# Take stock out by hand, move it, or put it back

> For units no marketplace accounts for: samples, gifts, the owner's own use, breakages. Take them out to a category, or move them to the right product.

Category: Stock and cost of goods · Web page: https://bookalyze.com/guides/stock-taken-out

## Take out of stock

**Where in Bookalyze:** Inventory → Stock lots → a lot → Take out of stock

- How many, the day they left, and a note.
- Where the cost goes: **Inventory losses and write-offs** (the default, for lost or thrown away), **Owner drawings** (the owner took or sold them privately), or any expense or equity category.

It posts the lot's cost to that category, out of Inventory, on the day.

## Move to another product

For units that are really another product (a mixed-up label): they leave this lot and become a lot of the other product, at the same cost. Nothing posts.

## Put back

Each take-out or move shows under its lot with **Put back**, which reverses it.

## Related guides

- [Stock in one place: your books against Amazon, Noon, Walmart and your count](https://bookalyze.com/guides/stock-overview.md): One row per product: units in your books, what Amazon, Noon and Walmart hold, what you counted yourself, and the difference.
- [Landed cost and FIFO stock lots](https://bookalyze.com/guides/landed-cost-and-lots.md): What a unit really cost you: the supplier's price plus its share of freight, duty, brokerage and prep. Each delivery becomes stock lots, and sales use the oldest first.
- [Cost of goods sold, month by month](https://bookalyze.com/guides/cost-of-goods-sold.md): Add your opening stock once, then post each month's cost of goods sold per marketplace at FIFO cost. Returns come back into stock; losses are written off.