# Navigating Inventory

The tab bar, the All Modules menu, the search bar and the two layouts Inventory can wear.

Inventory opens on the Overview dashboard, with a tab bar across the top and one button that reaches everything else. Learn those two and every module afterwards works the same way.

![The Inventory Overview screen. An amber header carries the app grid, the Inventory app pill, a search box and the account avatar. Below it a tab bar holds a single Overview tab on the left and an All Modules button on the right. The body shows Total Stock Overview, Stock Status, Stock Movement, Stock by Warehouse, Stock Aging and Stock by Category.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/overview/dashboard.png)

*One tab to start with, and All Modules at the right of the tab bar.*

## Highlights

- **All Modules** is the full menu, and the button sits at the right of the tab bar.
- **Star a module to pin it** as a tab you can return to in one click.
- **Cmd+K, or Ctrl+K**, puts the cursor in the search bar from anywhere.
- **Two layouts**, Modern and Classic, switched under your avatar.
- **Every list remembers how you left it**: the view you chose and the widths you dragged.

## All Modules

**All Modules** opens the full Inventory menu, grouped exactly as the product is organised, with a search box for finding a screen by name.

![The All Modules panel open over the Inventory Overview screen, headed All Modules and Inventory, full menu, with a Search modules box. The screens are grouped into Other Modules, Items, Inventory, Sales and Purchases, every row carries a star, and the foot reads star modules to add them to your favourites and customise your tab view experience, beside a Save button.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/getting-started/all-modules.png)

*The full menu, grouped as the product is. The star pins a module as a tab.*

| Group | Screens |
| --- | --- |
| Other Modules | Overview, Reports, Documents |
| Items | Items and Rate Lists |
| Inventory | Stock Adjustments, Picklists, Packages, Shipments, Stock Transfers |
| Sales | Customers, Sales Orders, Invoices, Payments Received, Credit Notes, Sales Returns |
| Purchases | Vendors, Expenses, Purchase Orders, Purchase Receives, Bills, Vendor Payments, Vendor Credits |

> **Tip:**
>
> **Star the five or six you live in**
>
> Starred modules become tabs, so the screens you use daily are one click away. Press **Save** when you are done starring; the panel does not apply the change on its own.

> **Note:**
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> **Inventory's menu is not Finance's menu**
>
> Quotes, recurring invoices, advance invoices, recurring bills, recurring expenses, Taxes and Accountant are Finance screens and do not appear here. The records they produce are still shared: a recurring invoice raised in Finance shows in the invoice list you see here.

## Two layouts

Inventory ships two navigation shapes and remembers which you chose. Both reach the same screens.

**Modern** (the default)

- Yes: A tab bar across the top
- Yes: All Modules for the full menu
- Yes: Starred modules become tabs
- No: Every module listed on screen at once

**Classic**

- Yes: A left sidebar listing every module
- Yes: Groups expand in place
- Yes: Drag a module to reorder it
- No: Tabs across the top

Both live under your avatar at the top right, beside the light and dark theme switch. The choice is remembered in your browser rather than on your account.

## The search bar

The search bar sits in the header on every screen, and its placeholder tells you where you are: **Search in Inventory** on the dashboard, **Search in Items** once you are on the item list. What it searches does not change with the screen.

![The header search box holding the word Hydraulic, with a results panel open beneath it headed Inventory. Results read Hydraulic Hose Assembly R2AT labelled sales_and_purchases, Hydraulic Oil ISO VG46 20 Litre Drum with SKU IRN-LUB-HYD46 labelled inventory, Hydraulic Cylinder 63mm Bore with SKU IRN-HYD-CYL63, Hydraulic System Commissioning, and Hydraulic Hose Assembly 1/2in R2AT with SKU IRN-HYD-R2AT12, each tagged Item on the right.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/getting-started/search-results.png)

*One query, and every result carries its SKU and its usage. Variants come back in their own right.*

- **Press Cmd+K, or Ctrl+K**

  Focus lands in the search bar from wherever you were. Escape gives it back.
- **Enter a name, an SKU or a document number**

  Part of any of them will do. A customer name finds the contact and the documents raised against them at the same time.
- **Select a result**

  It opens the record itself, not a filtered list containing it.

## List screens

Every module opens on a list, and every list works the same way: filter it, sort it by selecting a column, search within it, and open a row.

![The Items list under a tab reading Items, headed Items with the subtitle Manage your inventory items, goods, and services. Below are list and grid view icons and an All filter. The table columns are Item Name, Structure, Usage, Selling Price, Cost Price, Stock on Hand, Status and Created At, and the foot reads showing 1 to 25 of 44 results with a rows-per-page control.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/items/items-list.png)

*A list screen: view switch and filters above, sortable columns, paging at the foot.*

- **The view you chose**: List or grid, remembered per module. Picklists can stay in grid while Items stays in list.
- **The widths you dragged**: Drag a column edge and that width is kept for that list, on that browser.
- **Where you were**: Come back from a record and the list is as you left it rather than reset to the first page.

## Item variants in a list

An item with variants shows as one row with a chevron, and its variants open beneath it as indented rows. The parent carries the name and a count of its variants and nothing else, because a parent is a grouping label rather than something you can stock or sell.

> **Warning:**
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> **These are remembered in your browser, not on your account**
>
> The layout you chose, the theme, your starred modules, your column widths: all of it is per browser. A different computer, or a private window, starts from the defaults.