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Inventory that knows which warehouse it is in

One available figure per item per place, moved by the receipts, production runs and sales that actually happened. Stock only leaves a warehouse on a transfer somebody receives at the other end, and only disappears on an adjustment with a reason on it.

Where it comes from

Five things move stock, and all five are somewhere else

Nobody types a stock figure in. It is what is left after everything that happened to the item — which is why the number on this screen is worth trusting and the number on a spreadsheet is not.

  • Purchase
    • Goods receipt
    • Direct purchase
  • Manufacturing
    • Raw material consumed
    • Finished goods transferred in
  • Sale & POS
    • Invoice
    • Counter sale
    • Return
  • Stock Movement
    • Warehouse to warehouse
  • Stock Adjustment
    • Damaged in store
    • Increase or decrease
One available figure

Per item, per warehouse, in that item’s own unit — and the same figure the ledger values as Inventory.

Which is also why there is no "recalculate stock" button. There is nothing to recalculate.

What is in it

Everything the Inventory module covers

  • Real-Time Inventory Insights

    Every item with what is available and the point it counts as low, in that item’s own unit — metres, pieces, whatever it is sold in. Filter by warehouse, category, brand or manufacturer.

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  • Stock Movement

    Warehouse to warehouse, as a request from the receiving end or a push from the sending one. It is Requested, then Initiated, then Received — and only the last one changes what is available.

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  • Receivable Stock

    The inbound side of every transfer still in the air. Somebody at the destination confirms what turned up before it counts as theirs.

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  • Stock Adjustment

    Damage, wastage, a recount — an increase or a decrease against a named reason, in a named warehouse, needing an approval. Your own list of reasons.

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  • Warehouse Access

    Which people can see and move stock in which warehouses. A storekeeper at one outlet has no view of another one’s shelves.

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Day to day

Four screens, and what each one is for

Stock work is mostly looking something up and occasionally admitting something went missing. These are both.

  • What have we got

    Every item with available stock and its low point side by side. Narrow it to one warehouse, one brand or one category, or hide everything that is out of stock.

    • Warehouse
    • Category
    • Brand
    • Available only
  • Send it somewhere else

    A transfer out of one warehouse and into another — raised as a request by the end that wants it, or pushed by the end that has it.

    • Source warehouse
    • Destination
    • Items
    • Request or push
  • Write off what broke

    An increase or a decrease against a reason from your own list, in a named warehouse, and it needs approving.

    • Warehouse
    • Reason
    • Increase / decrease
    • Approve
  • Keep people to their own shelves

    Warehouse access decides who can see and move stock where. It is per user, per warehouse.

    • User
    • Warehouse
    • Access
The Biznify item stock summary: each item with its code, brand, available stock and low-stock point, in its own unit, above filters for category, manufacturer, brand and warehouse.
Available stock and the point each item counts as low — in that item’s own unit, filtered to whichever warehouse you mean.

How it holds

Two things it will not let you pretend

Both are about the same thing: stock that is somewhere between two places, or stock that is gone and nobody has said why.

Stock in transit belongs to neither end

A transfer is not a single act. It is Requested, then Initiated, then Received — and the destination’s available figure does not move until somebody there receives it. So a lorry-load cannot be counted at both ends, and it cannot be sold from the warehouse it has already left.

Stock does not vanish without a reason and an approval

Every adjustment is an increase or a decrease against a reason you defined — damaged in store, wastage, a recount — in a named warehouse, and it has to be approved. Shrinkage stops being a mystery and starts being a list you can total by reason.

Which means the question "where did 40 pieces go" has an answer on the screen rather than an argument in the stockroom.

Why it matters

Why a business stops counting on a spreadsheet

A stock sheet is accurate the day it is written. What it cannot survive is a second warehouse, a night shift, or anyone selling while it is open.

  • You can say what is in one warehouse, not just what the company owns altogether
  • Goods on a lorry are counted at neither end until somebody receives them
  • Writing stock off needs a reason and an approval, so shrinkage has a name
  • Every item carries its own reorder point, in its own unit — metres, pieces, bundles
  • A storekeeper sees their own outlet and not anybody else’s
  • Receipts, production and sales all move the same figure, so nobody keeps a second sheet

What comes out

What you can pull out of it

Every list filters rather than exports, so most of these are a dropdown rather than a report.

The Biznify item stock summary: twenty-two items with their code, brand, available stock and the point each counts as low, in that item’s own unit - pieces for trims and finished garments, metres for fabric - above filters for category, manufacturer, brand and warehouse.
Stock summary

1 of 7

The last one is not in this module at all — it is the Inventory and Work-In-Process Inventory accounts on the balance sheet, moved by the same receipts and production runs. The count and the value do not drift apart, because nothing updates one without the other.

Getting started

How inventory gets running

How long it takes depends on how you work and what has to come across from wherever it lives now. That is what the second step is for — and nothing is committed before it.

  1. Start the trial

    30 days, no card, nothing to install. Put a real week of your own work through it rather than a demo of ours.

  2. A short discovery

    We go through how you actually work — the documents, who should see what, and what has to come across into inventory.

  3. Set up and trained

    Modules configured to that, roles set screen by screen, and your team taken through the parts they will each use.

  4. Live, and still answered

    Phone, email or online, from the team that built it. Nobody hands you to a reseller once the invoice is paid.

Questions

What a storekeeper asks about it

Does stock update by itself when I buy or sell?

Yes. A goods receipt or a direct purchase raises it, an invoice or a counter sale takes it down, a production run consumes the raw material and puts the finished item in. None of that is re-typed here — this screen is the result of it.

Can I see one warehouse rather than the whole company?

Yes, and you can decide who else can. The stock summary filters by warehouse, and Warehouse Access sets which warehouses each user can see and move stock in at all.

What stops somebody quietly changing a stock figure?

There is no way to edit the number directly. Changing it means an adjustment: an increase or a decrease, against a reason from your own list, in a named warehouse, and it has to be approved. The adjustment stays on the record afterwards.

Will it warn me before I run out?

Every item carries a low-stock point in its own unit, and the summary shows it in the column beside what is available, so the items that need ordering are visible at a glance. It does not raise a purchase order by itself — buying starts with a requisition somebody approves, which is deliberate.

Can stock be in transit between two warehouses?

That is exactly what a transfer is. It goes Requested, Initiated, Received, and the destination’s available figure only moves on the last step — so stock in the van is not sellable from either end.

Does it do barcodes?

Biznify has barcode templates, under Point of Sale, where you design the label that gets printed. Stock in and out is driven by the documents — receipts, invoices, transfers, adjustments — rather than by scanning in this module.

See inventory on your own numbers

Start the trial and put a week of real work through it, or have us walk you through inventory against the way you already do it.