Stock Transfers: Main Stock vs Stock Pool [How transfers work]

Stock Transfers: Main Stock vs Stock Pool (New Behaviour)

Stock transfers no longer instantly add stock to the destination location’s Main Stock.

Instead, a transfer creates Stock Pool at the destination — items that are physically there, but still owned by the original location (sometimes described as in transit / on loan / allocated to another site). Pool stock is essentially: “stored here, but not counted as ours.”

Key definitions

• Main Stock: Stock that belongs to this location and is available here.

• Stock Pool: Stock held at this location but owned by another location (or reserved to return there).

How transfers work now

1. Transfer to another location → goes into the destination’s Stock Pool
   It does not increase the destination’s Main Stock because ownership hasn’t changed.

2. Return to the origin location → becomes Main Stock immediately
   When pooled stock goes back to its home/origin location, it leaves the pool and becomes normal stock again.

3. When shipping out, the system uses the “rightful owner” pool first
   If a location is sending stock back to a location that already owns pooled stock there, the system pulls from that pool first.
   If more is needed, it uses the sender’s Main Stock — and those extra items arrive as pool stock owned by the sender.

Please watch this video explainer