Counts drift — breakage, samples, a sale nobody billed. Correcting is normal; correcting invisibly is how the figure stops meaning anything.
Every shop has shrinkage: a bottle broken, goods taken for home use, a sale rung up wrong. The count has to be brought back to what the shelf says, and that is a normal part of running stock.
What matters is that the correction leaves a trace. A count that anybody can silently change is a count nobody can rely on; one where each adjustment is recorded, with its history, stays a figure you can defend — and repeated corrections on the same item are themselves worth noticing.
The physical figure for the item.
To what is actually there.
The change and who made it are kept.
What has moved the item, and when.
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.
per counter / year
From Growth
The count it corrects and the record it leaves.
No — breakage and shrinkage are normal. Adjusting without a record is the problem, not adjusting.
Yes, the item timeline shows what moved it, corrections included.
Yes — roles decide which staff can open the adjustment screen at all.
An adjustment with a name and a date on it is still a trustworthy figure.
