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How To Set Up Retail Stock

Learn how to set up your retail stock management within ANS

Updated over 6 months ago

This article will talk you through how to set up your retail stock within your Aesthetic Nurse Software.

Our stock section allows you to keep an eye on the levels of stock that you have for your retails products in your clinic. You can add extra stock to this section and products automatically deduct when added to an invoice in ANS.

To learn how to set up our retail stock section, watch our short video below. Alternatively, follow our simple steps.


Retail Stock

First you will need to set up your retail products within your account for the stock management section and also to be able to sell them within ANS.

Step 1 :

From the main menu, head to settings.


Step 2 :

Once in settings, head to treatment products under the heading products.

Step 3 :

This section will hold all of your retail products to add a new product, select the new retail product button.

If you need to edit a retail product that is already on your software head into the brand and select the pencil icon.

Step 4 :

You then have the brand box, where you can choose a brand from the drop down. Alternatively, if you need to add a new brand into this sectin you can free type in the top box and select enter to add the new category.


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You must select the ENTER button to save your new brand into the software.

Step 5 :

You can then name your specific product you are looking to sell within ANS and add the cost to the patient for this purchase.

Step 6 :

You then have the option to enable a repurchase reminder. This is set by your product interval for how often a patient should be buying the product.

To learn how to set up your repurchase reminders within ANS follow our specific guide for more information.

Step 7 :

You also have the option to recieve a notification when your running low on this product. In the stock control just pop the amount you would like to recieve the notification at and tick to recieve the email notification.

If you do not want to recieve a notification for the stock level this section can be left blank.

Step 8 :

Once happy, hit save and this will add the new category and retail product.


Managing Retail Stock Levels

Once you have added all of your retail products to your software you will be able to add how much stock you have of each item to the software.

Step 9 :

Head back into settings and to the stock section under the heading products.

Step 10 :

This will show you all the retail products you have saved alongside any treatment products you have marked that you would like to control stock for.

If you are missing any treatment products within this section you just need to make sure you have filled in the stock control section in the treatment product settings.

Step 11 :

In each brand it will show the individual products and if you are low in stock this will state next to the product.

Step 12 :

To then start adding your stock levels for your retail products you will need to select the add or deduct stock option.

Step 13 :

You will need to then state that this stock is for a retail product.

Step 14 :

Then you can choose to assign the stock to a clinic.

If float is selected, this will be products which are not sold in a specific clinic.

Step 15:

The select the retail product you are adding stock for and the amount of stock you are adding.

Step 16 :

To then add another retail product and stock, choose the add another product button and preat the process again.Then when happy with your list hit save changes.

Step 17 :

This will then update your stock levels on your list of products. The amount of stock will then deduct once products are added to the invoices of your patients appointments.

If you have set a reminder to be recieved once this stock hits the low stock level this will send once you have met this mark again.


For further information about our stock management section, visit our additional guides.

Additionally, to help you fully utilise and understadn your Aesthetic Nurse Software, we do offer 1-1 support zoom calls which can be booked here : Book a zoom call

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