Item Brands
An Item Brand is used to identify the manufacturer or brand associated with an item.
Brands help you organize and identify products, especially when your business sells products from multiple manufacturers.
What Is an Item Brand?
An Item Brand represents the brand or manufacturer of a product.
For example:
- Apple
- Samsung
- Dell
- HP
- Logitech
- Coca-Cola
Once a brand is created, it can be selected when creating or editing an item.
Example
For the item:
Item Name: Dell Latitude 5440
Item Brand: Dell
Item Group: Electronics → Computers → Laptops
Item Type: Stock Part
This separates the item's brand, category, and item type.
Creating an Item Brand
When creating an Item Brand, enter the following information.
Name
Enter the name of the brand.
Example:
Dell
The Name is required.
Description
Enter an optional description of the brand.
You can use this field to record additional information about the brand or manufacturer.
Example:
A global manufacturer of computers and technology products.
Using Item Brands
After creating a brand, you can select it in the Item Brand field when creating or editing an item.
For example:
| Item | Brand | Item Group |
| Dell Latitude 5440 | Dell | Electronics → Laptops |
| HP ProBook 440 | HP | Electronics → Laptops |
| Logitech MX Keys | Logitech | Electronics → Keyboards |
This allows your item list to contain both brand information and category information.
Item Brand vs. Item Group
Item Brand and Item Group have different purposes.
| Item Brand | Item Group |
| Purpose | Identifies the manufacturer or brand | Categorizes and organizes items |
| Example | Dell | Electronics → Laptops |
| Supports subgroups | No | Yes |
| Used for item identification | Yes | Yes |
| Provides default item configuration | No | Yes |
Simple way to remember
Item Brand = Who makes it?
Item Group = What category does it belong to?
For example:
Dell Latitude 5440
Brand: Dell
Group: Electronics → Computers → Laptops
Type: Stock Part
Tip
Create an Item Brand once and reuse it across multiple items.
For example, instead of entering Dell manually for every Dell product, create the Dell brand and select it when creating each item. This keeps your item data consistent and makes brand information easier to manage.
To create the new Item Brand in Localizebook:
- Go to the Item menu.
- Click on Item Brand.
- Click on button +Add in the top-right of the page.
- Enter the basic information of the item brand.
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After filling all with your information:
- Save & New: Save the item brand and add another one.
- Save & Close: Save the item brand and close the window.
- Close: Close window without saving the item brand.