Counting the shelf, and accepting the count
A stock count is two jobs done by two people, and Event Managr keeps them apart on purpose. Somebody on the floor says what is there. Somebody in the office decides what that means about what the company owns.
Counting
Start a count from an item’s page. The form is built for a phone in one hand with the other hand on a pallet: big numbers, big targets, no hunting.
You enter what is physically in front of you. You are not asked to reconcile anything, and you are not shown a target to match — a count that tells you the expected answer first is not a count.
Accepting
A submitted count sits waiting until somebody with the permission to change a total looks at it. They see what was counted, what the system thought, and the difference. Accepting writes the new total and records the adjustment against the person who accepted it.
Until then nothing has moved. A count is an observation; only accepting it is a decision.
Why it takes two people
Because the alternative is that anybody who can count stock can also quietly change how much of it the company is supposed to have, and the two are then indistinguishable in the record. Splitting them means a shortfall has a name against it and a reason beside it, which is the entire value of counting in the first place.
If you are the only person here
A role can hold both permissions, and on a one-person business it should. The two steps still happen and both are still recorded — you count, then you accept — so the history reads the same way it would with a crew of ten.
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