Stock

The food you have in your kitchen

The Stock tab

The Stock tab is where you can find and manage your stock items.

Stock items are listed in increasing order of their use-by date. All items with the same use-by date are grouped together under a heading for that date. The last heading is "No use by date".

Within each group, items are listed in increasing order of their best-before date, should they have one. This is most useful for items without a use-by date.

If a stock item name is coloured red, it has passed its use-by date, and should be thrown away. If it is coloured orange, it has passed it best-before date, and should be used soon.

Each stock item has:

a name
a brand
a location
a photo
a note icon.

It might have:

a use-by date
a best-before date
action buttons.

In the Stock tab you can:

add a stock item
edit a stock item
search for a stock item
view a stock item photo
change a stock item photo
view and edit product and stock item notes
perform an action
delete a stock item.

Stock item information

To edit a stock item

Select the stock item. When editing a stock item, you are actually editing the action that put the stock item into its current state.

To view a photo full-size

Tap on the photo.

To change a photo

Tap and hold on the photo, then choose an option. Options are:

replace the photo with a photo taken using your camera
replace the photo with a photo from your photo library
remove the photo.

The option to remove the photo will be unavailable if the stock item is using a product photo.

To view and edit notes

Tap on the note icon. The note icon shows the status of your notes:

an empty icon if there are no notes
a line-filled icon if there are some product notes
a line-filled icon with a plus symbol if there are some stock item notes.

To perform an action

Tap on an action button.

Add a stock item

It is possible to add a stock item without using a product. This might be useful for a one-off purchase.

Enter a name for the new stock item.
Choose an action from the options above the keyboard.
Select the done button.

Search for a stock item

Enter a search term into the search bar. Stock items with a name that contains the search term will be shown, and the search term will be entered into the new stock item field as a new stock item name.

If the stock item does not exist, you can add it as a new stock item. There are two ways to do this.

Method 1

On the new stock item name, swipe partially to the right.
Choose an action.

Method 2

Select the new stock item name, and edit it as required.
Choose an action from the options above the keyboard.
Select the done button.

Delete a stock item

There are two ways to delete a stock item.