I'm just setting up Repairshopr for a Bicycle workshop and I finding the set up categories not very intuitive and quite limited. With bikes unlike phones, a chain can be used on many different bikes. I would like to categorize my inventory into Groups and sub groups like Bikes, Frames, Components, Parts, Accessories, Apparel. on top of that for each category there are things like Brand, Type, model, Color, Then there's different categories of labor like Service packages, Ala Carte procedures, Bike fitting, Hourly, Clinics & consultations, warranty, etc.
Currently the tree group and sub group is isolated to that product. and has to be created for every product. A tag system like what Vend uses is much more user friendly.
Example: Shimano Chain 9 speed CN-HG93 116Links Zinc
This is a component of a bike, not a part. parts of a chain would be the links, or the connectors.
This component could be used on any 9 speed bike.
Ideally it would be categorized into the following category and sub categories or tags.

Q: What is it?
A: Chain

Overreaching category
Component: Chain
Tags
Brand: Shimano
Type: HG 9 speed
Model: CN-HG93
Colour: zinc
Type: 116 links

The current system is confusing and labor intensive and while I'm clear how to organize my inventory I'm not clear on how that is done in Repairshopr. It seems I have to set up many different sub tree categories for each product. Is that right?

This way I could search or create reports according to categories and or tags. Also a derailleur (a component) has many small parts that are brand specific and year specific. Such as cage, anchor bolt, main pivot bolt etc. All this has to be inventoried and reported on to keep adequate supply and turnover.
This small component and parts of components categorization of inventory is crucial to any workshop set up, maintenance and reporting.
Please consider this as since 2018 many systems have upgraded the way they do things and are a lot better at providing easy to use intuitive inventory systems

I'm giving this old thread a bump. I was just adding tempered glass screen protectors to inventory and have some which are for multiple phone models. It would be great to be able to assign the one inventory item to the specific categories. Right now I have all screen protectors in category 'iPhone (All)' and would love to put the 7/8 protectors into both 'iPhone 7' and 'iPhone 8', etc.

I second this. I think this would be a great idea. Tags or multiple categories as one product can fall under multiple different categories

And maybe the best case here isn't to change the categories, but to introduce "tags" like many other systems out there use. This would allow us to use categories for one type of organization such as for whether it is a part or service, and tags would more correspond to which units the part is compatible with,

I would love this. We have sensors that work in multiple units. Keeping inventory of these is a pain because if we make multiple SKUs the inventory won't track correctly. Our overall goal is to link categories of inventory items for repair to the Asset Type field somehow. I would be happy short term with a way to hold inventory items in Multiple Categories.