You buy a carton and sell a piece. Unless the app knows how many pieces are in the carton, one of those two numbers is always wrong.
Wholesale in, retail out is the normal shape of Indian trade: cases of soap become bars, bags of grain become kilos, cartons of bottles become bottles. The purchase is in one unit and the sale is in another, and the stock in between has to reconcile the two.
Keeping both units on the item, with the conversion between them, lets each document use the unit that suits it. The purchase says two cases, the bill says twelve pieces, and the stock figure is the same fact told twice.
The one you buy in and the one you sell in.
How many of the smaller unit make the larger.
The purchase records the unit it arrived in.
Stock falls correctly either way.
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 item itself and the count behind it.
Yes — that is what the conversion on the item is for.
Yes. The conversion means a purchase in cases and a sale in pieces reduce the same stock figure.
Anywhere goods arrive packed and leave loose — kirana, hardware, pharmacy, stationery.
One conversion on the item, and both numbers stay right.
