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Device Inventory

Device Inventory is a dedicated list for individual phones/handsets tracked by IMEI — separate from the main Products/Inventory catalogue, since each unit here is an individually identifiable device (by IMEI) with its own warranty, owner and status, rather than a bulk-counted catalogue item.

📍 Menu path: Mobile → Device Inventory
👤 Who uses it: All roles with the Billing feature enabled

Overview

Each device has two IMEI fields, brand, model, color, storage, RAM, purchase date, warranty length (months), an auto-computed warranty expiry date, an optional linked customer, purchase/selling price, a status (IN_STOCK, SOLD or REPAIR) and free-text notes.

Warranty Expiry is computed automatically from Purchase Date and Warranty Months at the moment a device is created — it is not recalculated if you edit Purchase Date or Warranty Months afterwards (see Troubleshooting).

This list is completely independent of the Products and Inventory pages — devices here are not linked to the billing/POS catalogue, so selling a device here does not create a Quick Billing sale or deduct any Products/Inventory stock.

Before You Start

Step-by-Step Guide

1 Add a new device

  1. Open Mobile → Device Inventory and click "+ Add Device".
  2. Fill in IMEI 1 (required) and Brand (required), plus IMEI 2, Model, Color, Storage, RAM, Purchase Date, Warranty (months) and Customer Name as known.
  3. Click "Save" — the device is created with status IN_STOCK and its Warranty Expiry is calculated automatically from Purchase Date + Warranty Months.

2 Update a device's status or details

  1. Click "Edit" on any device card to reopen the form pre-filled with its current values.
  2. Change Status to SOLD once the device is sold, or to REPAIR if it goes into your own repair workflow, then click "Save".

3 Find and monitor devices

  1. Use the search box to filter by brand, model, IMEI or customer name as you type.
  2. Use the ALL / IN_STOCK / SOLD / REPAIR chips to filter the list by status.
  3. Each card shows a live "Warranty: Nd left" or "Warranty: Expired" line, highlighted red once 30 days or fewer remain.

4 Remove a device

  1. Click "Delete" on the device card and confirm — this permanently removes the device record.

Every Field & Button, Explained

Field / ButtonWhat it does
IMEI 1Required. The device's primary IMEI number.
IMEI 2Optional secondary IMEI, for dual-SIM devices.
Brand / ModelBrand is required; Model is optional free text.
Color / Storage (GB) / RAM (GB)Optional free-text specs shown on the device card.
Purchase DateThe date you (the shop) acquired the device — used as the start date for the warranty calculation.
Warranty (months)Length of warranty in months from Purchase Date; defaults to 12 for a new device.
Warranty ExpiryComputed once, at creation time, as Purchase Date + Warranty Months. Displayed as days remaining or "Expired" on each card.
Customer NameOptional free-text owner name — not linked to the Customers module.
Purchase Price / Selling Price (₹)What you paid for the device and what you plan to (or did) sell it for — informational only, not linked to billing.
StatusIN_STOCK, SOLD or REPAIR. Set manually; nothing else in the app changes it automatically.

Tips & Best Practices

Troubleshooting & FAQ

I changed a device's Purchase Date or Warranty Months, but the Warranty Expiry / days-left figure did not change.
Warranty Expiry is computed once, when the device is first created, from Purchase Date and Warranty Months at that moment. Editing either field afterwards updates the stored value but the app does not recompute Warranty Expiry from the edited form on save — only a new device gets a freshly computed value. Delete and recreate the record if the expiry date needs to be corrected.
Marking a device SOLD here did not create a sale or show up in Reports.
Device Inventory is independent of Quick Billing/Sales — changing Status to SOLD only updates this record. If you actually sold the device through the till, record that sale separately in Quick Billing/Sales; this page will not do it for you.
I deleted a device by mistake.
Deletion is immediate and permanent (after the confirmation prompt) — there is no undo or recycle bin; you will need to re-add it, and its original Warranty Expiry calculation cannot be recovered unless you still have the original Purchase Date.