View stock adjustment history
About stock adjustment history
With a Square for Retail or Square for Restaurants Plus or Premium subscription, you can gain insights into the flow of your inventory by viewing historical adjustments.
Before you begin
Your stock can be adjusted in three ways:
Deduction: adjusts for damaged, lost and sold items.
Deduction or addition: re-counted items.
Addition: adjusts for received, restocked and transferred items.
View stock adjustments
You have two options to view your stock adjustments from your Square Dashboard.
Inventory management: Check your stock adjustment history from inventory management if you want to get a holistic picture of all of the stock adjustments made for your catalog.
Item library: Use the item library option if you want to check the stock adjustment history for a single item.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard, then go to Items & orders > Items > Inventory management > History.
- Select a date range, location(s), and adjustment type from the dropdown menus to filter your search. You also have the option to narrow your search by product using the search field to the right.
- Click on an event to see who made the adjustment, what it cost, and which locations were affected.
In addition to your stock History log under the Inventory Management tab, you can review a summary of stock adjustments from your item library, for individual items.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard, then go to Items & orders > Items > Item library.
- Select an item and access the item details page.
- Click View stock history under Variations.
- Review the stock adjustments and click Done.