Group interchangeable products so a production run can pull any member when a recipe calls for one of them.
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You stock jasmine rice and basmati rice, and either one works in the same bowls. When a run calls for jasmine but the basmati lot is the one closest to its date, you don't want to stop and rewrite the recipe. Tell Bettr once that the two are a , and any run can pull whichever you have on hand. You build and manage them under Product groups.
Open Production → Product groups
In the top navigation, open Production and select Product groups. Grouping products is a production tool, so it sits under Production even though the products themselves live under Inventory.
Start a new group
Select New. The group belongs to your active company — the one shown in the top navigation.
Name the group for what its products share
Fill in Name with something that says why these products belong together — Rice Interchange for your swappable rices, say, or Asian Sauces.
Pick the products
Search by name or code, then check every product that belongs in the group. The count beside Products keeps a running tally as you go.
Create it
Select Create. The button stays off until you've checked at least one product — a group with nothing in it has nothing to interchange.
Every group you've made lists under Product groups, one row each. A row shows the group's name, how many products it holds, and the day you created it. Search by name to jump to one, and sort the list by name, by product count, or by when each group was created.
Open a group from the list to reopen the same form under Edit product group. Rename it, or check and uncheck products to change what's in the group, then Save. As with a new group, you can't save it empty.
To retire a group, use Delete product group in the Danger zone and confirm.
A deleted group is gone from lookups, but kept on the record
Deleting a group removes it from every list and picker, so no run will treat its products as interchangeable again. Bettr keeps the underlying record for audit — deletion is logged as an event, not erased — but there is no undo button, so rebuild the group by hand if you need it back.
A group's payoff shows up in Production runs. When a run consumes a recipe ingredient, it doesn't limit itself to the exact product the recipe names — it treats every other product in that product's group as a stand-in. A run that calls for jasmine rice can draw from your basmati lots too, as long as both sit in the same group.
That's why the groups you build here are worth keeping honest: put two products in a group only when they really are swappable in the recipes that use them.