What are Virtual Items?

Virtual Items are things you sell that you haven’t bought or assembled as stock to make available for sale. There are still availability/capacity constraints but they might not be as rigid and reconcilable as traditional inventory where you need to buy one widget for each one that you sell. Virtual Items begins to deal with question such as; How many Gym Memberships can I sell with my given infrastructure and staffing?

How can I use Virtual Items?

When you are in add or edit mode for an Item a check-box is available for you to set the Item as Virtual. This flags the Item in the database as potentially having behaviour different to normal inventory. This flag will be used in a future release which handles subscriptions, memberships in such away that you can manage the resources you need to provide these Items for sale.

Some potential examples of Virtual Items

• website hosting services
• trade show attendence
• school and education fees
• software-as-a-service subscriptions
• gym memberships