Every field on a waste record — the warehouse and kitchen tabs, the five reasons, and whether a write-off touched your stock — plus who can read and file one.
Real help from real food people
Chef Diego runs a real food plant. If this page didn't get you there, tell us — a person reads every message.
An auditor stops at a lot that reads four cases short of its receipt and asks where they went. You open the entry you filed the morning the pallet tipped — four cases, Disposal, the cold room, your name on it — and the answer sits on one screen. That screen is a . Open Waste records under Inventory to page through your own. Line+
Three running totals sit at the top of the list — Total, Warehouse, and Kitchen — counting every waste record your company has filed, whichever tab you're reading. Below them, three tabs split the feed:
Each tab carries the same count as the total above it. Records read newest first by the date the waste happened, not the date you keyed it. When a tab has nothing to show, it reads No waste records found.
Every row leads with the record's number — WR-000001, WR-000002, and on — and
its reason badge. On the combined All view each row also carries a
Warehouse or Kitchen badge; open a single type and that badge drops away,
since every row on the tab shares it. The rest of the row is a line of context:
when it happened, who was responsible, the product and lot, and the amount that
left — cases for warehouse, a weight for kitchen.
The kitchen tab has a second door
The Production navigation carries its own Waste records link. It opens this same list already filtered to Kitchen, so the line crew lands on their own records without paging past the warehouse's.
Open Filters above the list to narrow it. You can match a waste number, a date range (Date from and Date to), an Employee, a Product, a Lot number (its own or its alternative), or a Reason. Apply runs the filter; Clear all appears once anything is set and returns the tab to its full list. A small dot on the Filters heading marks when a filter is active.
Open any row and the record splits into three panels.
The details that hold for every record, warehouse or kitchen:
What the write-off was taken against — and this is where warehouse and kitchen part ways.
A warehouse record shows:
A kitchen record shows:
The audit line, the same on every record:
Every record carries exactly one reason. It's a label on the record, not a switch on your stock — the write-off itself works the same whichever you pick:
A filed record is mostly fixed. Open one and select Edit, and Bettr lets you change only the date, reason, responsible employee, and notes — and says so plainly, warning that the stock was already written off when the record was created. The lot, the location, and the quantity can't be touched.
A record is never unwritten
There's no delete, and editing never restores stock. A write-off you shouldn't have made is corrected by a fresh record or by an inventory count that puts the stock back — the original entry stands, the way an audit trail has to.
Access is set per role, under Warehouse & Inventory in the permission catalog: