With article shares you make your own articles available to other companies – for example a partner who sells your goods on a consignment basis. For every shared article you decide how much stock you keep for yourself, whether the share is active and at which price each partner gets the article.

The other way round, **All approvals** (*Alle Freigaben*) shows you the articles that connected companies have shared with you, together with their available stock and price.

![Screenshot: Menu "Catalogue › Product approvals" opened with the entries "Your own approvals" and "All approvals"](/products/images/article-shares-menu.png)

## Before you start

- Your user needs the permission for article shares; to change a share, also the permission to edit shares (both in the *Products* section of the rights tree) – ask your administrator.
- The partner connection between your company and the other company must exist. It is set up by X-Sitter – contact X-Sitter support if you want to start sharing articles with a partner.
- The articles exist in your catalogue. See [Create an article](/products/create-article.md).

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Shares are about **other companies**. If you, as a logistician, want a client to see an article in their catalogue, set the article owner instead: [Article owner and client access](/products/owner-and-sharing.md).
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## Step by step

### See your own shares

1. Open **Catalogue › Product approvals › Your own approvals** (*Katalog › Artikelfreigaben › Eigene Freigaben*).
2. The list **Approved articles** (*Freigegebene Artikel*) shows SKU, EAN, name, price and stock of every article you share.
3. Shared articles also carry the badge **approved** (*freigegeben*) in the [article overview](/products/article-overview.md).

![Screenshot: List "Approved articles" with SKU, EAN, name, price and stock columns](/products/images/article-shares-own-list.png)

### Edit a share

1. In **Your own approvals**, click the edit button of the article. The page **Edit approval** (*Freigabe bearbeiten*) opens.
2. In the **Settings** (*Einstellungen*) box, enter the **Minimum own stock** (*Mindest-Eigen Bestand*) you want to keep for yourself – as a fixed quantity (**static**, *statisch*) and/or as a **percentage** (*prozentual*). If you fill in both, the higher of the two quantities is kept.
3. Click **Save**. The message **All values have been saved** (*Alle Werte wurden gespeichert*) appears.
4. Switch the **Status** on to activate the share. The message **The new status has been set** (*Der neue Status wurde gesetzt*) appears.
5. For every partner company, enter the **Selling price for** (*Verkaufspreis für*) … and click **Save**.

![Screenshot: Page "Edit approval" with the Settings box (minimum inventory static and percentage), the status switch and the selling price per partner](/products/images/article-shares-edit.png)

### See what others share with you

1. Open **Catalogue › Product approvals › All approvals** (*Katalog › Artikelfreigaben › Alle Freigaben*).
2. You see every article that a connected company shares with you: article, **Owner** (*Eigentümer*), **Price** (*Preis*) and **Available stock** (*Verfügbarer Bestand*).
3. Inactive shares are marked red. They cannot be selected, and neither can articles without a price for your company.

![Screenshot: List "All approvals" with article, owner, price and available stock](/products/images/article-shares-all-list.png)

## Fields and options

| Field | Meaning | Required |
|---|---|---|
| **Minimum inventory – static** (*Mindest-Eigen Bestand – statisch*) | Fixed quantity you keep for yourself; it is not shared | No |
| **Minimum inventory – percentage** (*Mindest-Eigen Bestand – prozentual*) | Share of your stock in percent that you keep for yourself; a started piece stays with you | No |
| **Status** | Share active or inactive. A new share starts as inactive. | – |
| **Selling price for** … (*Verkaufspreis für*) | Price at which this partner company gets the article | No |
| **Available stock** (*Verfügbarer Bestand*) | In **All approvals**: the stock of the sharing company minus its minimum own stock (the higher of static and percentage), never below 0. Example: 40 in stock, static 5, percentage 25 % → 10 are kept, 30 are available. | – |

## Good to know

- An article can be shared with each company only once.
- In **All approvals** you only see the price set for your own company, not the prices of other partners.
- A new share is inactive until you switch the **Status** on.
- If your partner sells your goods through their own JTL-Wawi and bills you per customer group, use [Consignment](/products/consignment.md) for the prices and the monthly billing.
- The partner prices are not the same as the selling prices in your article attributes. See [Prices](/products/prices.md).