Create a product in Fred NXT Head Office

Inventory and Purchasing

There are two ways to create products in Fred NXT Head Office: (a) Products can be created from AppCAT. In this case, you need to ensure that your vendor is subscribed to the AppCAT vendor catalogue, so that you can view the available products and create them at your store; (b) Alternatively, you can import a spreadsheet (.CSV file format only) using the Data Import/Export Framework (DIEF).

  1. Under Inventory and purchasing on the Fred NXT Head Office Dashboard, click AppCAT, then Catalogue.
  2. Click to select the relevant Vendor.
  3. From the Catalogue tab, click Subscribe.

    The AppCAT Catalogue will be downloaded the next time this batch job is configured to run. Usually, this is set to run overnight and will be available the next day.

  1. Under Inventory and Purchasing on the AX Dashboard, click AppCAT, then Products.
  2. Check the products you wish to create.

    Products without an Item Number are not yet in your system. To find a specific product or range, use CTRL+G and apply a search filter. Alternatively, tap the columns to sort the cells with empty values at the top.

  3. From the Products tab, click Create Products.
  4. Review the product information and update the details if required.

    Some details are set by default, based on your organisation's standard configurations. This can be changed as required.

    If you wish to apply a change to the group of products in bulk, enter the detail in the first row, then tap Paste First Row to apply the value to all the other displayed rows.

  5. Click Create to create the product in Fred NXT Head Office.

Your spreadsheet must be in .CSV format to import into Fred NXT Head Office. If you are using this process to update products, you must supply values for ALL the fields, as the process will override details in your system. Blank fields in the spreadsheet will lead to blank data in Fred NXT Head Office).

  1. Under Data Import Export Framework or Data Sync, click Processing Group.
  2. Click GroupsProducts, then Get staging data.
  3. Click OK.
  4. Click Folder icon to browse and select the file for import.

    The .CSV import file is now staged.

  5. (Optional) Tap Preview, then Details to view the import file.
  6. When ready, tap Run.
  7. Select the Batch Group.

    It is best to run this process as a batch, otherwise you may be locked out of the client until this process is performed.

    A prompt is displayed when the process is completed.

  8. Click Close.
  9. Click Copy data to target menu.
  10. Select the Job ID and click OK to import the data.
  11. At the completion prompt, click Close.
  12. Click Execution History to view the details of the jobs, including the Info log with error messages.

    You can right-click the error messages to copy the detailed contents to the clipboard, then paste into another document (for example, Notepad) for further analysis.

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