I don't seem to be able to reply in old threads, so with apologies, starting a new one addressed to anyone with a patience for FAQs.
I'm interested in using Ledger 3. Before jumping in, I would like to fully understand how to track non-comparable items that move through inventory, if this is possible. Scenario: - Order custom equipment from vendor for reimbursement or sale to specific customer. Take delivery from vendor, quality check, deliver to customer. Track item identifier e.g serial number, price paid, vendor invoice, customer identifier. I understand that this is not ledger's core use case, and that any solution would involve metadata, possibly structured, on transactions. I'm interested in what the current capabilities are for using metadata for these purposes. For users with commodity inventories (e.g. comparable items?), how would a LIFO or FIFO be modeled with ledger, as suggested below? Does it involve writing external logic to examine past inventory transactions, generating input for the next transaction? Thanks, Jeff On Aug 8, John Wiegley wrote: > Something that I'm going to implement this month is the ability to use > commodity "notes" as a price indicator. For example: On Aug 9, John Wiegley wrote: > Ledger does not automate "lot" selection in any way, such as LIFO or FIFO. > These must be manually modeled by the user, if desired. On Aug 26, Zack Williams wrote: > Before you ask, there is no good way in Ledger to track inventory - > while it can do commodity pricing, if you were to purchase an > identical item at different prices (for example, if you bought 5 items > for $10/each, then 20 for $9/each) there's no way to differentiate > between the items. It's really intended for securities. Inventory accounting http://groups.google.com/group/ledger-cli/browse_thread/thread/8d44c9589edd3536/3cd29289cf68ec3f invoice example http://groups.google.com/group/ledger-cli/browse_thread/thread/76fa2e1802300423/eb1e9f6b8c45e0b0
