Stock without a batch record

Not every lot on your shelf has a batch or a delivery behind it in BatchDash. Some were there before you started; some you made on a day nobody opened a run. Add stock puts them in, lot by lot, and every ledger says what stands behind them: nothing on file.

Add stock, a lot per row

Where to find it

On a product: Add stock on the lots card, or in More actions on the page’s header.
On a component: Add stock on its ledger card.
On an ingredient: in the ⋮ menu on the ingredient’s page.
On a packaging item: Add stock on its ledger card.
For a component that has no stock line yet: Add stock… on the standard process that makes it.

For a whole shelf at once, the opening stock import takes a file, one row per lot.

Add stock never takes packaging from stock. A product whose recipe is not written yet records each new batch with Record a production instead, which does (a product before its recipe).

What you type

Where it came from, on a product or a component: On hand before you started, or Made without a batch record. An ingredient and a packaging item are always the first.
Lots: one row each, with its lot code, its best-before and its quantity, up to twenty at a time. The total reads under them.
Where it is, when your stock sits in more than one place.
The cost, optional: per unit, or per kilo or liter for an item counted in grams or milliliters.
On hand since, optional: the day it was already there. It can go back in time, never forward.

A lot code already open on the same item asks before it goes in: two lots can share a code, one lot split across two places or a supplier who used the code twice. Keep both under this code books it; each lot keeps its own quantity.

How it reads afterwards

Where it came from	Label on the lot and in the movements	What the trace says
On hand before you started	Opening stock	On hand since that day. No batch or delivery record sits behind it
Made without a batch record	No batch record	Made on that day, its inputs not recorded

Such a lot sells, moves, gets counted and gets recalled like any other. The trace starts at the lot: there is nothing further back to show.

What a blank cost means

Leave the cost blank if you do not know it. The stock goes in uncosted and stays flagged until something gives it a cost, and it is never counted as zero in an average. Type 0 only if it cost nothing. A backdated entry replays the average cost from that day, the way a backdated delivery does.

What it never does

It records no batch, consumes no ingredient and draws on no stock. Stock you buy ready-made comes in with a delivery instead, so its lot knows its vendor and its order.