# Enter opening stock

> Enter the goods you already have as opening stock when you add a product. After that, stock changes through purchases, sales and adjustments.

**Opening stock** is the goods already in your shop before you started using Tukri. You enter it once, on the **Stock** step, when you add the product. It only sets the starting count: no money leaves any account and nothing is owed to a supplier.

## Before you begin

- You need permission to add products. The **Owner**, **Admin** and **Staff** roles all have it.
- Count or weigh the goods first. The field is not available later.

## Enter the opening stock

The steps are the same on a computer and a phone.

1. Open the new product form and fill in the name, unit and prices on the **Basics** step. How: [Add a new product](https://tukri.bd/help/add-a-product).
2. Choose **Next**. The **Stock** step opens.
3. In **Opening stock**, type how much you have now, in the product's unit: how many pieces, or how many kilograms. Decimals are allowed, such as 12.5.
   ![The Stock step on a phone: opening stock 25, low stock alert 5, and the batches and loose selling tick boxes below](https://tukri.bd/help-center/en/opening-stock/stock-phone.webp)
4. If you like, fill in **Low stock alert** beside it: Tukri warns you when the stock is at or below this number.
5. Choose **Save now**, or go on with **Next** and choose **Save** at the end.

![The same Stock step on a computer: opening stock 25 and low stock alert 5, with the Next and Save now buttons](https://tukri.bd/help-center/en/opening-stock/stock-computer.webp)

## After saving

The product appears in the product list and at the till with this stock. In your total stock value it is counted at the product's **Cost price**.

![The product list on a phone: Flattened Rice 1kg with 25 pcs in stock](https://tukri.bd/help-center/en/opening-stock/list-phone.webp)

## Opening stock, purchases and adjustments

- **Opening stock**: goods you already have. Entered once, when the product is added. No money or supplier is involved.
- **A purchase**: goods you buy. Stock goes up, the product's cost price becomes this purchase's price, what you paid leaves its account and the rest is owed to the supplier. See [Record a purchase](https://tukri.bd/help/record-a-purchase).
- **A stock adjustment**: for damage, loss or a wrong count. Each one needs a reason. See [Adjust stock](https://tukri.bd/help/stock-adjustment).

## Opening stock for special products

- **Products with variants**: do not enter opening stock on the Stock step. Enter it on each variant's row instead. A variant added later takes opening stock on its new row only. See [Product variants](https://tukri.bd/help/product-variants).
- **Products with batches and expiry**: when **Track batches & expiry** is ticked, the opening stock also asks for the **Batch / lot no** and **Expiry date**. See [Batches and expiry dates](https://tukri.bd/help/batches-and-expiry).
- **Many products from a CSV file**: the file's opening stock is used for new products only; it never changes the stock of a product you already have. See [Import products with a CSV file](https://tukri.bd/help/import-products-csv).

## If something goes wrong

**There is no opening stock field when editing.** That is expected: opening stock is only for adding a product. The **Stock** step of the edit form has just the **Low stock alert**.

![The Stock step when editing a product on a phone: only the low stock alert, no opening stock field](https://tukri.bd/help-center/en/opening-stock/edit-stock-phone.webp)

**I forgot the opening stock, or entered the wrong number.** [Adjust the stock](https://tukri.bd/help/stock-adjustment): if you entered too little, choose **Stock in (+)**; too much, **Stock out (−)**; with the reason **Count correction**. You can write "opening stock" in the note.

**New goods have arrived. Where do I add them?** Not as opening stock: [record a purchase](https://tukri.bd/help/record-a-purchase), so the cost and the supplier are kept too.

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- Source: https://tukri.bd/help/opening-stock
- Language: English
- In বাংলা: https://tukri.bd/bn/help/opening-stock
- Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
- Site index for language models: https://tukri.bd/llms.txt