Stock Control Command Centre
The Stock Control command centre enables you to control your stock, including creating and tracking items, define selling and buying prices for items and services, and tracking stock values and quantities.
The flowchart displayed details all the tasks you can complete, including purchasing and counting your items, receiving items, moving items between locations, and building finished items.
As with any command centre, you can click To Do List to display business tasks that affect your company on a regular basis, click Find Transactions to view summary information about transactions, click Reports to print or view reports, and click Analysis to analyse aspects of your business, click Sync to sync your data with other software and click Lists to access lists related to that center.
Stock Control Command Centre tasks
Click to open the Items Register window, where you can view transactions for all stock items or for a single stock item within a specific date range.
Click to open the Build Items window, where you can build finished items using other items that you stock. For example, you can build a gift basket containing assorted items.
Adjust Stock
Click to open the Adjust Stock window, where you can enter a journal transaction to change your item quantities and values.
Click to open the Items List window, where you can view the items you’ve set up in your company file. Click the zoom arrow next to an item to open the Item Information window for that item.
Click to open the Auto-Build Items window, where you can quickly build the finished items you sell regularly.
Click to open the Set Item Prices window, where you can quickly define the selling prices for items and services provided by your business.
Count Stock
Click to open the Count Stock window, where you can enter your opening stock amounts, item counts and adjustments for spoilage and shrinkage.
Click to open the Purchases—Item layout (Receive Items) window, where you can record the receipt of stock items that you have received without a bill.
Locations (AccountEdge Plus only)
Click to open the Locations List window, where you can view, create, edit and delete the locations you use for tracking stock.
Move Items (AccountEdge Plus only)
Click to open the Move Items window, where you can move items between locations.
Click to open the Transaction Journal window, where you can view journal entries for your recorded stock transactions.
Other tasks in the Stock Control command centre
Click to open the To Do List window, where you can view a list of tasks that need to be performed regularly, such as recording recurring transactions. You can also use the To Do List to automatically perform tasks, such as creating a purchase when an item’s quantity becomes low.
The To Do List window automatically displays tasks related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of task, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required task from the list that appears.
Click to open the Find Transactions window, where you can view summary information about accounts, invoices, bills, cards, items and jobs. You can click a zoom arrow in this window to display the original transaction details.
The Find Transactions window automatically displays the transaction type related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of transaction, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required transaction type from the list that appears.
Click to open the Index to Reports window, where you can prepare, print and customise your reports or export them to Microsoft Excel using the OfficeLink feature.
The Index to Reports window automatically displays reports related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of report, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required transaction type from the list that appears.
When you click Analysis, a window appears displaying an analysis of information related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of analysis, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required analysis from the list that appears.
When you click Sync, the Device Manager window opens allowing you to link your company file to your Dropbox account. Once you have established a link, you can click on the Devices tab to set up devices, such as your mobile phone, that will sync with AccountEdge - compatible mobile applications.
To sync your data, select the Details tab and click the Sync button in the Device Manager window to sync your contacts, items, activities and jobs with the device selected.
Click to open the list that is associated with the command centre selected. For example, if the Inventory command centre is displayed and you click Lists, the Items List window opens. If you want to display a different list, click the down arrow and select the required list from the menu that appears.
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