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Track packaged inventory through stages

Packaging a batch creates lots. Lots move through your post-packaging stages on the pipeline board until they are Ready for Sale.

When a batch is packaged, FourFoxes creates a lot for each package type in its packaging runs: the lot code (the batch code), units produced, units remaining, production date, and an expiration date when the product type has a shelf life set. A second run of the same package type adds its units to the same lot.

See your lots. Open Inventory, then Packaged Inventory. The Packaged Inventory Summary shows each product by stage (Filled, Labeled, Sealed, Ready for Sale), and the Lot Drill-down below lists every lot, with filters for Product, Status, and Stage.

Set up stages (Admin or Owner). Every account starts with three stages: Filled, Labeled, and Sealed, each with an expected duration. From the pipeline's Manage Stages page you can add your own, like QA Hold or Bottle Conditioning. Then give each product type an ordered workflow: click Set up stages next to it on that page (the button reads Edit once it has a workflow), or Stage Workflow on the product type's page, add the stages, and click Save Workflow. New lots start in the first stage of their product type's workflow. A product type with no workflow sends its lots straight to Ready for Sale.

Move lots along. Open Inventory, then Stage Pipeline. The board shows a column per stage plus Ready for Sale. Advance a lot with its Move to button, or drag it to the next column. Lots can only move to the next stage in their workflow, and stages that run long show an Overdue badge. Anyone on the team, including Production Team, can advance lots. Reverting a ready lot to an earlier stage, or marking it not ready, is an Admin or Owner action and asks for a reason.

Ready for Sale means every stage in the lot's workflow is complete, or its product type has no workflow. Only ready lots can be shipped.

Stage Pipeline board The Pipeline Dashboard shows one column per stage, Filled, Labeled and Sealed, plus a Ready for Sale column. Each lot card shows its lot code, product, package and units remaining, with a Move to button for the next stage. One lot in Labeled carries an Overdue badge. Pipeline Dashboard Move packaged lots through post-packaging stages and monitor bottlenecks in real time. Finished Goods Summary Expiration New Shipment Manage Stages Filled 2 SH-1031 Drag Smoked Habanero Woozy — 5 fl oz · 144 remaining Move to Labeled GV-0412 Drag Garlic Verde Jar — 8 fl oz · 60 remaining Move to Labeled Labeled 1 SH-1027 Overdue Smoked Habanero Woozy — 5 fl oz · 120 remaining Move to Sealed Sealed 1 MC-0388 Drag Mango Chipotle Woozy — 5 fl oz · 96 remaining Move to Readyfor Sale Ready for Sale 1 SH-1019 Smoked Habanero Woozy — 5 fl oz · 38 remaining Assign to stage
The Stage Pipeline: lots move one stage at a time until they reach Ready for Sale.
Lots outside any stage show as Unassigned

A lot that is not ready for sale and sits in no stage, such as one marked not ready, appears in the pipeline's Unassigned column. A Member, Admin, or Owner can pick a stage under Assign to stage to start tracking it again.

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