Categorizing STORE-OWNED Inventory

[greengoose]

I posted this question in another category and received no replies. Hopefully someone will notice it and reply here......

Is there a way to categorize STORE-OWNED inventory?
Example: The store pays one lump-sum for the contents of an entire estate. How can I "code" each item in order to track COG/P&L categorized by each estate? Currently, I have ONE store account (consignor number.) Should I and can I setup more than one store account?

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[tarabornagain]

I've actually given this a couple days' thought since I saw your original post the other day. I did have some ideas, but all are cumbersome. It seems like the easiest, most efficient way would be to create a new consignor account for each estate.

It's kind of a bummer in that once all the items from that estate are sold/moved out of inventory, the consignor account will remain in there. But the only other way I can think of is to create a department for each estate and that would be much more of a headache and mess with your store's categorization and organization.

[faye]

When we BOR, set a buy outright as the person name or estate name and tag under that name however that name gets 0% and the store gets 100% when sold. Then you can see on the item list how items from this estate is selling. Had to ask Allison