Adjustments & movements
One idea: nothing changes a quantity without leaving a record.
- Adjustments are the deliberate corrections, each with a reason. You make one with Adjust stock on the Stock tab, or Adjust on an item’s page.
- Movements (
/inventory/movements) is the tab that lists every stock change, adjustments included, newest first. An old link to/inventory/adjustmentsopens it.
On this page
Section titled “On this page”- Adjustments
- The movement ledger
- Why a ledger rather than a running total
- See also
Adjustments
Section titled “Adjustments”An adjustment is a deliberate change to a quantity: damage found, a correction after a count, a write-off, stock reconciled after an import. Every one carries a reason code, so the adjustment log answers not just what changed but why someone changed it.
Bulk imports go through the same path. An imported correction is still a reason-coded adjustment, not a silent overwrite.
The movement ledger
Section titled “The movement ledger”Movements is the full ledger — every stock change of every kind, newest first:
| Movement kind | Comes from |
|---|---|
| Receipt | Goods booked in |
| Putaway | Dock to home bin |
| Pick | Pulled for an order |
| Pack / ship | Consumed by a fulfillment |
| Count adjustment | An approved variance |
| Adjustment | A deliberate correction |
| Return | Graded back into stock |
| Move / refill | Relocated between bins |
Each row records what moved, how much, from where to where, why, and who did it.
Why a ledger rather than a running total
Section titled “Why a ledger rather than a running total”A running total tells you what the system currently believes. A ledger tells you how it came to believe it.
When a number is wrong — and eventually one always is — the ledger is what lets you walk backwards to the movement that broke it, rather than adjusting to a number that “looks right” and losing the evidence. It is also what makes short picksShort pickWhen a bin does not hold what the system expected. Recording it marks the line as not enough stock and posts the discrepancy against that specific bin, rather than quietly under-picking the order. Read more → and count variances into a signal about specific bins rather than an anonymous shrinkage figure.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Counts — where approved variances come from.
- Stock — the totals this ledger produces.
- Receiving — the inbound side of the ledger.