A stock report tells you what is running out when you go looking. The home screen tells you when you are not.
Every business has the report. Almost none run it daily, because running a report is a deliberate act and ordering stock is something that happens between other things.
Putting the low lines on the opening screen changes when the information arrives — not when you went looking, but every time you opened the app. It is the same data as the report, and it gets acted on far more often.
On the lines that matter.
As you would anyway.
On the home screen.
A purchase order while the stock lasts.
What you sell and how much of it you have. Stock moves as you bill and purchase rather than waiting for someone to update a register, and the items themselves carry the detail a bill needs: rate, tax slab, unit, and a code to scan.
Set the items up once and the rest of the app leans on them — the counter, the invoice, the order and every stock report read from the same list.
The alert beside it and the count behind it.
The alert reaches you as a notification; this is the standing list on the screen you open anyway.
The levels you set on the items, against the count your billing maintains.
Yes — the count has to be maintained for the list to mean anything.
The report everyone has is the report nobody runs.
