StockBrik Overview
StockBrik is Brikly's stock intelligence Brik. Instead of asking you to scan barcodes or log every bag of flour as it arrives, it works out what is on your shelves from data Brikly already holds - the invoices coming in, the sales going out - and keeps itself honest with quick stock counts. No scanners, no warehouse software, no second job entering stock movements.
StockBrik is currently in early access. If you would like to try it, get in touch at support@brik.ly.
The core idea
Your stock level is not a mystery - it is arithmetic. StockBrik runs that arithmetic for you, continuously:
- Deliveries in - every matched line on a processed invoice adds stock. 2 x 16kg bags of flour on Tuesday's invoice means 32kg lands in your flour estimate, automatically.
- Sales out - every sale draws stock down through your recipes. If a victoria sponge uses 350g of flour per cake and you sold six, that is 2.1kg gone. Sales come from a connected POS automatically, or from a 60-second end-of-day Daily Sales log.
- Adjustments correct - dropped cakes, staff meals, and the milk you grabbed from the supermarket are captured with quick adjustments.
- Counts anchor - a stock count resets each estimate to what you actually counted, so drift never piles up.
The result is a live, estimated stock level for every tracked ingredient, with an honest label telling you how confident the estimate is and where it came from. See How estimates work for the full picture.
What StockBrik needs
CostingBrik is required. StockBrik is built on top of your CostingBrik data: ingredients give it something to track, recipes tell it how much of each ingredient a sale consumes, and processed invoices tell it what was delivered. If you are new to Brikly, start with CostingBrik and invoice processing - a few processed invoices give StockBrik everything it needs to begin.
A POS connection is recommended but not required. With a connected POS and items linked to recipes, sales flow in automatically. Without one, the Daily Sales page turns your till's end-of-day report into the same signal in about a minute. StockBrik always uses the best data available per ingredient and tells you which source it used.
Feature areas
- Stock Counts - mobile-friendly counting with blind entry and pack-aware quantities. Completing a count produces an accountant-ready £ stocktake valuation and re-anchors your estimates.
- Stock Levels - one row per tracked ingredient: estimated quantity, confidence badge, days remaining, status, last count, and last delivery.
- Daily Sales - the quick end-of-day sales log for operators without a POS, or running a hybrid setup.
- Adjustments - quick plus/minus corrections with a reason, including deliveries that never went through an invoice.
- How estimates work - what feeds the numbers, what the confidence badges mean, and why counts matter.
Choosing what to track
StockBrik starts from your CostingBrik ingredient library, so there is nothing to set up twice. You can switch tracking off for ingredients you do not want stock estimates for - the pinch-of-salt items that are never worth counting - and keep the list focused on the ingredients that actually move your money: coffee, milk, flour, butter, meat, cheese.
No barcode scanners, on purpose
Stock systems built for supermarkets assume someone will scan everything in and out. In a busy cafe or bakery nobody has time for that, so those systems quietly go stale. StockBrik takes the opposite approach: it leans on the paperwork you already do (invoices, the till) and asks for your time only where it genuinely helps - a quick count now and again to keep the estimates anchored to reality.
If your invoices are already flowing through Brikly, StockBrik has months of delivery history to work from on day one. Start your first stock count to give every estimate a solid baseline, then let the deliveries and sales take it from there.