THE INVENTORY HANDBOOK
A place for every answer.
Learn how to set up your inventory, record daily stock changes, prepare supplier orders, and keep your records safe.
Learn the workflows.
Keep your records connected.
25 articles in this section
Getting started
Getting started with Inventory
Go from your first sign-in to a product with a checked opening balance.
Products, units, and opening stock
Set up product identities, purchase costs, pack sizes, and location balances.
Importing products from CSV
Map spreadsheet columns, review SKU matches, and choose how existing stock should change.
The Overview page
Read the headline figures, work the attention list, and pick up whatever you left unfinished.
Reading a product page
Everything about one product on a single bookmarkable page, and the actions that belong to it.
Daily stock work
Receiving, removing, recounting, and moving stock
Choose the stock action that explains what physically happened.
Locations, shelf codes, and replenishment
Find stock at each place and refill a short shelf from stock you already hold.
Barcode scanning and Take out
Collect a batch of sales or materials, review every line, and save the stock changes together.
Product variants and kits
Keep sizes and colours together, and track products made from other products.
Expiry dates and dated lots
Track quantities by expiry date at each location and review what needs attention.
Searching, filtering, and sorting
Reach a product from anywhere, then narrow the list to the question you are actually asking.
Selecting, bulk editing, and archiving
Change, export, label, retire, or remove many products in a single write.
Barcode labels, count sheets, and printing
Put a scannable code on the shelf and get the paper the day actually needs.
Planning and review
Suppliers and product sources
Keep contacts, supplier item codes, prices, pack sizes, and lead times together.
Reordering and receiving supplier orders
Turn alerts into reviewed order sheets and track the stock that is still due.
Low-stock thresholds and days of cover
Understand how recent movements inform alerts and suggestions you choose to accept.
Running and reviewing a stocktake
Count a defined scope, inspect the differences, and keep the resulting report.
Reports and activity history
Trace stock changes and understand what stock value, sales, and margin reports include.
Your data
Exports, backups, and working offline
Keep a portable copy of your records and understand when offline changes have synced.
Settings: currency, thresholds, and planning defaults
Every preference in the app, what it changes, and what it deliberately does not.
Where your data lives
Your Puter account holds the records; this page explains what is stored, where, and what leaves the device.
Troubleshooting
The problems that come up most, and what each one usually means.
Reference
CSV column reference
Every column Inventory exports and recognizes, and the rules it reads them by.
Activity log reference
What each kind of history entry records, what the export columns mean, and how far back the log reaches.
Keyboard shortcuts and scanner behaviour
What every key does, how a hardware scanner is recognized, and which codes the camera reads.
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