# Restaurant Inventory & Purchasing

Source: https://getnimki.com/features/inventory-purchasing/
Updated: 2026-10-11

> Manage restaurant ingredients, suppliers, purchase drafts, received stock, waste, counts and stock movements in Nimki.

## A little more order behind the scenes.

What came in, what is on hand, and what needs attention. Bring the everyday work of ingredients and purchasing into the same business workspace.

### Know the recorded balance.

See ingredient units, on-hand quantities, minimums and recorded costs.

### Receive with intention.

Prepare a purchase draft, then receive it when the goods arrive.

### Keep the reason.

Movement records retain the action, reason and person who recorded it.

## Start with ingredients and suppliers.

Give stock a consistent name and unit. Keep supplier details beside purchase records, and use search and filters to find what you need.

- Ingredients and stocking units
- Supplier records
- On-hand and minimum quantities

## A purchase is not stock until it arrives.

Save the supplier invoice as a draft. Explicit receiving updates stock when the goods are in hand. Recording an external supplier payment remains a separate action from the restaurant cash drawer.

## Count, record and review.

Record waste and physical counts, then review the movement history when something needs explaining. Eligible manual entries can be reversed while the original remains in history.

## See what needs attention.

Review low stock, count reviews and menu impact. Ingredient-linked menu details help you understand the context; changing a manual menu availability flag does not itself change ingredient stock.

## Questions & answers

### Does saving a purchase draft increase stock?

No. Stock changes when you explicitly receive the purchase. This keeps planned purchases separate from goods that have arrived.

### Are low-stock alerts sent by SMS?

Nimki has stock attention views and supported in-app alerts. Automated SMS or email stock alerts are not promised.

## Keep exploring

- [Restaurant Menu Management](https://getnimki.com/features/menu-management/)
- [Restaurant Reports & Insights](https://getnimki.com/features/reports/)
- [Restaurant POS Setup Checklist](https://getnimki.com/guides/opening-checklist/)

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