.. _setup:

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WARES Setup Overview
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A company is a single warehouse business which stores and manages goods for 
multiple accounts kept in one or more buildings. Use **Company** selections to 
setup information about a warehouse company, its accounts, and its products.

Warehousing Company
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Each instance of WARES is used by one warehousing company. The identifier and 
contact information for the warehouse is displayed in this form, along with 
control data for the :ref:`company`. 

Facilities and Locations
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A warehouse company is responsible for goods under management in buildings or 
facilities and locations within and around them. Information to describe these 
buildings and locations is entered in :ref:`locations`.

Program User Management
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:ref:`users` in this section of company setup. Users may be restricted to
viewing information for specific customer accounts, or to performing specific 
functions, depending on their role.

Services Code Setup
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WARES provides a default set of services billing codes, but these codes may be 
changed or extended with options on this page. Click this link to see the 
:ref:`services`.


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Related Setup Sections
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Customer Accounts
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For private warehousing, accounts might be departments or divisions in the 
company ledgers. Public warehouses use one or more unique :ref:`accounts` for 
each warehouse customer. 

Contacts and Addresses
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Address information is collected in a single table of :ref:`contacts`. Before 
an address identifier can be used in Company Setup or elsewhere in WARES, the
contact or address must first be entered here.

Inventory Products
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Each of the :ref:`products` in the warehouse belongs to an account, and each 
product or variety of good stored for an account is described with a product 
record.

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.. note::
   Setup of billing information for third-party warehousing is included in the 
   billing selections. The rates for billing should be moved to Accounts.

.. note::
   http://newwares.aaltsys.com displays a preliminary version of the webWARES 
   program. This is not intended as a completed application. Rather, it is a 
   starting point for alpha-testing program design.