| Manufacturer | Enter the manufacturer name for the item. This field is optional but recommended to improve supplier recommendations. |
| MFG part # | Enter the manufacturer's part number for the item. This field is optional but recommended to improve supplier recommendations. |
| Description | Enter a brief description of the line item. You can enter up to 4000 characters. This description helps to improve your supplier matches. See Descriptions for more information. |
| UOM | Select a unit of measure. The default value is Each. For more information, see Available UOMs. |
| Quantity | Enter the quantity of the item or service needed. The quantity measure is based on your selected UOM. This value can contain up to 2 decimal places (e.g., 1.25 acres). When enabled, you can add additional quantities to potentially benefit from tiered and volume-based pricing. For more information, see Request Additional Quantities. |
| Benchmark | Enter a benchmark price, such as the last price you paid, in the event currency (up to two decimal places). Adding a benchmark helps you track costs, compare prices, and identify savings opportunities. See: Benchmark. Benchmarks can be added manually, imported from your purchasing application, or suggested from historical data (optional). This value doesn’t update automatically if the event currency changes unless your company has enabled automatic updates (optional). |
| Suppler part # | Enter a supplier's part number. This can be used to match to price book items when enabled and is only available when price books are enabled. |
| Auto quoting # | Enter a supplier's item number. This is used when integrated quoting is enabled to automatically get quotes from suppliers and is not visible to suppliers invited to the event. To turn on this feature, contact your Fairmarkit Customer Success Manager. |
| Comments | Enter a comment specific to the line item. Comments can contain up to 5,000 characters. |
| Date Range | Select the start date and end date for the date range. This is typically used for services and software subscriptions and licenses. |
| Category | Add one or more categories or category/subcategory combinations (e.g., IT Hardware and Laptops) to define your event. Categories and subcategories are defined when your company was set up in Fairmarkit. They’re made to match your business practices and can be used to organize and track your analytics in a way that makes sense to your organization. Customer categories can be turned on at the event or line item level; to turn on categories at the line item level, contact your Fairmarkit Customer Success Manager. |
| Attachments | Add attachments that are specific to the line item. For example, you may want to attach a specification or design document to explain a line item further. Multiple attachments can be added. File names cannot be longer than 255 characters. Click the remove  button to delete an attachment. |
| Internal Tags | Add additional information about the line item. Information is added as free text key and value pairs. You can define multiple keys and multiple values for a single key. These are internal values that are not available to suppliers. |