By linking materials to specific products or combining them into packages, you reduce the chance of something being forgotten. In this article, we explain how you can link materials so that they are automatically included in your materials list.
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You can link a material directly to a food or non-food product in the range. For example, you could link a soup bowl to the dish tomato soup, or a gas bottle to the material gas BBQ. You can do this as follows:
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1. Open the product in the Assortment to which you want to link a material

2. Scroll to Link materials:

3. Here, add a non-food product from your assortment to Search material (click). Then save the changes.
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Tip!

If you do not yet have any materials (non-food) in Catermonkey, you can also import them all at once. To do this, click on Import materials and type in the material you want to import per line.
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Click on Import materials and save your changes.
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You can also add materials to an existing package (menu).
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1. Open the package in the Assortment to which you want to add a material.

2. Click on products in this package.

3. Add a title, for example "Materials", and press enter.

4. Below, add the materials that belong to the package.

To hide the materials from the customer's quotation, click on the eye icon for each material to hide it:
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5. Save the changes.
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You can also lock the quantity of a material. You can do this using the lock icon next to the quantity (you will see this when you hover your mouse over it).

This means that large materials, such as an oven or BBQ, will only appear once on the materials list. If the padlock is not used, the quantity of these materials will be multiplied by the quantity specified in the order or quotation, just as with a package.
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Would you like your materials to be neatly organised in the material list, instead of everything being listed under 'uncategorised'? Then read the article below:
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Do you have any questions about this? Feel free to contact us!
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Kind regards,
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The Catermonkey Team 🍌
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