Purchases against sales
Monthly, in thousands of naira (example)
PurchasesSales
Reading the numbers
See how stock and sales move over time.
Manifest turns every receipt, transfer and sale into a trend you can read at a glance. The charts below use example figures to show the kind of view a business gets.
Stock value trend
Value of stock on hand, in millions of naira (example)
Stock by location
Share of stock value held at each location (example)
Main store, 45%Warehouse, 20%Kitchen chiller, 20%Bar, 15%
Example figures for illustration only. Your own reports will show your business's real numbers.
How it works
Built around the way stock actually moves.
A small set of ideas covers ordering, moving and selling stock across as many locations as you run.
Locations and sub-locations
A location is anywhere stock sits, such as a warehouse, shop or store. A sub-location, like a bar chiller under a main store, has its own stock, transfers and sales.
Products
One shared catalogue with SKU, category, unit, barcode, cost, sell price and a reorder point. Low-stock items show up as alerts. Discontinued products are archived, so their history stays intact.
Purchasing
Purchase orders record what you ordered from each supplier. When stock arrives, you receive it line by line, and short or over deliveries are recorded exactly as they happened.
Transfers
Stock leaves one location the moment a transfer is created, and it shows as in transit until the destination receives it. In-transit stock is never counted at either end.
Dispatch and sales
Record stock leaving for sales or deliveries using a line-item form or quick Scan and Issue. Stock can never go negative, and short lines are flagged before you submit.
Stock adjustments
Correct on-hand quantities for a cycle count, damage, loss or theft, with a reason and an optional note.
Movement ledger
Every change is a permanent, timestamped event. Stock on hand is always the total of everything that happened, so every number can be traced back to its source.
Team and access
Everyone sees what they need, and nothing more.
Admins can see every location and every module, including sell prices. Staff are assigned to a location and given access level by module: none, view or edit.
Admin
Full access to every location and module, the only role that sees sell prices, and the only role that can change Settings.
Staff
Assigned to one location, with access set module by module. Presets such as Sales, Store officer, Warehouse staff and Viewer give a starting point.
Optional PINs
A 4-digit PIN stops someone tapping a colleague's name on a shared device. It is a deterrent, so the link itself should only go to your team.
One shared record
Everyone works from the same live inventory.
Manifest is one shared record per business. Everyone who opens the link sees the same warehouse, stock counts and orders, and every change saves the moment it's made. There is no separate save step.
A second business needs its own copy of Manifest, with its own locations, products, team and history.
Printing and exporting
Share it on paper or in a spreadsheet.
Print a purchase order, transfer note, dispatch note or any report tab as a clean, branded page. CSV export opens the data as selectable text, ready to copy into a spreadsheet.
Getting started
Ready in a few steps.
A new copy opens to an account setup screen with no demo data. Once the steps below are done, the business is ready to place its first purchase order.
- Create the first account. This becomes the admin.
- Set the business name and logo in Settings.
- Add locations, and any sub-locations such as chillers or display points.
- Add suppliers.
- Add products, including opening stock at each location.
- Add team members with the location, module access and a PIN for shared devices.
Interested in Manifest?
Request a quote.
We do not publish fixed prices, because every project is scoped to the client. Tell us how many locations you run and we will reply with a quote.