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Receive

Take a delivery in and record what actually turned up.

Deliveries rarely match the paperwork. Receive records what really arrived, against the place it went into and the delivery note it came with. A driver leaving eleven boxes when the note says twelve is a fact worth having on record the moment it happens, not a mystery for the next stocktake to surface.

For whoever unpacks deliveries and needs a record when the boxes do not match the paperwork.

The Receive screen taking a delivery into goods in at Sydney DC against delivery note DN-20931

What is on it

How it works

  1. Choose where the delivery is going and type its note number.
  2. Count what came off the truck.
  3. Take in each line as you go.

What it does not do yet

A screen that looks like it did something it didn't is the worst outcome, so this is said here as plainly as it is in the app.

  • There is no supplier record: an order carries the name you typed and nothing else about them.
  • Nothing is sent to the supplier. The order is written down here and the list is yours to email.

Questions people actually ask

Can I receive against a purchase order?

Yes, from September 2026. Buy places an order, and this screen takes a delivery in against it: the lines are the order's lines, each box starts at what is still outstanding, and what arrives is written against the order as well as onto the shelf. Part deliveries leave it open, the last one closes it, and if the rest is never coming you close it short. A delivery with no order behind it is recorded exactly as before.

What if less arrived than the note says?

Record what really arrived. That is the whole point of this screen: the stock figure follows the pallet, not the paperwork. The note reference stays on every line, so the shortfall is still findable when you ring the supplier about it.

Where does the stock end up?

In the place you choose at the top of the screen, before you take anything in. A delivery that is split across two places is two goods-in lines, which is one more press and one less lie about where the stock is.

What if the same delivery note arrives twice by mistake?

Nothing stops you typing a note number twice, on purpose, for a supplier who genuinely splits one order across two trucks. What matters is that every line still records who took it in and when, so a duplicate entered by accident is a two-minute reversal, not a stock figure nobody can explain by Friday.

Why do deliveries so rarely match the order exactly?

Wrong quantities, a substituted product, a carton counted as one unit instead of the twelve inside it - the common causes are almost always at the supplier's end, not yours, which is exactly why the number that matters is what physically turned up, not what the paperwork claims. Receive does not try to match the delivery against an invoice or do formal three-way matching against accounts - it is the stock side of the question, not the accounting side, and it answers it by recording reality rather than trusting a piece of paper.

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