Stock figures that survive being checked
Most inventory problems are not counting problems. They are the gap between a number on a screen and a shelf nobody has looked at — a receipt entered late, an issue never recorded, a correction made directly to a balance with no trace of who or why.
Capitán does not store a balance you can overwrite. Every change is a transaction: goods received, materials issued to production, items shipped, stock counted and adjusted. The balance is what those movements add up to, so it can always be explained and always be traced back to the document and the person that caused it.
Costed as it moves, not at month end
Stock is held in lots, and each issue is costed as it happens using the method your company has chosen — moving average or FIFO, where FIFO consumes the oldest open lots first and takes each lot’s own cost. That means cost of goods sold is a by-product of the movement rather than a month-end calculation, and a valuation report is a query rather than a project.
Opening balances can be posted when you start, and a lot can be revalued when a landed cost or a supplier correction arrives after the goods.
Warehouses, locations and the rest of the platform
Stock lives in warehouses and locations within them, so “we have twelve” can be answered with “where”. Receipts come from purchasing, issues go to production, shipments go to sales — all the same transaction ledger, so the three never disagree about what moved.
A balance you can edit is an opinion. A balance built from movements is a record.
The costing method is a company setting rather than a rebuild, so moving average and FIFO are both available from day one. Standard costing is deliberately not offered — it needs cost rates the platform would have to invent.
