Stock locations help you and your staff identify where inventory items are physically located in your restaurant. Moreover, stock locations allow users to perform stock counts on a per-location basis, making it easier to space out inventory counts while also saving time when locating your items.
Accessing and adding stock locations
- Log in to the Inventory module with your Lightspeed credentials.
- From the navigation menu, select Stock management > Stock locations.
- Click View stock locations (default) to see a list of your locations.
- Click New stock location.
- Enter a stock location name (e.g., Cellar).
- Click Save to finish, or click Save and create another to add more.
- (Optional) Delete unnecessary stock locations by clicking the trash can beside it.
- (Optional) Change the name of stock locations by clicking Rename.
Linking items to specific locations
- Log in to the Inventory module with your Lightspeed credentials.
- From the navigation menu, select Stock management > Stock locations.
- Click View items to see an overview of all inventory items and the location of those already linked.
- To change the location of a single item, click Edit locations. To edit multiple items, select the checkboxes beside the desired items and click Link to location.
- Select any location to which the item should be linked.
- Click Link locations to items to save and finish.