally, a text description can be added after the article is created.
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