Inventories - For clients to keep track of the location and amount of items they have internally

Step 1. Go to Inventories > Inventories Locations and then Inventories, this is to make sure you have included Inventory Locations and Inventories** before you can start adding Inventory items**

**Inventories is the name while inventory items are the quantity of each item

Step 2: Inventories Locations - this is the physical location of your inventory items

Go to Inventories > Inventories Locations > Add new inventories location

Choose if there is a specific organisation or all organisation > Add location name (could be the address of the particular organisation)

If there is a specific organisation, there will be an additional field for you to specify which organisations.

Step 3: Inventories - this refers to the name of the inventories and not the quantity of the inventory item

Go to Inventories > Inventories > Add new Inventory

Input the inventory name and you will be able to choose who are the permitted issuers as well as requesters

Once the specific option is selected, there will be additional fields for you

-Specific positions means for all the employees who are in that position (Eg. HR executives)

-Specific employees means for some exceptional employees who will be permitted to issue the inventory items even though they are not in the specific position chosen

Here, you will also have the option of "Require acknowledgement", which means if you will require your employee who received the inventory item to acknowledge via the Payboy system that they have received it physically.

Step 4: After setting up Inventory Locations and Inventories, you will be brought into Inventory page (refer to screenshot), you will then be able to add items, each item you add to it will be adding the quantity of that particular inventory.

Note: You will only be able to add the items one by one, Quantity field is up for feature request.

Step 3. While adding the inventory item, you will be able to choose which organisation the item belongs to or which location will the item be allocated.

Step 4. After adding all the inventory items, you will be able to view the status and all the different Inventory items you have under All inventory items. Here, you will be able to have some actions: Reserve/Issue

For example, you already purchased some laptops but they have not arrived, you are reserving those items for the employees.

Another example is when you have the items available and you are reserving for a new hire.

How to reserve an item:

Step 1: Go to All inventories Items > Click on the Reserve button next to the item you're looking to reserve

Step 2: Select which employee you want to reserve the item for and click Reserve

Step 3: After reservation, you will be able to Issue the item or cancel the reservation accordingly. You will also be able to see the inventory item movement.

How to issue an item: you can issue an item to any employee if the item's status is Available, you can only that item to one particular employee when the status is Reserved

Step 1: Go to All inventories > Click on the Issue button next to the item you're looking to issue

Step 2: Select which employee you want to issue the item to, select the Issue time and click Issue

If the "Require acknowledgement" is checked:

Step 3: After, you will be brought to this page to see the details, and you will notice "Issue acknowledgement" will be Pending

Step 4: The employee receiving the item will have to acknowledge the issuing of items, via Inventory > My Inventory Records, and Click "Acknowledge"

Step 1: Go to All Inventory Items > Click on the eye icon of the particular item you wish to see the movement of

Step 1: Go to Inventories > My inventory requests > Click on "+ Request Inventory"

Step 2: Select the Inventory item you are requesting for and submit

Current available quantity: It will show up accordingly once you have chosen the inventory item

TAKE NOTE:

-You will only be request for items that belongs to your organisation

-You will be able to still submit the request even if the current available quantity is 0

Step 3: The status will show Pending, your manager/admin will have to reserve/issue/deny your request before carrying on.

From the manager/admin's account: Go to Inventories > Inventory Requests

You will be able to click into the request to see the details and decide your next action.

If you are denying the request, you will have to include the reason for denying. The employee will receive a notification that their request has been denied and why.