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Provide or delete an inventory breakdown

Itemise any purchase posted to your Inventory account: straight from the Inventory Transactions tab. And remove a breakdown safely if you got it wrong.

beginner· 1 view· Updated 7/24/2026

When a purchase is posted to your Inventory account (from the bank feed, a bill, or a manual journal), AkountFly asks you to break it down into items so your stock register stays accurate.

You don't have to do this during upload: every un-broken-down transaction stays on the Inventory → Transactions tab with a Provide Breakdown button, and the Pending Breakdowns card counts what's outstanding.

In the breakdown modal you can upload a CSV, Excel or PDF (AI extracts the items) or add rows manually. Each row carries quantity, unit cost, a selling price and a revenue account: pick an existing account or type a new name and AkountFly auto-creates it as a 4xxx revenue GL, reused across invoices and reports.

The landed total must equal the effective inventory value of the transaction: the modal shows the target and flags any mismatch.

Deleting a breakdown: click the trash icon on the transaction row. The breakdown lines and derived items are removed and the transaction returns to pending breakdown: GL postings are never touched by deleting a breakdown.

Step-by-step

  1. 1
    Find the transaction

    Go to Inventory → Transactions. Rows missing an itemisation show Provide Breakdown.

  2. 2
    Upload or type the items

    Upload a CSV/Excel/PDF of the purchase, or add item rows manually with quantity and unit cost.

  3. 3
    Set selling details

    Give each row a selling price and a revenue account: type a new name to auto-create a revenue GL.

    New revenue GLs are created in the 4xxx range and reused platform-wide.
  4. 4
    Match the target

    Make sure the landed total equals the breakdown target shown at the bottom, then save.

  5. 5
    Delete if needed

    Made a mistake? Click the trash icon next to the breakdown to remove it. Your journals stay intact; the row simply returns to pending.

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