The Shopping List helps plan your shopping by creating structured, itemized lists. Use it for family groceries, events, or any other occasion. Prioritize items, track progress, and share lists with others to coordinate easily. Family members can add their own items, so nothing gets missed.
Before proceeding, make sure you have reviewed Managing Asset.
You add shopping items in your list. Managing the shopping items are discussed here.
Update the Folder
You would want to organize the shopping list by occasions like Festival, Weekly and so on. Organizing by occasions is facilitated by having the shopping lists in different folders for different occasions. Initially, a shopping is created under the Default folder. To update the folder, follow this process:
Tap … to open folder browser and select the desired folder. Follow these steps:
Browse for folder
Tap ... to open the folder browser.
Select the desired folder
Select your folder. You can create a folder if it does not exists by taping + button.
The folder has been updated
You can see the updated folder in the Asset PropsAdding Shopping Items
Adding shoping item to a list can be tedious everytime you create a shopping list. Oddapy has several options to ease that process:
- Create and add new shopping items
- Select shopping items you previously created
- Copy from another another shopping list
When you shop regularly, like weekly, the recommended practice for using Oddapy Shopping List is as follows:
- Create a standard list of shopping items
- Create a few shopping lists and keep them as template
- Copy from the template shopping list
Create and add new shopping items
Open shopping item form
Select + Create new Shopping Item
Fill up the detaills
Only name is is required to create a shopping item. Populate the details and tap 🗸 to create the shopping item
New item added
The newly created shopping item is added to your listSelect from shopping item list
Follow these steps:
Open shopping item form
Tap on … to open the shopping item browser
Fill up the detaills
Select your desired items. You can search your item simply by typing in the item name. The selected items are shown at the bottom of the form. Tap 🗸 to add the items in your shopping list.
Selected items are added
Your selected items are added to your listCopy from another shopping list
Follow these steps:
Open shopping list browser
Select other shopping list
Select the shopping list to copy from
Select the shopping list to copy the item from. You can select only one shopping list here. Type in the search box if you have a many shopping list.
Shopping items are coppied
The shopping items from the selected list have been coppied.When you select shopping items or copy from another shopping list, the previously recorded quantity, rate, price, priority and note are copied to the current shopping shopping list. This is particularly useful if you shop routinely. You can edit the item details by taping any item.
Editing item details
Each shopping item has several useful fields:
- Priority: How critical the item is? Priorities are color coded and helps in easy identification during the shopping.
- Quantity: How mush do you want to buy?
- Unit of Measure (UoM): Unit of measure of the item such as kilogram, pound etc.
- Price per Unit: Record the price, later it will help you knowing the budget for the shopping, and
- Note: Any note you want to carry with the shopping list for each item. It can be specification for the item like the model number of a mobile device you want to purchase. Shop from where you want to buy the item. You can put any text note for the item.
Follow these steps to edit an item details:
Open the details form
Tap on any item to open the shopping item details edit form
Edit as required
All the fields are optional. You can edit any or all the fields
Save
Once you are done editing the details, tap 🗸 to save.Deleting shopping items
You can delete one or all item using the context menu. If you want to delete all items, select Delete all items from the following menu option:
To delete an individual item, select Delete from the item context menu:
How to Shop?
Ideally, you shold attach your shopping list to a calendar slot. When your shopping time arrives, the shopping list will available in the calendar slot viewer. Best practice would be to have repeating calendar slot for regular shopping trips (such as weekly grocery). You can add your shopping list using the calendar button at the top of the Asset Props.
When you in the storem, tap the following button:
Your shopping list asset will be converted into a list, perfect for the shopping time.
The details are now more visible and the list will look much cleanner. You can tap on any item to mark or unmark it as Completed. You can still edit or delete any item from the â‹® button.