# Merchandise Receiving

### **Overview**

Go to **CAS** --> **Transactions** --> **Inventory** --> **Merchandise Receiving**

You have created your items and now need to make this your inventory (you need to add quantity to the items). This can be done a number of ways, including through the receiving function. Receiving is done by vendor - you cannot receive items from multiple vendors in the same receiving.

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Merchandise receiving provides merchants the ability to create inventory quantity. This could be a continuation of inventory for items already found in the system or new opening balances. This is the process that tells the CAS that items entered are found in inventory for a specific location. Without receiving the items, a store would not have them available to sell and will not be found in the local tables for the POS or quantity for inventory tracking. With a receiving,  items and quantity are found in the locations that has been selected from the drop downs found in the UI (user interface). Merchants can use the Merchandise Receiving for a number of reasons, the majority of users will use it for recording quantity of items received, it also has functionality to receive merchandise directly from a Purchase Order. So for merchants weekly, monthly, or individual vendors orders can be received and associated to a store or warehouse in a timely fashion.


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