Kits and packages: which to use, and Build more like this

Kit or package?

• Kit: a product with its own SKU, made of component products. It sells as one line at its own price, and selling it uses the parts' stock (or the kit's own boxed stock). Use it for anything you pick and ship as one item. See Kits & BOM→.
• Package: a curated set of products and labour (a lift kit fitted, a service package). It expands onto a quote as its separate lines, with optional extras and choices the customer can tick. See Packages→.

Use these for anything you sell repeatedly as a combination: pricing stays consistent and quoting takes seconds.

Build more like this

Open a kit or package and click Build more like this to make the same kit for other vehicles:

1. Tick the vehicles your kit's main part comes in (found from your catalogue's fitment), or add any make, model and years. You can do up to six at a time.
2. Click Build N kits. The assistant swaps the vehicle-specific parts for their equivalents from your catalogue and keeps services and freight. Each line shows its reasoning and how confident it is; lines worth checking are marked.
3. Review each card. Tick or untick lines, change quantities, pick an alternative, and adjust the name, SKU and price. Then click Create kit / Create package, or Create all. The price keeps the original kit's relationship to its RRP.

Nothing is created until you click Create. If a vehicle needs a part your catalogue doesn't have, its card says Can't be built from the catalogue and what to source.

Fitting hours

The fitting time is never copied from the kit you started with: how long the Chev part takes says nothing about the Ram part replacing it. Each part is costed from, in order:

1. Labour Hours (to fit) on the product, if you have set one.
2. The manufacturer's published install time for that part on that vehicle, looked up on the web, with a link to the page it came from.
3. The original kit's hours, flagged for you to check, only if neither of the first two exists.

Every line says which of the three it used, and you can type over the hours before creating.

A package charges its fitting on the part that needs fitting, so it expands onto a quote as "LABOUR — <part>" and has no separate labour line. A kit sells as one line at its own price, so it keeps a single labour line, worked out from the parts going into it.

If a kit ends up with both (a part carrying its own fitting time and a labour line), the kit page warns The fitting time is recorded twice here, because the two say the same thing and whichever you read is the one you'll act on. Clear whichever one isn't what you bill.