The inventory

An inventory is a bundle of counts across your locations, taken as one exercise.

Step by step

1. Open Inventory.
2. It shows which places are due and what was last found.
3. Start an inventory. Every count you now do — in the warehouse, at a van, started from anywhere — attaches to it by itself.
4. Finish it when everywhere has been counted.

How often a place falls due is a setting.

Good to know

The page answers two questions and no others: where do I have to look? and what did I last find? Everything else would be decoration on a page that exists to send somebody into the yard.

Inventories and individual counts sit in one history, by date. Whoever looks something up is after a point in time, not a category.

You do not have to file anything. As long as an inventory is running, any count attaches itself — including one started at a vehicle by someone who does not know an inventory is on.

What it does not do

The inventory does not value your stock at a fixed date for a balance sheet. It gives you counts, differences and their money value; what your accountant does with that is their work.

It does not lock anything. Loading and consumption keep working while an inventory runs — otherwise the yard would stop for a day.