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Update 1299 16 September 2025

Retail System - Shop Stock The old 'Inventory', which showed quantities of items in stock at each location has been removed. This information is now shown on the Stock Items tab and the Stock Items Search tab. A new tab, 'Low Stock', displays a cleaner list of items that have total stock (at all locations) lower than the internal low stock threshold. The internal low stock threshold can be set in the details of each product. As I know everyone will want to immediately make use of this excellent facility, but dread the task of setting a value for each product, tick box mode has been updated to include a 'Set Internal Low Stock Value' option. This will assist where large numbers of similar products require similar thresholds. Note this is different from the PUBLIC low stock threshold, where drives when 'low stock' is shown on the public site (where set to do so). 'Blank' is acceptable to enter into the threshold value box (for both internal and public). If 'blank' is entered, then the item will never be considered 'low stock'. This is appropriate for non-stock controlled items, such as cups of tea, etc. The Low Stock list is sorted by cost centre, including a 'none' option and an 'all' option. (Note the 'all' option may overload browsers at large shops!) The in-stock number at each location takes account for what has been ordered online but not yet sent/collected. These are excluded from these figures, so the number shown is the number available to be purchased, ie what will be left after all current commitments are met.