Inventory & Warehouse
Products
Section titled “Products”Your catalog — items sold, purchased, or held as raw materials/finished goods for manufacturing. Each product carries its own costing method (FIFO or weighted-average), used whenever a stock movement needs to post a GL value.
Warehouses & stock
Section titled “Warehouses & stock”Orbit supports multiple warehouses, each with its own stock balances. Every stock-affecting
action — a Purchase receipt, a Sales fulfillment, a manual adjustment, a
Manufacturing goods issue/receipt — goes through the same warehouse
engine and posts a real StockTransaction,
never a quantity field edited in place. That’s what keeps a product’s on-hand quantity, its
warehouse-by-warehouse breakdown, and its GL value always in agreement.
- Stock Transactions — the full movement history: receipts, issues, transfers between warehouses, and adjustments.
- Lot & Serial tracking — for products that need it (regulated goods, warranty tracking, manufacturing traceability), Orbit tracks individual lots or serial numbers rather than just a bulk quantity. Lot/serial numbers are picked from real searchable dropdowns wherever they’re needed (e.g. issuing materials to a Manufacturing work order), not typed free-text.
- Adjustments — go through the same warehouse/GL engine as everything else, so an adjustment is never invisible to accounting.
Shipments (pick, pack, ship)
Section titled “Shipments (pick, pack, ship)”Fulfilling a Sales Order moves a shipment through a real pick → pack → ship workflow rather than a single “Mark as Shipped” button:
- Start picking — begin gathering the items.
- Complete picking — everything’s been pulled from the shelf.
- Complete packing — packed and ready to go, with shipment package details (weight, volume, dimensions) recorded.
- Ship — dispatched, with support for partial shipments when an order can’t go out all at once.
Each step is reflected in the warehouse’s reserved-vs-available stock in real time.
Where receiving comes from
Section titled “Where receiving comes from”Inbound stock isn’t limited to a dedicated warehouse screen — a Purchase Order’s own Receiving tab uses the same reservation/receiving dialog, so receiving against a PO and receiving any other way post through the identical engine. See Purchase.
See also: Accounting for how stock movements value against the ledger, and Manufacturing for how BOMs and work orders consume and produce stock.