For item classification purposes, we recommend adding all your item brands into Lightspeed Retail. By doing so, you can run a Brand Grouped Sales Total report to view sales by brand.
You can add brands:
- from your account's Brands section.
- from an item's Brand drop-down.
- from a matrix's Brand drop-down.
- through the Item Import tool.
By importing items into your account and including their brands, the brands are also automatically added to the Inventory > Brands section of your account.
When adding a brand, be aware that the following rules apply when entering a name:
- Brand names must contain a maximum of 255 characters.
- UTF-8 characters are supported (click here for a list)
- Retail does a case insensitive search of the name to avoid duplicates (e.g. If Lightspeed already exists, LIGHTSPEED or lightspeed can't be added).
- Leading and trailing whitespace in a name are removed.
NOTE: If you have an eCom store, see our Managing product brands in eCom article to understand how brands in Retail are pushed to eCom.
Adding a brand from the Brands section
- From the main menu, click Inventory > Brand > + New Brand.
- Enter the brand name and click Save Changes.
Once you've added your brands, you can click the column headers in Settings > Brands to sort them by:
- name
- the number of items associated to the brands
Adding a brand from an item's Brand drop-down
- From the main menu, click Inventory > Item Search.
- Enter your item's description and click Search.
- Locate and click your item.
- From the Brand drop-down, enter the brand name.
NOTE: If the brand name already exists, the brand will appear in the drop-down's search results.
- Click the blue + icon to add the brand.
- Click Save Changes.
Adding a brand from an matrix's Brand drop-down
- From the main menu, click Inventory > Matrix.
- Enter your matrix's description and click Search.
NOTE: If you are adding a new matrix, click + New Matrix and skip to step 4.
- Locate and click your matrix.
- From the Brand drop-down, enter the brand name.
NOTE: If the brand name already exists, the brand will appear in the drop-down's search results.
- Click the blue + icon to add the brand.
- Click Save Changes.