Enabling item types, inventory management options, and so on
Starting from your client's requirements (which you should have already gathered, as described in Chapter 7, Getting to Know the Organization's Customers, Other Entities, and Items), you can now go into their account and start to enable the Item and Inventory features they need. We do this via the Enable Features screen, which can be found via Setup | Company | Enable Features. You should have previously visited this screen with the client to make basic system-wide choices and to set up the accounting features. Now, you can use the General tab to make choices that will affect the business' use of items, such as whether they need the Multiple Units of Measure and Multiple Currencies features. Then, visit the Items and Inventory tab to make further configuration choices.
There are approximately 40 choices on this screen, so we won't cover them all, but it's important to carefully consider each of...