Your material library - how to organize, configure, and browse materials, including direct access to Ferguson's full product catalog.

Catalog

Learn the difference between your Catalog and your Stock, and understand what information lives in each one.

SureStock: Catalog vs. Stock

A breakdown of the different cost types in SureStock, what each one means, how to set them up, and how they relate to one another.

SureStock Cost Types Explained: Client Cost, Business Cost & Supplier Price

Learn the difference between Materials and Consumables in SureStock, and how each one affects inventory tracking and job costing.

Materials or Consumables in SureStock? How to Choose the Right Type

Understanding the SureStock Catalog

The Ply Library gives you direct access to Ferguson's full product catalog from within SureStock. This is where you can browse and add Ferguson materials to your own catalog.

Browsing Ferguson's Catalog with Ply Library

The core concepts for understanding how the catalog works in SureStock: the difference between catalog and stock, which item type to create (material vs. consumable), and how the different cost types work.

Catalog Fundamentals

Learn what custom fields are in SureStock and how to create and use them to track extra item details beyond the standard fields

Adding Custom Fields to Materials in SureStock

Learn the difference between Tags, Categories, and Folders in SureStock, and how each one helps you organize your materials.

Folders vs. Tags vs. Categories in SureStock: When to Use Each

How to structure the catalog so it's easy to navigate: when to use folders, tags, or categories, and how to add custom fields to track business-specific info.

Organization & Structure

Deleting items in bulk simplifies catalog management; select a few, a whole page, or your entire catalog at once.

Bulk Deleting Materials from Your SureStock Catalog

If items were set up as the wrong type (consumables that should've been materials, materials that are really tools) you can reclassify them in bulk instead of recreating each one…

How to Convert Items in SureStock

Deactivate materials you no longer need instead of deleting them, keep your catalog clean while preserving history and traceability, with the option to restore anytime.

How to Deactivate a Material in SureStock

SureStock requires item numbers to be unique across your catalog, so no two materials can share the same one.

Fixing the 'Item Number Already Exists' Error in SureStock

Learn what equipment is in SureStock, how it differs from materials, and how to create a new equipment item step by step.

Creating Equipment in SureStock

Learn how to merge duplicate materials in SureStock by transferring info to one record and removing the other.

How to Merge Materials in SureStock

Step-by-step instructions for printing barcodes from the SureStock web app or mobile app.

Printing Barcodes in SureStock

Give materials a home base before they leave the warehouse and make sure nobody else picks them up first.

Setting Up Staging Areas for On-Hold Materials in SureStock

Learn how to scan a receipt in SureStock to quickly add materials and inventory to a job or location, right from your phone or computer.

How to Scan a Receipt to Add Inventory in SureStock

Day-to-day catalog maintenance: creating, merging, converting, deactivating, or deleting materials, and how to fix common errors when loading items.

Managing Materials

Learn how to create and manage kits to bundle multiple materials or tools into a single package for easier ordering and distribution.

Bundling materials into Kits in SureStock

Learn how to create and manage variants in SureStock to offer multiple options, like size or color, for a single item under one main product.

Setting Up Product Variants in SureStock

Understand how SureStock tracks inventory that was purchased at different prices, and choose how that cost shows up in your catalog.

Cost Layers in SureStock

Set up custom units of measurement for your materials (like each, box, or pallet), and use Multi UoM to define conversions between them, so you can, for example, order in…

Setting Up Multi UoM Conversions in SureStock

More advanced functionality for complex catalogs: product variants, kits, unit of measure conversions, and cost layer management.

Advanced Configuration

Export your full catalog from SureStock and organize it by location using a spreadsheet, helpful for reviewing inventory by warehouse, sharing clean data with your team, or building custom reports.

Breaking Down Your SureStock Catalog Export by Location

Learn how to quickly export your SureStock catalog to an Excel file, making it easy to manage and analyze your data

Exporting Your Full Catalog from SureStock to Excel

How to pull catalog data into Excel, either in full or broken down by location, for analysis or reporting.

Exporting Data

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