Consumables - Tracking Data & Costs

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Has anyone found a way to use Sage Account US to track consumables?  I'm specifically looking to track the purchase history and costs for consumable materials involved in our processing, such as polishing compounds, paint, etc.  I thought to use the "non-stock item" category of managing inventory, but that does not track the purchase history in the item history, just assigns the correct GL codes when purchasing. I'm hoping someone else with the same issue has found a work-around?

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    Hi

    Thanks for reaching out. Did you ever find an answer for this issue? Here's an article that says:

    "When creating a purchases invoice, the default Ledger Account used is 5000 - cost of Sales goods, but you can select 5010- cost of sales material or 7100 rent and rates , 7200 Gas and electrics etc, according to your needs."

    You may want to come up with amounts per pound of non-stock supplies that get consumed during processing that are then billed on an invoice as a line item to the 5010-cost of sales material account; that or if when filling out an invoice  "If you select the template "Service-based", the following only is displayed: Item ​Description, Tax, Net amount.

    If you are still looking for guidance, please let us know and we can try to point you in the right direction or suggest some resources or next steps.

    Warm Regards,

    Erzsi

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    You might use Job Cost to collect all transactions belonging to a "project".