Please see the newest explanations at Inventory items - Quantity columns
In this case specifically:
Recreating Delivery Notes and Goods Receipts
If you are using
Inventory Locations, then you will be usingQty on handcolumn. But sales invoices, purchase invoices, credit notes and debit notes do not have an effect onQty on hand.You can copy all your sales invoices and credit notes to equivalent delivery notes. And all your purchase invoices and debit notes to equivalent goods receipts.
To convert sales invoices to delivery notes, go to
Sales Invoicestab, then click onCopy to - Delivery Notesbutton in bottom-right corner.
The screen will show all sales invoices which can be copied to equivalent delivery notes. You can select them all, then click
Copy to - Delivery Notesbutton.Do the same under
Credit Notes,Purchase InvoicesandDebit Notestabs if required.Creating Delivery Notes from “Qty to Deliver” figure
If you have a balance to clear in
Qty to deliverorQty to receivecolumn, you can create delivery note or goods receipt to clear the balance.To automate this process, go to
Customerstab and enableQty to delivercolumn. This will show youQty to deliverfigure for each customer.
Click on the figure under
Qty to delivercolumn, select all inventory items that have been already delivered and clickNew Delivery Notebutton.This will copy inventory items from
Qty to deliverto new delivery note. Delivery note will decrease yourQty to deliverand decrease yourQty on hand.Do the same under
Supplierstab if applicable except the column is namedQty to receiveand you would be creatingNew Goods Receipt.Goods receiptswill decrease yourQty to receiveand increase yourQty on hand.This is essentially how you fix your
Qty to receive,Qty to deliverandQty on handbalances. This will have no effect on yourQty ownedor figures on your financial statements.

