📉 Record inventory waste
📌 Where can I find the Waste tab?
📌 How do I record a new waste entry?
📌 What happens if you record waste for a dish?
📌 How do I edit or delete a waste entry?
📌 Frequently asked questions about waste
Waste lets you record inventory losses due to theft, breakage, personal consumption, or expiration directly from haddock.
Recording these losses will help you:
- Keep a history of what gets lost in your day-to-day operations.
- Better understand the differences between your actual stock and your theoretical stock.
- Deduct those quantities from your Theoretical Inventory in the Waste column.
What is inventory waste?
Waste is any product or dish that you will no longer be able to sell or use as planned.
For example:
- A product that has expired.
- A broken bottle.
- An ingredient consumed by staff.
- A theft or unrecoverable loss.
In haddock you can record these situations from the Waste tab so they are reflected in inventory control.
Where can I find the Waste tab?
Inside the Inventories module you will find a specific tab called Waste.
From there you can:
- Record a New waste entry.
- Search previous waste items.
- Filter by date, reason, or item type.
- Edit or delete already created records.
💡 If you do not see the Waste tab, this feature may not yet be enabled in your account.
💡 To create, edit, or delete waste entries, you need edit permissions for Inventories.
How do I record a new waste entry?
- Go to Inventories > Waste.
- Click New waste.
- Choose the Item type you want to record:
- Product
- Dish
- Search for and select the corresponding item.
💡 You can search by product or dish name.
- Indicate the Waste date.
‼️ You can only select today or an earlier date.
- Select the Reason:
- Theft
- Breakage
- Personal consumption
- Expiration
- Enter the Quantity.
💡 The unit of measure is filled in automatically based on the item you chose.
💡 If the item is measured in units or portions, the quantity is recorded with whole numbers. If it is measured in kg, L, or other continuous units, you can use decimals.
- Add Notes if you want to provide more context.
- Click Confirm to save the waste entry.
Once created, the waste entry will appear in the list and will be grouped by its waste date.
What happens if you record waste for a dish?
When you record waste for a dish, haddock not only saves the lost dish record.
If that dish has a configured recipe costing, you will also be able to see the detail of the affected ingredients, that is, how much of each ingredient has been lost because of that waste.
This is useful because:
- It helps you understand the real impact of the loss.
- It allows that waste to be included in the calculation of your Theoretical Inventory.
- It gives you more context when reviewing stock variances.
💡 If the ingredient breakdown does not appear, check that the dish has the recipe costing correctly configured in haddock.
How do I filter my waste?
The Waste tab includes a search field and filters so you can review history more easily.
You can:
- Search by product or dish name.
- Filter by date range.
- Filter by Item type.
- Filter by one or more Reasons.
This lets you, for example, review only the waste caused by expiration in a specific week or separate product losses from dish losses.
How do I edit or delete a waste entry?
Each recorded waste entry includes an action menu from which you can Edit or Delete it.
Edit a waste entry
When you edit a waste entry, you can modify:
- The Reason
- The Quantity
- The Notes
‼️ The selected item and the waste date cannot be changed once it has been created.
If you need to correct the product, dish, or date, we recommend deleting the waste entry and recording it again.
Delete a waste entry
If a waste entry was recorded by mistake, you can delete it from the same menu.
When you delete a waste entry, it will stop appearing in the list and will no longer be taken into account in the theoretical inventory.
❓ Frequently asked questions about waste
Q: Can I record waste for products and dishes?
A: Yes. When creating a waste entry, you can choose the Item type and record both Products and Dishes.
Q: Does waste affect the theoretical inventory?
A: Yes. Waste is taken into account in the calculation of the Theoretical Inventory and is reflected in the Waste column from the last inventory onward.
Q: Can I set a future date on a waste entry?
A: No. The waste date can only be today or a previous day.
Q: What happens if I do not see affected ingredients in a dish waste entry?
A: The ingredient breakdown appears when that dish has a configured recipe costing in haddock.
Q: Can I change the product or date after creating the waste entry?
A: No. If you made a mistake, delete the record and create a new waste entry with the correct data.
💡 After recording your waste, review your Theoretical Inventory to better understand how it impacts the expected stock of each product.
Updated on: 23/04/2026
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