# Reading the Widgets

What each widget is counting, and which of them obey the date range.

Sixteen widgets ship in the default arrangement. They fall into three groups and a set of rankings, and the Manage Widgets panel files them under Stock and Charts.

## Value

| Widget | What it counts |
| --- | --- |
| Total Stock Overview | The whole holding, split into available and reserved |
| Stock by Warehouse | A total distributed across depots, with your primary one starred |
| Stock by Category | The same total grouped by item category, with each category's share |

> **Warning:**
>
> **Reserved is included in what you are holding**
>
> Total Stock Overview is what you have, not what you can sell. The available figure beside it is the one that answers a delivery promise.

## Health

![Stock by Warehouse, Stock Aging and Dead Stock, and Stock by Category side by side. Stock Aging splits the catalogue into Fresh at 32 items and 97 per cent, Slowing at one item and 3 per cent, and Stagnant and Dead Stock at zero.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/overview/dashboard-value-and-health.png)

*Stock Aging has four buckets, and the two on the right are the ones worth acting on.*

| Widget | What it counts |
| --- | --- |
| Stock Status | The catalogue split into in stock, low stock, out of stock and inactive |
| Stock Aging / Dead Stock | Holdings bucketed as Fresh, Slowing, Stagnant or Dead Stock |

Low stock is decided by each item's reorder point, so Stock Status is only as useful as those numbers are.

## Rankings

![A row of four ranking widgets. Top Selling Items lists items with units sold, quantity on hand and revenue, showing a Three-Phase Motor with 20 sold and 11.7 thousand pounds of revenue. Top Stocked Items lists a Deep Groove Bearing at 375 in stock. Recent Stock Adjustments lists adjustments with their reasons Expired Items, Audit Adjustment and Found Items and statuses Adjusted or Draft. Top Returns lists sales returns against customers with an Approved status.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/overview/dashboard-rankings.png)

*Top Selling Items shows quantity on hand beside units sold, so a fast mover running low is visible in one row.*

| Widget | Ranked by |
| --- | --- |
| Top Selling Items | Units and revenue over the period, with stock on hand alongside |
| Top Stocked Items | Quantity on hand |
| Top Returns | Recent sales returns |
| Top Vendors | Purchase value or units received, switched with a By Value control |

## Activity

![A row of four recent-activity widgets. Recent Shipments lists shipments with their customer, date and a status of In Transit or Shipped. Recent Receives lists purchase receives against vendors, all marked Draft. Top Vendors shows an empty state reading no vendor purchase activity in this period. Recent Packages lists packages with their customer and a Shipped status.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/inventory/overview/dashboard-recent.png)

*An empty widget says why it is empty rather than showing nothing, which is usually the date range talking.*

| Widget | What it lists |
| --- | --- |
| Stock Movement | Stock in against stock out over the period, with in, out and net totals |
| Recent Stock Adjustments | The latest corrections, with reason and status |
| Recent Shipments | The latest outgoing shipments, with customer and status |
| Recent Receives | The latest purchase receives, with vendor and status |
| Recent Packages | The latest boxes prepared, with customer and status |
| Recent Activity | All of those in one feed. Switched off in the default layout |

## Which widgets obey the date range

- **Obeys the range**: Stock Movement, Top Selling Items, Top Vendors and the four recent lists. They count events, so a period is meaningful.
- **Ignores it**: Total Stock Overview, Stock Status, Stock by Warehouse, Stock by Category, Stock Aging and Top Stocked Items. They read the position now.
- **Carries its own**: Stock Movement and Top Vendors have a second picker beside their title, which wins for that widget alone.

> **Note:**
>
> **One widget is deliberately absent**
>
> Stock Value Trend is not in the default layout, because the figures behind it are a placeholder until the underlying snapshot exists. It is left out rather than shown flat.