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Inventory Units

Inventory Units represent your stock records per SKU, warehouse, and location.

An inventory unit is where you’ll see (and manage) things like:

  • On-hand quantity (physical stock)
  • Reserved quantity (allocated to open orders)
  • Available quantity (what can be picked/shipped)
  • Optional tracking fields like serial, batch, and expiry

Inventory Units vs Items (quick reminder)

  • Items = product catalogue / SKU master data (name, barcode, weights, dimensions, serialised flag)
  • Inventory Units = stock quantities and where that stock lives

Movements vs transfers (rule of thumb)

  • Transfer stock when the stock is physically moving between locations.
  • Record inventory adjustment when you are correcting the quantity at the current location (count/correction/loss/damage), not moving it.

Guide:

Common tasks

  • Search by SKU, location, or serial to find stock.
  • Group by SKU to see totals across locations.
  • Transfer stock between locations (replenishment / relocations).
  • Export an audit trail of movements for investigation/reconciliation.
  • Pull/push inventory to an eCommerce platform (if an integration is enabled).

Guides

Notes

  • Available depends on reservations; you can have on-hand stock that is not available because it’s reserved for orders.
  • Reserved is controlled by order allocation/picking; generally you should not edit it directly.