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Inventory: items, places, counts and moves
Track stock in the shop and trucks, count and move items, and set stock aside for a job.
Inventory tracks mulch, stone, plants, fittings and tools: how many you have, where, and when to reorder. Every change is a new line in a history that is never edited.
Where to find it
Hub left menu, group Schedule & Field, then Inventory. It is a plan feature (which plans is not verified). You need the right to manage or receive purchases to see it.
Steps: set up
- Open the Places tab and tap Add a place. Give it a name and a kind: Shop or yard, Truck or trailer, or Other. Add at least one before counting anything.
- Go to Stock and tap Add item. Fill in Name, Code (optional), Unit, What it costs you per unit ($), Supplier, Reorder when available is at or below, Order this many and Usually kept at.
- In How many do you have now? type your starting amount. It is saved as a count.
Don’t want to type names? Use Or start from names you already use on jobs and orders and tick items.
Steps: day to day
On an item you have:
– Count / change: choose I counted — this is how many there are, or Add or remove this many. Pick a reason and add a note (needed for “Other”).
– Move: from one place to another. Needs two places.
– Set aside: hold some for a job or quote. It stays in the truck but no longer counts as free.
– Edit and History.
Tabs
Stock, Low, Set aside, Not enough recorded and Places. The Stock tab shows on-hand, available, on order and stock value at your cost, with filters All, Low, On order and OK.
Tips
- Material used on a job is taken from the job’s own material record, so cost is not counted twice.
- On the Places tab the owner can allow stock to go below zero. When off, a count that would go negative is refused.
- If a job used more than you recorded, the job is not blocked. The gap is listed under Not enough recorded.
If something goes wrong
- “Add a place first.” The Places tab needs at least one place.
- “You need two places to move stock.” Add another place.