WISK.ai

Nick Neale

How to view and manage your venue's items

Items

How to add/create a new item in your venue

Adding an Item to your Venue

How to bulk upload your list of items to add or update them using our template

Uploading/Importing Items to Your Venue

How to add a beer keg to your venue and add weights if using a freight/shipping scale during inventory.

Adding Beer Kegs

Adding Items

How to add the cost per unit or case to the items in your venue

Adding Item Costs

How to keep track of and review any new items added to your venue

Tracking New / Recently Added Items

You can view an item's invoice history to see how its price has changed over time

View an Item's Cost / Price History

How to see the latest cost changes of your items

Viewing Cost Changes

If you need to update the details of an item, you can edit it on the WISK Web Portal or mobile app

How to Edit an Item

How to change an item's size - either the unit of measurement or the quantity

Changing an Item's Measurement / Size

How to remove an item from your venue's Items if you no longer carry it

How to Delete / Archive an Item

Easily add or update existing images of your venue's items

How to Add / Replace an Item Image

How to bring back any items that you have archived in your venue

Restoring/Unarchiving an Item

How to combine items if you have duplicates in your venue's list of items

How to Merge Duplicate Items

How to create a new item from an existing item in your venue

Cloning an Item

How to update a full or empty weight of an item

How to Add/Remove an Item Weight

How to assign Par Levels to your items to speed up the ordering process

Adding Par Levels

WISK calculates recommended pars for each item based on your usage / consumption over time

What is WISK Par?

How to view and set your ideal stock days. Ideal stock days can be set for the venue and individual distributors

Ideal Stock Days

How to switch an ingredient for another across all POS Items and Batches it appears in

Swapping an Item / Ingredient

Changing an Item's Case Size

You can create allergen tags and add them to your Food inventory items. Each recipe will have a list of allergens based on the items used.

WISK Restaurant - Allergen Tags on Items

Managing Items

How to create and inventory your pre-mixed cocktails (also known as batches)

Creating Batched Drinks

How to use batches in POS Mapping, and how they appear on the Variance

Batches - POS Item Mapping & Variance

Batched Items

An explanation of item Families and Categories and how to view them

What are Families & Categories?

How to add a family or category to your venue

Adding a Family / Category

How to edit a family or category in your venue

Editing a Family / Category

How to delete/archive a family or category in your venue

Deleting a Family / Category

Families & Categories

An explanation of item variations and examples for both WISK Restaurant and WISK Bar

What are Item Variations?

An overview of the various ways to create item variations for your existing items

Creating an Item Variation

How to group identical items in your venue together to create item variations

Grouping Items (For Item Variations)

If you have items with variations, you must select a default for inventory and par levels

What are Default Item Variations?

How to count item variations when taking inventory

Inventorying / Counting Item Variations

Each item variation can be ordered separately from its assigned distributor / supplier.

Ordering Item Variations

How to compare the costs of items that have multiple variations

Comparing Item Variation Costs

Item Variations

An explanation of the three measurement types (volume, weight, unit/each), and the units of measurement available.

Units of Measurement

Tips to maintain the accuracy of your account data over time

Account Data Cleanup Tips

An explanation of Weighted Average Pricing and how to toggle it on or off in your venue

Weighted Average Pricing

The difference between "Stock" and "Real Time Stock"

Stock vs Real Time Stock

How to set email notifications for when items are low on stock

Stock Alerts

What are custom fields, and how to add / manage them in your account

Custom Fields

You can download/export/print your complete item list, or a custom/filtered subset from the WISK Web Portal

How to Download/Export Your Item List

On most pages of the WISK Web Portal, you can switch between preset reporting views and create and customize your own

Customizing Your Web Display / Adding Report Views

How to mark an item as “Receive only” so it can’t be ordered

Marking an Item as Receive Only

How to set alerts and receive notifications when an item cost goes above a set level