How can I add the purchase price of an object in Jira Assets?

[Markus Windisch]

A crucial aspect of my asset management involves calculating costs for goods that I sell to customers. I need to include the purchase price of the goods to the objects, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this (especially in European format). Additionally, I'm unable to export the lists to, for example, total up the sold goods.

Is there a way to accomplish this with Jira Assets?

Thanks for your assistance!

[Kevin Patterson]

Hi @Markus Windisch ,

capturing the costs for ordered goods and calculating totals for an order should not be a problem. For your object attribute I would recommend using Float for your Purchase price and total order price field type. This field allows decimals unlike the integer field type. Automation for Jira can do calculations off of these values and update other asset objects and attributes if required.

Assets does have an export feature under bulk options that will allow you to export an object type and all the objects.

It might be helpful to understand how you are planning on using assets as part of your workflow. I suspect exporting lists is not really what you want, but instead you might be looking for a way to display a customer order with all assets associated to the order as line items.  

[Markus Windisch]

Hi @Kevin Patterson , thanks for your response, it sounds promising.

I plan to use assets mainly as an inventory system for software services (subscriptions), employee hardware, office equipment, and the goods we sell to customers. The purchase price helps me track the total value of my inventory. It would be fantastic to have an automated calculation of this, visible somewhere within the assets. My accounting team also requires a report on what we’ve sold to customers, so the Excel export feature is really useful.

I'm not sure how to implement the automated calculation yet. It would also be great if I could filter by categories like PCs, laptops, phones, etc.