Expiring¶
Which batches are near or past their best-before date, worked out from the batches you have recorded -- so a brie three days off its best-before does not sit unnoticed behind a shelf of fresher ones.
Where: menu → Inventory, then Expiring in the row of buttons under the list. The button shows once your shop has recorded its first batch.
Day to day¶
Pick how far ahead to look: 7 days, 30 days, 3 months, or Pick a date for anything else. 30 days is the window it opens on.
Each row is one batch: the item, its batch number if it has one, about how much is left, and where it is stored. On the right, the best-before date and how soon that is -- Today, Tomorrow, 3 days, and so on.
Past-dated batches show first, under their own heading, in red. A tub of olives that went past its date last week is more urgent than one still three weeks out, so it is not left to scroll to.
Tap a row to open that item on the Stock screen.
Good to know¶
- "About" means estimated, not counted. Nothing at the till picks a batch when a sale is rung up -- there is one stock count per item, not one per batch. This screen works out what is left of each batch by assuming the soonest-dated one sells first, the way a shop trying to use its oldest stock first actually would. If your shop sells a different one first, the estimate will be off; correct the batch on the item if it drifts too far from what you can see on the shelf.
- A batch with no on-hand left drops off the list. Once the estimate says a batch has sold through, it is gone from Expiring -- there is nothing left to warn you about.
- Batches are added in two places: on the item itself (Inventory → Stock → the item → Batches), or on a delivery line when you record one coming in. Either way, once it has a best-before date, it can show up here.
- An item with no batches recorded never appears. Expiring only knows about what you have told it -- a shelf-life you set on the item (used elsewhere, for the "use this first" work on the Inventory home screen) is a different thing and does not feed this list.