Record damaged or spoiled stock

Take broken, spoiled or expired goods out of stock with a damage, and keep the list of what was lost and why.

2 min read Updated 19 Oct 2026

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Eggs crack, milk goes sour, a crate gets dropped. Recording it as a damage takes it out of your stock and keeps a list of what was lost and why, separate from your count corrections. By the end you will have recorded one.

Record a damage

  1. Open Damages › Create Damage.
  2. Choose the Warehouse and the Date. Both are required. Choose the warehouse first: the product search looks in it.
  3. Add the products. Type a name or code in Scan/Search Product by Code Or Name, or click the scan button, and pick it. Each row shows the product's Stock there now.
  4. Enter how many were damaged in each row's Qty, with − and + or by typing.
  5. Say what happened in Note, for example "Dropped crate on delivery".
  6. Click Submit. The stock comes off at once, and you land on the damages list.
Create Damage: Warehouse Default Warehouse, the date, two lines (Eggs with a stock of 411 and Milk with 245, each with its quantity), and the note "Dropped crate on delivery".
Each line shows the stock before the damage. Qty is how many were lost.

See past damages

Damages › Damages lists each one with its Date, Reference (DM_ and a number), Warehouse and the number of products in it. Filter, Export PDF and EXCEL are above the list, and each row's Action opens, edits or removes it.

The damages list with DM_1111: 2026-10-19 at Default Warehouse, 2 products.
Every damage is kept with its note.

A damage takes stock out and keeps the record. It books nothing in Accounting: if you want the loss in your accounts, record it there as well.

Use a damage for goods you lost, and an adjustment for counting errors (Count and adjust stock), never both for the same goods.

What's next

Count and adjust stock.

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