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# How to Increase/Reduce Stock

The stock is auto reduced as your Bill inventory items. However sometimes, you may want to manually reduce stock due to expiry, damage, etc. Such kind of manual adjustments can be done if you have the necessary permissions.

**a.** Go to **Inventory**

**b.** Select **Inventory Item** | click on **-Reduce Stock** | **Reduce Stock Quantity by** typing in manually | **Save.** If Batching is enabled for the Inventory, then you need to provide Batch details too. You can back date the stock reduction.

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**c.** Similarly you can click on the **“Increase Stock”** option, in case you want to add stock. If Batching is enabled for the Inventory, then you need to provide Batch details too. You can backdate the stock increase.