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How stock moves through the business
Seven steps, start to finish. Pick a step to see what happens there and what you can read about it. Fifteen minutes end to end, and you will understand every number in the app.
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Step 5 of 7Orders arrive from your storefronts and from wholesale. The order records what a customer wants and reserves it against your stock so it cannot be promised twice.
Reserving is not deducting. The units are still on the shelf, still counted, still yours — they are simply spoken for.
- Goes up
- Nothing.
- Doesn’t move
- Stock. An order reserves; it does not deduct.
- Written down
- The order and what it has reserved.
- Watch out
- Treating a reservation as a deduction is how a system ends up showing stock that was never really there. This app keeps them separate on purpose.