The answer to How to work with inventory
Updating the inventory - Primarily inventory needs updating when material (stock) is received or sold in the shop. With PoS, inventory would automatically deduct on sale. While, without the purchase App, inventory receipts (Incoming inventory) would have to be manually done.
1. Ongoing receipt operations - While receiving material from supplier, each time create a receipt operation in Inventory App by clicking the green button "xx to process" on the Receipts card while on inventory overview screen.
Click new, add the supplier (Receive from), Product with received qty (done) (in operations tab, while adding a new line for each product); Source document reference the purchase order number if reqd
Click validate and this would increment the product stock in shop
2. Periodic stock verification - Use this operation periodically to sync the physical stock with that in system. From time to time there would be variations owing to multiple reasons could be for eg. free sample given away or scrap etc)
Inventory > Operations > Physical Inventory (Inventory Adjustment)
This would list all the products in stock while allowing the updation of 'counted qty' field. Click Apply All to update Inventory with physical
quantity
Click new if a product isn't on the list
3. Starting Inventory - With a new system implementation it very likely you might need to update inventory with
physical
stock position. Use the inventory adjust operation or create a receipt operation to update the starting inventory
Answer to Misc item product
Would suggest to create a product as "Misc item" or "one off", while taking in inventory you could put in internal notes to what was purchased. While selling this product update customer receipt by adding a customer note
Hope this helps getting setup and ready to use state
