Stock Take - Freeze Stock while in process/until completed

Ideas & feature requests
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I would like to suggest the facility to Freeze Stock while currently in the Stock Take process to prevent any stock movements until a Stock Take has either been Completed or Cancelled.

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Locking for month end
Racking during stock take
Partial Stock Take & Stock Take Freezing
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Thanks Jon, this is a great suggestion!

It’s easier said than done to ask everyone not to make changes until you’ve confirmed the Stock Take is complete, but then there’s still the hurdle of everyone remembering that they need to pause what they’d normally do! We can really see the benefit of this.

If anyone else would find this useful, please can you give this a vote with the button above.

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Thanks for raising this Jon, would be a very valuable feature for us as well

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I’ve run out of votes but would otherwise vote for this as we’ve had issues with the packaging team racking beer during stock take, then once the stock take file is uploaded it has removed the new stock! Also we have to go round the whole team and advise them that stock take is happening so they don’t assign or remove any inventory, and ensure all orders are picked for the day of stock take. It can get messy in a busy operation.

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Thanks, Hazel.

We use the votes to help us prioritise, so they’re really important. If this is more important to you than something else that you’ve voted for, then I’d recommend removing your vote from something else and putting it here instead. You can have 20 votes on incomplete requests at any time (and when a request is done, you can re-use that vote again). For more on how this works, please see Why do I only have 20 votes? :smile:

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This would (should) be a feature of any sensible stock-take implementation.
See this FR also Improve stock take to allow a web (non-CSV) based solution

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Great idea Jon. I think this feature is ideal for big teams hard to reach sometimes during the stock takes days. We would be really glad to use it. :wink: Please, Luke give it a whirl.

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This would be great. Very difficult for us as a large team to manage stock takes without this feature

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Could be super useful! Has any progress been made on this?

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This would be a very helpful feature

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This would go really well with a GUI stocktake tool.

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Hi! I wondered if there is any progress made with the stock take feature? The current process is very painful and not user friendly at all.

Cheers

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I’m sorry, but there’s no update to report on this yet. We’ve been busy working on other requests, but do hope to get to this in the future.

Please see How do I know if there’s been an update on a feature request?

Thank you :smile:

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Any update on this please? It would be really useful

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We’re working on some stock take tool improvements and hope to include this as part of that project. We’ll let you know when we know more.

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Stock take freezes are now here! :tada:

You can start a freeze when you begin a stock take, or at any time from the stock takes page. While it runs, stock cannot be moved, packaged, dispatched, assigned to deliveries, received in or used up anywhere in your brewery, so nothing shifts underneath you while you count.

Your sales team isn’t blocked, though: ordering carry on exactly as normal throughout, because placing an order only affects available quantities rather than the stock you physically hold.

There’s a guide covering exactly what a freeze does and doesn’t lock: Breww | Stock take freezes | Help guides

The full announcement is here: Stock takes just got much easier to run