2024-10 | Subcontainers: Structure Your Containers with Subcategories

Create subcategories for your containers, for a more precise and powerful structure

📲 What's New?

At Timly, empowering your inventory management is what we’re all about. To make things even easier, we’re excited to introduce subcontainers—a powerful new feature that lets you create subcategories for your containers.

A quick refresher: In Timly, containers help you group and organize your assets. Whether it’s locations (“Building,” “Room”) or categories like “Purchase Requests,” containers are fully customizable digital structures designed to fit your unique business needs.

With subcontainers, you can now take your container system to the next level, creating an even more efficient and modular way to organize your assets within Timly.

🎯 Key Benefits

Streamlined Overview: Easily decide which assets to display by filtering the subcontainers shown in your container overview page.
Enhanced Structure: Visualize relationships between containers using a clear tree structure, giving you better oversight at a glance.
Customizable Structure: Adapt and adjust subcontainers to meet your organization’s specific needs.
Visual Clarity: Quickly pinpoint where assets are assigned, down to the exact subcontainer.
Optimized Assignment: Improve your asset allocation with a more streamlined assignment process.

💡 Why Is This Important?

Subcontainers give you the flexibility to build a structure tailored to your organization, no matter how complex or simple. Here’s why they make such a difference:

Clarity for Complex Structures: Businesses with multiple containers (e.g., several “Rooms” across different buildings) can now organize and differentiate them more effectively.
Hierarchical Organization: Subcontainers create a tree structure that adds layers of organization, making it easier to navigate and manage your assets.
Efficiency at Scale: Spend less time sorting through assets and focus on what really matters.

💡 Need help setting up your structure? Our Account Managers are here to guide you every step of the way.

⚙️ How Does It Work?

In the main menu on the left, click on "Settings", then "Containers".
Click on the container type to which you want to add a subcontainer.
Then click the "+" icon, and enter the name you want to assign to this subcontainer.
Choose the subcontainer level that you want to assign this to and click "Create".
Add as many subcontainer levels as your structure requires.

📚 More Resources

Help Center: Restrict Containers to Specific Asset Locations
Help Center: Set Minimum Stock Levels for Containers
Help Center: Fast Check-Outs with Barcode Scanning for Containers