Usage Notes for Item Record Types
Note the following when working with item record types:
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Items are the goods and services you sell to customers, and the parts and raw materials you purchase from vendors. They can also include line items on sales and purchase forms, such as discounts and miscellaneous charges.
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Depending on the features enabled for the account specified during the login call, some item types may not be available.
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Setting the item base price will auto-calculate other pricing levels. For more information on setting item prices, see Item Pricing in the NetSuite Help Center.
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To make an item featured, you must set the item category to the Home tab in the NetSuite UI.
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The countryofmanufacture field for an item must be a country covered by FedEx or UPS.
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All item records are defined in the listAcct (accounting) XSD.
Working with Costing Methods
As of the 2013.1 endpoint, the costingMethod field was added to Lot Numbered Assembly Item, Lot Numbered Inventory Item, Serialized Assembly Item, and Serialized Inventory Item. This field is not mandatory for the add operation. Its value defaults to lot numbered for lot numbered items, and to specific for serialized items.
This field becomes read-only after it is set, so it is only used for add and advanced search operations. Note that this field is not returned in get and basic search operations. Instead, the read-only field costingMethodDisplay is returned. When this field is used as a result column in advanced search operations, it returns different values for the 2013.1 endpoint than in earlier endpoints. Before, the return value for lot numbered items was fifo, and the returned value for assembly items was lifo. Now the return value for lot numbered items is lot numbered and the return value for serialized items is specific.