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      Managing your Stock Levels

      Stock Level management is critical to operations to measure food and beverage costs.

      How To Manage Stock Levels 

      Filter by tracked products, out-of-stock products, and variants.

      1. In the Manager Dashboard, on the left navigation bar click "Stock Levels" 
      2. You can view inventory adjustments or reports
        1. Adjustments
          1. Tap on the specified category
          2. When clicking on a product, under "Manage Stock" you can do the following:
            • Recount: Put in a new count of inventory
            • Received: Add in any newly received inventory from shipment to your existing count
            • Loss: Record any lost inventory
            • Theft: Record any stolen inventory

      Under "Inventory Details" you can do the following:

      1. Par Level: Set a par level for a product
      2. Out-of-Stock Action: Choose 86 or disable as the action once the item is out of stock
      3. Untrack: Removes any inventory configured to this item2. Reports: View a report which can be filtered by any of the adjustment types. View the user who adjusted the item. 
        1. Tap on the specified category
        2. When clicking on a specific product and selecting a date or date range, you can view and download the following reports:
          • Orders Report
          • Recount
          • Received
          • Loss
          • Theft
          • Incremental Stock Adjustments
          • Decremental Stock Adjustments
        3. After choosing an option, press submit to see the report or download the report

      Key Terminology 

      • Tracked: Refers to a set stock level.

      • Untrack: Removes all associated stock levels to a product 

      • Par Level: The inventory needed to fulfill demand. This will make the stock level red if the stock count falls below the par level.

      • Stock Level: Refers to the amount of the product.  

      • Reserved: The amount of a product that has already been placed for future orders (takeout and delivery).

      • Available: The amount of a product left available after the reserved orders.

      • Out-of-stock action:

        • Disable Product: When stock levels hit 0,  the item will be disabled and removed from the customer-facing menu until manually re-enabled.

        • 86 Product: When stock levels hit 0, the product will be temporarily disabled and automatically re-enabled the following day. On the customer-facing menu, the product will still appear, however, the product will be marked as out of stock and will be unorderable.

      To learn how to view your inventory adjustment and depletion reports, click here.