If you want some stock item sales to post to specific sales accounts and you want others to post to different sales accounts, then start by deciding what the criteria are for posting to different accounts and then determine how many different accounts you want to post to.

Let’s say an organization sells items they manufacture and items they purchase from wholesalers. They want to use Interface Codes so they can post the sales revenue to separate accounts to see what items are selling and bringing in the most money.

To do this, the organization would need two Interface Keys to apply to Inventory. They can use the IN Codes that are already attached to the stock items, or they can change them based on the Interface Code scheme they develop. See Defining Inventory Codes for information about the Codes.

Remember, the Interface Keys can be up to six alphanumeric characters and at least one character is required in every code in the first position. They also need Interface Keys for the other transaction variables, so they might end up with something like this: