Write-offs with reasons, not mysteries
Stock that disappears without a document is indistinguishable from theft. Adjustments in SeroBooks force the honest question — damage, loss or correction? — and put a value on the answer, in the ledger, with the author's name on it.
What you get
Every write-off has an author and a reason
An adjustment changes stock with no sale or purchase behind it — breakage, theft, samples, a count that never matched. SeroBooks records who made it and why, in plain English, because an untracked write-off is indistinguishable from stock walking out the door. 'Broken in the stockroom' written today is what makes the report readable in six months.
Damage/loss and correction are distinct types: one writes value off as a loss, the other simply puts a wrong count right. The distinction flows through to the damaged-goods report and the ledger.
The last resort, on purpose
The screen's own advice: before adjusting, look for the missing purchase, the unposted delivery, the forgotten transfer, the held sale. Adjusting over a paperwork gap hides the real cause — and it will happen again next month. Negative stock in particular is always a data problem, never a real one; the fix is entering the missing purchase, not forcing the count.
That guidance lives in the product because clean stock files are made of habits, not features.
Audited, reported, posted
Adjustments land in their own register — ref, date, reason, type, lines, value — and in the damaged-goods report with warehouse, invoice and customer where relevant. Each one posts to the ledger, so shrink is a number in the books rather than a shrug in the aisle.
Several items can ride one adjustment, so the Monday-morning breakage round is one document, not five.
Frequently asked questions
Can adjustments add stock?
Corrections can go both ways, but additions belong on purchases — and the screen says so, keeping the paper trail honest.
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