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Adjusting stock manually

When and how to record breakage, comps, theft, or physical counts.

Sales come in automatically through depletion events (POS imports). For everything else there's the Adjust stock form on each beverage's detail page.

Two modes:

  • Add / remove — enter a positive or negative number. Use this for breakage (-1), tasting comps (-0.2 of a bottle), receiving extras outside an order (+6).
  • Set exact count — for physical inventory. Type the actual count on the shelf and Alba records the delta.

Pick a reason from the dropdown (breakage, theft, comp, spillage, physical_count, external_purchase, transfer_in, transfer_out, correction, other). Add a note if helpful.

Every adjustment lands in the History timeline at the bottom of the page — who, when, why, and the before / after counts. Useful for audits and for spotting patterns ("we comp a lot of Sassicaia").

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