This guide explains how to handle spoiled, broken, or lost products in inventory by marking them as waste and reducing them from the inventory.

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If a situation arises where a product in inventory becomes spoiled, broken, or lost for some reason, it can be recorded as waste and thus reduced from the inventory. 

Recording waste

Create a new inventory transaction type, for example "Waste", by going to Products > Inventory transaction types.

The inventory transaction type can be created under Other transactions.

Next, create a new inventory transaction by going to "Create new inventory transaction" and selecting "Other transactions".

Make an inventory entry for the product with a negative quantity, indicating how many units this waste affects.

In the example below, -1 unit of the product has been recorded as waste, which reduces the product by 1 unit from the inventory. The transaction type is the created waste. Save this entry. 

If you want to track the amount of waste, for example, retrieve the inventory transaction report and extended search. Set the desired delivery date up to which these are distributed and limit by this type "Waste", which will display all inventory entries with the Waste type.

Keywords: Waste

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