Count

Because somebody who can see twelve counts twelve. A blind count is the only kind whose result means anything, so the expected figures stay hidden by default and a button shows them when you are deliberately checking one shelf against a known number.

It becomes an adjustment: a movement with the count behind it, your name, the day and what the system had expected. The old figure is never typed over, so a month later there is an answer to why the number says what it says, and the adjustment can be reversed if it was wrong.

No, and you should not. Count one place at a time, often, which is what a shop can actually do; the counting rota on Automate says which place is most overdue. A count you have started stays open until you finish it, even if you put the phone down.

Yes. Each phone counts its own place, and the two counts are recorded as separate events even if they touch the same product. Nothing overwrites the other one, so a Saturday-morning count split across three staff produces three honest adjustments rather than one figure that quietly won a race.

Cycle counting, by default: count one place, often, rather than the whole building once a year. Best practice in most warehouses is actually both, a running cycle count for accuracy and a full stocktake now and then for an audit or a sign-off, and nothing stops you doing that here too, it is just every place counted in a row rather than a single mode of its own. What StockRoom will not do is pretend a once-a-year count is enough in between; the counting rota on Automate exists because the gap between counts is where stock figures quietly go wrong.