A loose stone can point at two other records, and both live at the bottom of its General tab:
- Mounting — the jewelry item this stone is set into.
- Matched Pair — the stone this one is sold alongside, e.g. the other half of a pair of studs.
Both work the same way, so learning one teaches you the other.
Linking a piece that already exists
Tick Has Mounting (or Matched Pair) and you get two buttons.
Select Existing opens a picker. Search by stock number or keyword — description, style, or category — and the results show the photograph, the stock number and the description, so you can recognize the piece rather than having to remember its number. A loose stone with no photograph shows a tinted outline of its shape instead. Click the one you want; press Enter to take the first match.
The mounting picker offers jewelry items only, and the match picker offers stones only — never this stone itself.
Nothing is written yet. Save the stone to commit the link.
Creating the piece from here
Add Mounting (or Add Match) is for the piece that does not exist yet. It creates the record, links it to this stone, and takes you straight to it. There is no description to type first — a jewelry item’s description comes from the piece itself once you fill it in.
Close on the new record brings you back to the stone with the link already in place.
Once it is linked
The panel shows the piece: its photograph, stock number and description, with three buttons.
- View Mounting / View Match — opens the other record. Close comes back here.
- Change — opens the picker again. Choosing a different piece asks first, naming what is about to be unlinked; the old link is dropped when you press Save.
- Remove — clears the link. Save commits it.
Deleting a piece releases every link that pointed at it, so a stone never shows a mounting that is no longer there.
Separable
Separable sits beside a matched pair and means the two stones may be sold individually. Leave it unticked when the pair only sells together.
What a link does and does not do
A mounting link is a pointer — it records which piece the stone sits in. It does not move quantities or cost.
That is different from Set Stones on the jewelry item, which physically combines a stone into a piece and does move counters and cost. See Set Stones for that.