Stock Journal and physical stock

These vouchers move stock without a sale or purchase. Find them under More Vouchers → Inventory Vouchers. A type you have not used yet asks once to be switched on.

Move stock between godowns

1. More Vouchers → Stock Journal. It opens in Transfer mode.
2. Tick Use for inter-godown transfer for a simple move: choose the item, the godown it leaves and the godown it goes to.
3. Otherwise fill Source (From) on the left and Destination (To) on the right — item, godown, quantity, rate.
4. Ctrl+A.

Manufacturing

Making one item from others — packing loose rice into 5 Kg bags, mixing spices. Turn on Bill of Materials in Company Features.

1. On the finished item, More Details → Set Components (BoM): each component and the quantity used per unit made.
2. Open a Stock Journal and switch to Manufacturing (Ctrl+H).
3. Put the finished item and quantity under Destination, then Fill from BOM — the components and quantities consumed fill in under Source (Consumption).
4. Add any Additional Cost of Manufacture (labour, packing) with its cost ledger, then Compute Production Cost. The finished item takes the cost of its components plus these costs.
5. Ctrl+A.

Physical stock count

1. More Vouchers → Physical Stock, with the counting date.
2. For each item (and godown), type the Counted quantity. Book shows what the books say and Difference the gap.
3. Ctrl+A. The books are adjusted to the count from that date.

Stock Write-off

For goods damaged, expired or lost: More Vouchers → Stock Write-off. The stock goes down and the loss shows as lower gross profit; serial numbers written off are marked Scrapped.