Category Structure in SAM

Categories in SAM are structured around Inventory types. There are four broad Inventory types: Artwork, Edition, Product and Other. 

SAM organises the 4 Inventory types into Parent Categories. These are shared across each Art Centre. 

Beneath Parent Categories are Subcategories. These are unique to your Art Centre. 

Some Parent Categories are seen across the 4 Inventory Types. For example, Jewellery is a Parent Category in both Artwork and Product. This allows the Art Centre to either catalogue a unique item as an Artwork, or set Jewellery items up as Products if this is more suitable for inventory management. 

Navigating Categories SAM 

There are two Category views: 

• List view 
• Detailed view

List View

From List view, you can see the Parent Categories under Category Name and Inventory Type under Type. 

To see your Subcategories, you need to click into the Detailed view, 
 

Detailed View

Clicking into a Parent Category from the List view takes you to a Detailed view of the Parent Category. 

Here, you can set the Commission rate, Purchase rate, apply GST, Account/job codes and add Mediums. 

Subcategories

Beneath the Parent Category sits the Sub-categories. 

These are unique to your Art Centre and can be set up by Managers. 

Each Sub-category can be set up with Art Centre Commission rate and Artist Purchase rates specific to the Sub-category.