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More Class Codes Ideas

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Below is another sample major class code listing. As always, the organization of your own listing should reflect the relative importance of the various inventory types in your store and also the amount of detail you want in inventory and sales reports. A greater number of major class codes yields more specific reports but requires more effort in categorizing merchandise when it is entered into the computer.

You can have up to 999 major class codes, but that would be too many for most stores to keep track of. The sample below represents a quite detailed listing — you may prefer a simpler one. Be careful not to make the listing too simple though. Before computerizing, some store managers may have broken inventory down into just six or seven different categories. This may have been enough for manual systems, but to only use six or seven class codes with the Jewelry Shopkeeper would be a waste of its reporting power.

To make the classes easier to remember, you can also assign a mnemonic to each major class code number, such as GWR for Gents’ Wedding Rings.

Always try to leave gaps between major class codes to allow for future expansion. When a range of numbers is listed below, such as 001-039 for loose diamonds, it doesn’t mean that you have thirty-nine codes for diamonds it means you have reserved up to thirty-nine major class-codes for diamonds for future use even though you may only need four or even just one at the beginning.

NOTE: A new feature in Version 6.0 allows you to reassign class codes. For example if you had assigned Gents’ Wedding Rings to class codes 131, but later decide that you would prefer to use class code 145, all of the inventory in class 131 could be transferred to 145.

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Below are some sample minor class codes. Note that there may be some redundancy between the major and minor class codes. For example. You may have a specific earring category for 14 Karat gold earrings — so why have a minor class code for 14 Karat Gold? The reason is so that you could run a sales or inventory report for all the 14 Karat gold items, regardless of whether they are rings, bracelets, watches or earrings. You can have up to 1000 minor class codes, but that is probably far too many for most stores. The minor class codes do NOT have the option for an equivalent in alphabetical characters.

1 ______ Brass

2 ______ Gold Filled(overlay)

3 ______ Gold Plate

4 ______ Pewter

5 ______ Silver Plate

6 ______ Stainless Steel

7 ______ Sterling Silver

8 ______ Silver Vermeil

10 ______ 10 Karat Gold

12 ______ 12 Karat Gold

18 ______ 18 Karat Gold

22 ______ 22 Karat Gold

24 ______ 24 Karat Gold

26 ______ Platinum

30 ______ Lead Crystal

35 ______ Miscellaneous Metals

100 ______ Agate

105 ______ Alexandrite

110 ______ Amber

115 ______ Amethyst

120 ______ Andalusite

125 ______ Aquamarine

130 ______ Bloodstone

135 ______ Cameo

140 ______ Chrysoberyl

145 ______ Citrine

150 ______ Coral

155 ______ Cubic Zirconia

160 ______ Diamond

165 ______ Emerald

170 ______ Garnet

175 ______ Ivory

180 ______ Jade

185 ______ Kunzite

190 ______ Lapis

195 ______ Malachite

200 ______ Moonstone

205 ______ Onyx

210 ______ Opal

215 ______ Pearl

220 ______ Peridot

225 ______ Quartz

230 ______ Ruby

235 ______ Sapphire

240 ______ Sardonyx

245 ______ Spinel

250 ______ Tanzanite

255 ______ Tiger (cats) Eye

260 ______ Topaz

265 ______ Tourmaline

270 ______ Tsavorite

275 ______ Turquoise

280 ______ Zircon

300 ______ Misc. Colored Stones

800 ______ General Merchandise

900 ______ Labor Only

910 ______ Appraisal Only