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Godowns

A godown is a place where stock is kept: the shop floor, a back store, a warehouse. Every company has a Main Location, and stock with no godown chosen is kept there. To use more than one, turn on Multiple Warehouses in Company Features.

Create a godown

List of Masters → Godowns → New (or Multi Godowns to add many). Godowns appear in the list once Multiple Warehouses is on.
Type the Name and, for a sub-location, choose Under (Warehouse → Rack A).
Save.

Field	What it does
Allow storage of materials here	Turn off for a location that only groups others and holds no stock itself.
Third-party location	Stock kept at a job worker or consignment agent. It is still yours and counts in closing stock; the type lets job work be tracked separately.
Third-party name	Whose premises hold the stock.

Using godowns

Split each item's opening stock by godown.
Pick the godown on each line of a purchase, sale or stock voucher.
Move stock between godowns with a Stock Journal.
See stock per godown in the Godown Summary report.

RuleA sale or transfer cannot take more out of a godown than it holds (when negative stock is blocked): “Insufficient stock in godown …”.