FAQ: What is the difference between product tags and product types?

A product tag is an organizational label used to group products within your Vetspire Inventory for searching, filtering, and sorting. Product tags also determine the order in which products appear in search results when adding an item to an invoice.

Product tags do not have the same purpose as revenue centers, which are used as financial buckets for reporting. Additionally, product tags do not affect reminder protocol logic or inventory tracking.

A product type is a functional classification that tells Vetspire how a product behaves in the system. The product type settings determine how reminder protocols are generated, how stock counts are deducted, required data (such as instructions and dosing for medication products), and how the product displays in encounters, NOVASheets, and Patient Chart.

Quick Analogy

If a product in Vetspire were a book in a library:

• The revenue center is the bookshelf section. The product’s assigned revenue center tells Financials where the revenue belongs.

• The product tag is a categorizing sticker (“fiction,” “poetry,” “new release,” etc.).

• The product type determines how the book is used – whether it’s a hardcover, eBook, or audiobook.