Production Receipts
A Production Receipt is the step that turns a batch's recorded output, eggs, milk, honey, meat, into costed, sellable inventory. Nothing a batch produces becomes stock until it's confirmed through a receipt.
What a Production Receipt does
Production or harvest events are recorded against a batch first. A Production Receipt reconciles the quantity actually received into inventory against what was recorded, catching any variance before the output enters your stock balance.
Receipt status
A receipt moves through pending, ready, partially_received, and received as quantities are confirmed. A receipt that fails to post shows as failed and can be retried by users with the retry permission; cancelled and reversed cover withdrawn or corrected receipts.
Note
received receipt has posted its quantity and cost to inventory. A pending or partially_received receipt has not yet, or has only partly.Auto vs. Manual confirmation
Depending on your organisation's configuration, a receipt can confirm automatically once the recorded output matches expectations, or require a manual confirmation step from a supervisor before it posts to inventory. This is a setting your administrator controls, matching how much oversight your operation needs at this stage.
Costing
Each receipt applies a costing method, standard cost, batch-actual cost, or a manually entered cost, configured per item. The resulting unit cost, and the finished-goods GL account inherited from the item's category, are what make the output real, costed inventory rather than just a quantity on a report.