Overview

Components represent the raw materials, services, and supplies used to create your products. The goal of components is to build a knowledge base of everything that goes into your products, then leverage that information for accurate pricing and cost of goods sold (COGS) calculations.

Add a Component

Go to Inventory > Components and click + Add Component. Fill in the details:

Component Name (required) — A descriptive name
Category (required) — The type of component (e.g., Metal, Stone, Packaging). Type a new one or pick one you've used
Material Type — The specific material (e.g., 14k Gold, Sterling Silver)
Supplier — Where you source this component
Unit Cost — What one unit costs you. A "unit" is whatever makes sense (a gram, a carat, an inch, a piece). When you add the component to a product, you say how many units it uses, and AMS works out Unit Cost × units.
Stock Qty — How many you have on hand
Allow negative stock — Tick to let the count go below zero
SKU and Supplier Order No. — Your part number and the supplier's, for reordering
Color, Cut, Size/Gauge, Weight — Additional metadata fields for detailed tracking
Website Link — URL for the supplier or product page
Description — A detailed description of the component
Notes — Internal notes for your reference

Cost Per Unit

Components are priced by their unit of measurement. This makes it flexible for different kinds of materials and easy to use with products that consume varying amounts. Examples:

Gold could be priced per gram
Precious stones could be priced per carat
Painting services could be priced per inch
Packaging materials could be priced as all materials used to ship one product unit

Component Table

The components table displays all your active components with columns for Name, SKU, Category, Material Type, Supplier, Unit Cost, Stock Qty, Size/Gauge, Color, Cut, Weight, Description, Website, Supplier Order No., Notes, Created, and Status.

Filtering & Sorting

Click the sliders button (Filters and columns) next to the search box to filter by Category, Material, Supplier, Color, Cut, Size/Gauge or Weight. Active filters show as chips you can clear. Click any column header to sort ascending or descending.

Column Visibility

Use the same sliders button to show or hide columns. Your preferences are saved automatically and persist across sessions.

Export

Click Export to save the components you're viewing (with your filters) as a spreadsheet file.

Details & Edit

Each row's three-dot menu has:

View Details — opens the component's page, with its details and an image. Click Edit Component there to make changes.
Edit — change it without leaving the table.

You can also click some cells in the table to edit them right there.

Component page

Open a component (row menu > View Details) to see everything about it in one place:

Details — only the fields you've filled in, like Supplier, Unit Cost and Stock Qty
Image — if you've added one
Products Using This Component — each product that uses it, how many it takes, and the cost
Buildable — how many of that product you could still make from the components you have. "off" means Auto-Consume on Sale is turned off for that product (see below). "—" means there's no count yet.

Use ← Previous and Next → to step through your components in A to Z order. Click Edit Component to change details, or use its Image tab to add a photo (JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF, up to 10MB).

Component Products

Pick Component Products from a row's three-dot menu to see every product that uses this component. This helps you understand the impact of price changes. The product list can be exported to CSV.

Auto-Consume on Sale

When a product has Auto-Stock turned on and uses this component, selling that product will automatically subtract the component quantity defined on the product from this component's on-hand stock.

Example: a Necklace product uses 1 Chain and 2 Charms. With Auto-Stock on, selling 1 Necklace decreases Chain by 1 and Charms by 2 with no extra steps.

In Inventory > Stock Management, the Components tab shows the resulting buildable count for every auto-stock product that uses each component, color-coded by tier so you can quickly spot which component is the bottleneck.

Bulk Upload

Click Bulk Upload to import multiple components at once from a CSV file. Download the template to get started — it includes all 16 component fields with instructions. Only Name is required. AMS checks your data for errors before importing and flags similar values in autocomplete fields (Category, Material Type, Color, Size/Gauge, Cut, Weight, Supplier) to prevent duplicates. See the Bulk Upload guide under Getting Started for full details.

Copy & Add

Select Copy & Add from the row action menu to create a new component with the same field values as the selected one. This is useful for adding variations of existing components (e.g., the same stone in a different size). The original component is left unchanged.

Set Inactive

Components cannot be permanently deleted. Instead, they can be set to inactive by selecting Set Inactive from the row action menu. Inactive components are hidden from the default table view but can still be found by switching the status filter. To bring a component back, find it in the inactive view and select Reactivate.