I want to find out the total number of inventory items I have on hand right now,
is there a report I can make to get these numbers.
Also, quantity on hand by supplier or custom fields as well.
Export the listing of the Inventory Items tab.
Quantities by supplier are not possible. Manager makes no distinction among inventory items by their source. If it is considered to be an inventory item, it is considered to be like all others under the same code/name.
What do you mean by quantity by custom field?
Okay, I exported it into Excel and did a Sum.
What do you mean by quantity by custom field?
I run a bookstore for second hand and new books, so I have a custom field to see what condition a book is in. I wanted to find the total number of used books in my inventory.
But the export to excel did it.
Isn’t it possible to add totals to the line at the end of inventory? where total cost shows?
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That’s an idea. It only makes sense for the quantity columns, but it could provide useful information after searching on various things, especially if custom fields are shown as columns. I have moved this topic to the Ideas category.
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yea just for the quantity columns, thanks! 
Why these reports are needed at all?
Under Inventory Items tab you can get list of all inventory items by their location.
If you need to see how many (or which items) are at customer or supplier site, this information is under Customers or Suppliers tab.
You can export those tables to spreadsheet and print that if desirable.
Because there is a spot already to generate the number.
There is the total cost being calculated. You would just have to use the other spots, for the qty on hand etc… I feel like it would be useful for small businesses. And you are not using any additional space, so nothing is lost.
Yeah, the only issue is that different inventory items could have variety of units of measurements.
It’s just not useful to show total 16 for 5 kg of sugar and 11 liters of milk. I’m not saying totals are bad idea but Manager needs to take that into an account so the figures are always meaningful. If they are not meaningful, they are just unnecessary clutter which I’m trying to avoid.
aaah, yes. I didn’t think of that!
i have 3 warehouses and i want to check the quantity and total cost of every warehouse. Is there any option on that? coz what i have here is i can only generate the quantity without a cost. Thanks
The only way to do that is a three-step process:
- Export the Inventory Quantity by Location report and paste into a spreadsheet.
- Export the Inventory Items tab list to a spreadsheet to obtain the current average costs of items.
- Combine the two data sets so as to insert columns in the first spreadsheet multiplying location quantities by the average costs. During this step, you will probably have to sort the spreadsheets to place the items in the same order. (The Inventory Item list could be in item code order or alphabetical order by item name, depending on your setup. The Inventory Quantity by Location report will be in alphabetical order by item name.)
Remember that the report will become obsolete for all locations the next time you purchase anything for any location, because average costs are calculated across the entire business, not by location.