Glossary
Active User
Section titled “Active User”A User enabled to access the business workspace. The plan controls how many Users can be active.
Add Material
Section titled “Add Material”A production step that records an Item physically added or consumed during a Production Order.
Adjustment
Section titled “Adjustment”A controlled inventory action that changes quantity/state or splits a Container while preserving history.
Assembly
Section titled “Assembly”A Production Instruction type for discrete, unit-based work such as finished units, kits, or sets.
Audit Log
Section titled “Audit Log”A Settings record of important application/user actions. Use it to answer who did what, when, and to which record.
Available
Section titled “Available”A Lot Status indicating normal operational availability.
Business Timezone
Section titled “Business Timezone”The Time Zone set in Business Profile. Indietory uses it for operational calendar dates and displayed operational timestamps, rather than an individual user’s device timezone.
Average Cost
Section titled “Average Cost”A system-maintained Item cost value derived from inventory activity.
Average Sold Unit Cost
Section titled “Average Sold Unit Cost”The quantity-weighted historical recorded cost of units actually sold. It is separate from an Item’s current Average Cost.
A Production Instruction type for bulk or process manufacturing.
Cost of Goods Sold: the historical recorded inventory cost associated with stock sold through a Quick Sale.
Completed
Section titled “Completed”The confirmed completion status of a Production Order.
Container
Section titled “Container”An individually tracked physical portion of a Lot, with its own quantity, Location, label, and history.
Customer
Section titled “Customer”A reusable person or business record that can optionally be associated with a Quick Sale.
Expired
Section titled “Expired”A Lot Status used when a Lot should not be treated as normally available inventory.
Final Use By Date
Section titled “Final Use By Date”An operational Lot date representing the business’s recorded final permitted use date. When due, it changes a non-rejected, non-voided Lot to Rejected; see Automatic Lot Status Updates.
Gross Profit
Section titled “Gross Profit”Sale revenue minus COGS, before labor, overhead, fees, taxes, and other business expenses.
Gross Margin
Section titled “Gross Margin”Gross Profit divided by sale revenue, shown as a percentage. It is based on recorded inventory cost and is not net profit.
A Lot Status used to block normal use while the Lot is clarified or reviewed.
Instruction
Section titled “Instruction”A non-material production step describing work to perform during a Production Order.
Inventory
Section titled “Inventory”Current physical quantity/state of an Item, including applicable Lot, Container, Location, status, cost, source, and history.
Inventory History
Section titled “Inventory History”The event record showing how inventory was received, moved, adjusted, consumed, produced, sold, or reversed.
The definition of something your business buys, stores, makes, or sells.
Item Code
Section titled “Item Code”The stable short identifier assigned to an Item.
Location
Section titled “Location”A defined physical storage area such as a room, rack, shelf, cabinet, bin, or staging location.
A group of inventory with a common production or receiving identity. A Lot belongs to one Item and may contain Containers.
Lot Code
Section titled “Lot Code”The internal identifier generated by Indietory for a Lot.
Manufacturer
Section titled “Manufacturer”The Vendor identified as the business that manufactured a received Item or Lot.
Manufacturer Lot Code
Section titled “Manufacturer Lot Code”An external batch/lot reference from the Manufacturer, separate from the Indietory Lot Code.
Manual Receipt
Section titled “Manual Receipt”The source record created through Add Inventory without a Purchase Order or Production Order.
No Testing Required
Section titled “No Testing Required”An Item setting that causes new Lot inventory to begin as Available. Without it, newly created Lot inventory begins Quarantined. It does not create a testing Module or workflow.
Planned Output
Section titled “Planned Output”The quantity a Production Order intends to produce.
Production Instructions
Section titled “Production Instructions”The reusable definition of how an Item is made or assembled, including material and instruction steps. Production Orders use released revisions.
Production Order
Section titled “Production Order”A specific planned production run based on a released Production Instruction revision.
Purchase Order
Section titled “Purchase Order”The purchasing record for what a business plans to buy from a Vendor.
Purchase Receipt
Section titled “Purchase Receipt”The record of what actually arrived against a Purchase Order; saving it creates inventory.
QR Code
Section titled “QR Code”A two-dimensional code on supported labels that helps identify inventory and Location records with a camera or scanner.
Quarantined
Section titled “Quarantined”A Lot Status used to separate stock from normal use while it awaits review or another decision.
Quick Sale
Section titled “Quick Sale”A lightweight sale record that deducts selected inventory and records sale/cost information without payment processing or shipping.
Rejected
Section titled “Rejected”A Lot Status indicating that the Lot should not be treated as usable inventory.
Reservation
Section titled “Reservation”Inventory quantity set aside for a Production Order requirement. A reservation does not itself consume inventory.
Retest Date
Section titled “Retest Date”A Lot date used to record when the business plans to review or retest the Lot. When due, it changes an Available Lot to Quarantined. It does not imply a separate testing Module.
A permission definition that grants None, Read Only, Write, or Admin access to Modules.
Scale Factor
Section titled “Scale Factor”The value used to scale base Production Instruction output and material requirements to a Production Order’s planned run size.
Standard Cost
Section titled “Standard Cost”A manually maintained reference cost stored on an Item.
Supplier
Section titled “Supplier”The Vendor identified as the business the Item or material was purchased from.
Split Lot
Section titled “Split Lot”The workflow that moves part of a Lot’s existing inventory into a new independently managed Lot without adding or removing physical inventory. It preserves the source relationship; see Split Lot.
Tracking Type
Section titled “Tracking Type”The rule controlling whether current inventory is tracked By Item, By Lot, or By Lot + Container.
Unit Cost
Section titled “Unit Cost”The cost associated with one unit of an inventory record’s UOM.
Unit of Measure (UOM)
Section titled “Unit of Measure (UOM)”The unit used to express Item quantity, such as kg, lb, g, or ea.
A person with an individual Indietory account in a business workspace.
Vendor
Section titled “Vendor”An outside business or partner identified as a Supplier, Manufacturer, or both.
A controlled reversal of a supported transaction that preserves the fact that the transaction existed and is available only while the app can safely reverse its effect.