Added "Qty available", "Qty to be available" and "Qty to order" columns to “Inventory Items”

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I have now gone over the new feature in detail. This is my feedback:

  • We are talking about column logic here. The sorting based on sales orders doesn’t negate the possibility to keep the old (obsolete) sorting system using sales invoices, since they just filter existing data differently.

  • To make the program as useful as possible to as many people as possible, please keep both column sorting options. In my case, I have 3000 sales invoices with delivery notes, and 8 sales orders. I am okay with using the new column and implementing SOs from now on to benefit from new functionality, but I still want to be able to access the old column sorting, for when I want to dive into my 3000 old sales invoices and check delivery notes and the data that was available with the old function.

  • Compatibility reasons: I have been using Manager since 2017. The way I used the program over the years was sufficient for producing correct reports and filing taxes, and I relied on my accounting program to be predictable, atomic and consistent. New functionality should be added, but old functionality such as sorting shouldn’t be gimped in the process. If I adapt to this new system, how do I know that in 7 years there won’t be a new implementation that is a breaking change, and will require huge overhead to adapt to?

In summary, I welcome new functionality, but please keep the old columns available as well. It lets me look back at transactions with the old view based on sales invoices, and also start using the sales orders and benefit from the new column functionality.

To illustrate, by keeping the old column, I can see this if needed:

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This is inventory movements for 1 SKU. Very practical. Without it, I have no way of accessing this information.

The new column view is also fine, so for the sake of flexibility, please consider keeping the old column sorting along with the SO based sorting. After all, it doesn’t break Manager in any way to offer a column sorting option that is an optional tick box, when it benefits users and makes data filtration more powerful for more use cases.

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This is good point. Basically the program is reflection of how I understand things should be done and it’s based on observation of many diverse businesses.

When I’ve implemented the original Qty to deliver and Qty to receive columns, I had no understanding of what I’m doing. Back then, Sales Orders and Purchase Orders were just document generators with no tracking of anything. So the old Qty to deliver and Qty to receive columns were just the first idea I had.

New Qty to deliver and Qty to receive columns are result of finally understanding how it should have been done in the first place.

Obviously, these new columns will need to settle in and stand test of time but so far, I haven’t noticed anything that would surprise me. This makes me confident that this is the correct solution and it won’t be different in 7 years.

I agree. But generally speaking, even badly designed accounting software looks fine with small amount of transactions.

Bad design becomes obvious once you have hundreds of transactions instead of just four. What if your balance does not come to zero? Where do you even start looking for the discrepancy?

This is why changes are most painful to businesses with lower transaction volume. It doesn’t seem like I’m solving any issues because there doesn’t appear to be any issue in the first place. But for businesses with larger transaction volume, Qty to deliver became meaningless figure because it was simply always inaccurate and figuring out why was not worth the effort. So the new columns are solving this issue by making it “worth the effort” because the effort is lower.

Anyway, I’ll keep those obsolete columns around for the time being. They do not cause any issues by being there.

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Hello,

Could you consider keeping the old obsolete columns for the customer tab as well? This way, the obsolete (previous) method works both on the customer tab and inventory tab, for consistency. Users can then decide when they want to switch to the new version. Is this a possibility?

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@eko, I did what you said but the issue has not been resolved yet. I got this instead:

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Select the relevant order number (click on the down arrow of the Order number box you underlined