Adding and editing items

Every item in your Inventory is really two things: the product — milk, with its category, unit, price and barcodes — and the entry — this particular milk, two cartons, in the fridge, expiring on Friday. The form shows both together; this page explains which is which, and the quickest way to change each.

Adding an item

1. On the Inventory tab, tap Add — or Scan ” + ” to start from a barcode (see Scanning barcodes).

2. Type the name in Item name. InvenDo suggests products it already knows, first those starting with what you typed, then those containing it; pick one and its details fill in. If you type a name that matches exactly, the same happens.

3. Set the Quantity — it starts at 1 — and, for food, the Expiry date.

4. Check the category and the storage place: InvenDo pre-fills the category you used last and the storage place you’re browsing.

5. Tap ✓ in the top-right corner.

If you already have that product with the same dates in the same place, the quantities are simply added together. Anything else — a different expiry date, a different storage place — becomes a separate entry, so two batches of milk stay two rows.

The form, top to bottom

Field	What it’s for
Item name	The product’s name. Renaming it renames the product everywhere.
Minimum quantity	When you want a reminder to rebuy — see Minimum quantity and low stock.
Quantity	How many of this entry. Use the − and + buttons or type; decimals are fine (2.5 kg). Below it, the unit.
Expiry date switch	Off for things that don’t expire; the date fields disappear.
Manufacture date · Days · Expiry date	See Expiry dates and notifications.
Category · Storage · store	Where it belongs, where it is, and where you usually buy it. Each opens a picker with a + for creating a new one on the spot.
Add image	A photo from the gallery or the camera — a Premium feature.
Description	Anything worth remembering: brand, which shelf, “the good one”.
Unit of Measure · Price	The unit you count in, and what one costs.
Unit size	What one unit holds — 1 pack = 900 g. See Units and unit size.
Barcodes	Scan or type the pack’s barcodes; several per product are fine.

Fields you never use can be switched off for the whole list under Features and Fields, or for one category under Enabled fields when editing a category.

Product or pack?

Quantity, Storage, the dates and the opened state belong to this entry only. Everything else — name, minimum quantity, category, store, photo, description, unit, unit size, price, barcodes — belongs to the product and changes for every entry of it, in the Inventory and on the Shopping List alike. That’s also what you’ll find under Manage → Catalog; see Catalog.

Everyday changes: the quick panel

Tap an item in the list and a panel slides up with the essentials: the quantity (with − and +), the minimum quantity, when it was opened, and four buttons — Edit, Move, Need to Buy, Delete. Changes here are saved as you make them; there’s no ✓ to tap. Edit opens the full form, and so does dragging the panel all the way up.

Two swipes work straight on the list:

• Swipe left takes one off the quantity — useful when you’ve just used something. No confirmation, so swipe with intent.
• Swipe right puts the item on the Shopping List, asking how many.

Editing and deleting

Open the full form with Edit to change anything else. Note that the form doesn’t show the barcode row when editing; barcodes are managed in the Barcodes section at the bottom.

Delete (in the quick panel, or via Select items for several) removes that entry. The product itself stays in the catalog with its details and barcodes, so the next time you buy it, everything is remembered.

Good to know

• If Delete items with zero quantity? is on in Features and Fields, an entry disappears the moment its quantity reaches 0 — from the quick panel, a swipe, or the form.
• On the web there’s no scan button in the Barcodes section — type the number instead. Photos come from a file on your computer.