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# Adjust stock

> Correcting a quantity, with a reason that stays on the record.

**Stock & Inventory → Inventory Levels → Adjust Stock** opens **Manual
Inventory Adjustment** — for breakage, spoilage, a cycle count that did not
match, or opening stock.

**1. Select the product**

**2. Choose the adjustment type**

`ADJUSTMENT IN (+ Stock)` or `ADJUSTMENT OUT (- Stock)`.

**3. Enter the quantity**

Always a positive number — the type decides the direction.

**4. Write the reason**

**Reason / Audit Note** is required. For example "Broken packaging" or
"Physical cycle count mismatch". This is what makes the ledger worth having
six months later.

**5. Submit Adjustment**

## What it does to your costs

An adjustment **in** needs a unit cost, because it creates stock that has to be
worth something. Get it right: costing it at zero drags your average cost down
and inflates the margin on everything you sell afterwards.

An adjustment **out** consumes cost the same way a sale does.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Adjustments cannot be edited or deleted — they are entries in a permanent
> ledger. A wrong adjustment is corrected by making an opposite one, so both
> remain visible. Take the extra second to check the direction.

## When to use a count instead

If you are settling a difference between what the system says and what is on
the shelf, use [B2B Reconciliation](https://sims-bae272dd.mintlify.site/stock/reconciliation.md) rather than a bare
adjustment. It records what you counted, why it differed and how you concluded
it — an adjustment only records the correction.


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