# Product settings
This article describes all settings under the category Product in the Inventory module. The settings control how products, variants and serial number items behave in the stock and product screens in Sapera.
The settings are found under Setup in Financial. Navigate to Setup → Settings → Inventory → Product. If you cannot see the menu item, you probably do not have permissions for it. Contact support.
Note that setting names are shown in English in the user interface. In this article each setting name is given in Danish followed by the exact English name in parentheses, as it appears in Sapera.
Use Cost Price: Specifies whether Sapera should show and use cost price fields. Enable the setting so that cost price appears in product screens and orders. Disable it if the store does not use stock management or finance and wants a simpler user interface. The default is Yes.
Show Product cost price and profit by default: Determines whether cost price as well as contribution margin and margin rate (DB and DG) are shown automatically on the product page and on sales order/invoice. Set to No if only selected users may see these figures. The default is Yes.
Show Product instance cost price and profit by default: Corresponding setting for serial number items. Specifies whether cost price and contribution margin for a serial number item are shown by default on, for example, the product card and orders. The default is Yes.
Dg threshold in percents: A numeric threshold value for the margin rate. Products and sale lines that have a margin rate below this threshold are highlighted visually in product lists and on the Pos screen. The default is 0 (no highlighting).
Synchronize Default Cost Price across Organizational Units: If enabled, a change in the default cost price propagates to all stores in the chain instead of only the current stock unit. Relevant for chains with central purchasing. The setting cannot be overridden per store. The default is No.
Use latest stock addition in cost price calculation: Determines whether the cost price calculation is based on the most recently registered stock addition instead of the running average cost price. The default is Yes.
Support Product Variants: Determines whether Sapera supports product variants. Disable the setting if the store does not work with variants at all, to achieve a simpler user interface. The default is Yes.
Propose add created Product Variants to Stock/Label Drafts: When a new product variant is created, Sapera asks whether it should be added to an existing stock or label draft. Disable it if this suggestion is disruptive. The default is No.
Product variant selection mode: Controls how product variants are presented in the user interface when a user needs to select a variant. The options are Tiles (variants are shown as tiles — default) and Grid (variants are shown in a grid).
Support Product Instances: Determines whether Sapera supports product instances (serial number items). A serial number item is a specific, individually identified item — for example a machine, bicycle or trailer. Disable the setting if the store does not use serial number items, to hide related fields and give a simpler user interface. The default is Yes.
Propose add created Product Instances to Stock/Label Drafts: Corresponding to the variant-based setting above, but for serial number items. Sapera suggests adding newly created serial number items to existing drafts. The default is No.
Is the product instance serial number globally unique (i.e., not just unique per product): Specifies whether a serial number must be unique across all products — not just within the same base product. Set to Yes if it is a requirement that no two serial number items can ever have the same serial number regardless of base product. The setting cannot be overridden per store. The default is No.
Is the product instance registration number globally unique (i.e., not just unique per product): Corresponding setting for the registration number (for example a license plate on vehicles). Set to Yes if the registration number must be unique across all products. The setting cannot be overridden per store. The default is No.
Only show instance field in drop down: In lookup fields (drop-downs), this setting determines whether only information about the serial number item itself is shown, or whether the base product should also appear. The default is No (show both).
Support changing instance purchase price: Specifies whether a serial number item's purchase price can be edited after creation. Normally set to No, since changes in stock value should occur via stock drafts and invoices to keep finance and stock reconciled.
Is service mandatory on product instance: If enabled, a service call type must be selected when a serial number item is created. A service call type defines an automatic reminder sequence (for example SMS/email to the customer after 1 month, 3 months and so on). The default is No.
Support address on instance: Allows a physical address to be associated with a serial number item — for example the customer's installation address. The address can subsequently be used as the delivery address on sales orders. Disable the setting if all serial number items are always located in the store. The default is No.
Automatic product instance identifier prefix: Text that is automatically prepended to generated serial number item numbers. Example: with the prefix MASKINE, numbers will look like MASKINE0001. Can also be used to indicate in which store a serial number item was created, if each store uses a unique prefix. If the field is left empty, no prefix is added.
Filter product instances list by access to actual organizational unit by default: Specifies whether the serial number list by default only shows instances the user has access to in their current organizational unit (store/stock). The default is No (show all).
Filter product instances created in current organizational unit in product instance list by default: Specifies whether the serial number list by default only shows instances created in the current organizational unit. The default is No (show all).
Support Composed Products: Determines whether Sapera supports composed products (products that are composed of other products/components). Disable for a simpler user interface if the store does not work with this. The default is Yes.
Can generate product or variant identifier: Specifies whether Sapera can itself assign a new product number or variant number from a number series when a new product or variant is created. Set to No if the number should always be entered manually. The default is Yes.
Prefill main Product Supplier identifier with Product identifier: Determines whether the primary supplier's item number is automatically prefilled with the product's own item number at creation. The default is No.
Is Product Supplier required for product: Specifies whether it is mandatory to specify a supplier when a new product is created. The default is Yes.
Create product private for current stock organizational unit: Determines whether products created in a store are by default hidden from the other stores in the chain. If another store subsequently enters the same product number, Sapera asks whether the product should be activated there. The default is No (products are visible to the whole chain from creation).
Use additional product display name search: Sapera uses FULLTEXT search by default. This setting supplements with LIKE search, which finds products where the search term appears as part of a compound word in the display name — for example a search for "stål" will match "stålpløk". This gives better search results, but can result in marginally slower search. The default is No.
Treat numeric barcodes without prefix as product ids: Specifies whether numeric barcodes that do not contain a prefix are interpreted as product ids. This can give cleaner labels, since they do not need a prefix to identify the product. Conversely, it can create conflicts with other barcode types. The default is No.
Is Web Products Supported: Determines whether web-related fields and search tags are shown on the products. These fields are used for integration with a webshop. Only enable this setting if the store has webshop integration. The default is No.
Support Localization: Specifies whether product fields can be translated into multiple languages (localized display names, descriptions and so on). Enable if the store operates across language areas. The default is No.
Import Shadow Category: Specifies whether a product's category is automatically imported when the product is fetched in from the shadow catalog. The default is No.
Product Merge - Delete source product after merge: Determines whether the source product is deleted after two products are merged. The default is No (the source product is kept).
Limits products page size for POS sale screen: Specifies the maximum number of products shown per page in the product tabs on the Pos screen. A lower number gives better performance. The default is 30.
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