Stock
Updated 23 September 2026
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Stock keeps one true quantity for everything you hold, wherever it is.
It can run your locations, transfers, stocktakes and reorder points, and records every movement as it happens: goods received on a purchase order, material consumed at a machine, consumables used on a service step, a load leaving on a van.
Give your customers an availability answer you trust at the moment of quoting, and fewer promises you have to take back.
Every balance is derived from the ledger rather than typed over, so each change carries a reason, a person and a time.
It works with the rest of the platform, or on its own for a stores operation or a distributor that needs inventory and nothing else.
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In more detail
Stock runs locations, lines, an append only movement ledger and counts, with a single writer that every other product calls. Balances are derived from the ledger and never edited. It adds a location tree with scannable codes, transfers between locations, stocktakes that write their own variance adjustments, and reorder points watched by the Reorder view and the stock monitors.
Where it lives
| Area | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue | /app/catalog | an area in the menu |
| Stock | /app/stock | an area in the menu |
| Scan | /app/scan | a station screen |
It adds to Quotes and Orders when the product that brings those areas is on too.
Works with Design Engineer, Route, Source, Service Centre and Machinist. Nothing is a prerequisite: each pair only adds to the other.
Switching it on and off
Switch it on in Settings then Products, on any plan. It brings the Stock area with lines, locations, movements and reorder points, plus the Products, Schemas and Imports views of the Catalogue.
Switched off: Every balance stays correct and every movement stays recorded. Locations, counts and reorder points are not available until it is switched on again.
Who uses it
- Stores Manager
- Inventory Controller
- Goods In and Goods Out
- Production Planner
- Internal Sales checking availability
What a workspace without Stock still gets
The ledger is infrastructure, not the product. Every workspace has one default store, and every quantity any product changes is written as a movement whether Stock is on or not.
- The catalogue's stock figure and the products API read the same true balance.
- Each product keeps its own quantity surface: the design module's stock lines, the machine module's stock, goods in against a purchase order and the issue on delivery.
- Switching Stock on later reveals the history that was recorded all along. Switching it off loses nothing: the area stays readable, without its write controls, until it has no rows.
What needs the product: more locations, transfers, counts, reorder points and the stock monitors, the ledger screen, the stock moves on the Scan station and the stock questions in the AI.
In this section
- Items and balancesRead a balance by item and location, and change it the right way when it is wrong.
- LocationsSet up the stores, bins and other places stock is held, and give each a scannable code.
- Movements and the ledgerTrace any balance back to the movements that made it, and export them.
- Counts and stocktakesCount a location and let the platform write the differences as adjustments.
- Reorder points and monitorsSet a reorder point on a line and have the team told when stock runs low.
- Scanning stockMove and count stock at the shelf with a scanner, without a keyboard.
Related
- StockRead a balance per item per location, the ledger behind it and the lines under their reorder point.
- Goods inBook a delivery in against its purchase order, at the desk or at the scan station.
- TraceabilityRead a Kabaido code, follow its trail and choose what a public scan of your label shows.
- MonitoringSet a monitor on an area so the team hears when a quote, order, stock line or delivery needs attention.