Wastage¶
Stock that left without being sold: thrown out, dropped, eaten by staff, given away. Logged against the stock item, so a bag of flour can be wasted as easily as a finished loaf.
Where: three doors to the same dialog.
| From | Tap |
|---|---|
| Inventory → Stock | the item → Log wastage |
| Inventory → Ingredients | the ingredient (a facet of Stock) → Log wastage |
| Sales → Products → a product | the menu at the top of the editor → Log wastage |
Logging it¶
- By quantity or By $ amount.
- How much, in any unit the item comes in -- grams, kilos, or one of its outers. The label always says which.
- A Reason.
- Log wastage. It is recorded at once and says Wastage logged.
By quantity shows the working before you save: 500 g x $0.0017 = $0.85. By $ amount is for when you know what it cost better than the system does; you still say how much, and type What it cost ($).
Saying several at once¶
At the end of a shift, tap the bin at the top of Inventory → Stock and say what went: "Six croissants from yesterday, gone stale. Dropped a two litre milk. A bag of chia the mice got into." AI matches each thing to your stock and picks a reason. Every line shows the item, the amount, the words it came from and its Reason, which you can change. Untick anything wrong, then Log. Each is logged as if done through the dialog one by one. Anything it could not match is listed for you to log by hand. You can type the list instead of talking.
Reasons¶
| Group | Reasons |
|---|---|
| Losses | Expired, Dropped/Spilled, Quality Issue, Mistake/Wrong Order, Customer return, Shrinkage |
| Given away | Staff Meal, Given away free |
| Anything else | Other |
Things you make¶
Wasting a product with a recipe -- a white sourdough loaf, a ham and gruyère baguette -- is counted in whole things, and the dialog says so:
Counted in whole Ham and gruyère baguette; the ingredients come off the shelf.
Two baguettes wasted takes two baguettes' worth of bread, ham and gruyère off, each at its own cost.
A product you sell exactly as it arrives is wasted in its own unit, like any stock item.
Where it shows¶
Sales → Reports → Daily, on the day you logged it: the Wastage figure in the top row, and the Wastage by category card. See Reports. It also reaches the daily journal in Bookkeeping.
Good to know¶
- A product with no stock item has nothing to log against. The dialog says so and only offers Close. Turn on Track stock for it first, or log the ingredients it is made from.
- Wastage is open to all staff. Nobody is asked for approval.
- It comes off on hand at the item's cost, and the day report values it at that cost.
- Customer return is for goods that came back and cannot be sold. Goods that go back on the shelf are adjusted back in.