Low-stock alerts

A consumable can carry a reorder threshold — the count at which you want to be reminded to restock. lazyit uses it to flag low items in the list and to raise a notification when an item crosses below the line. Set the threshold on the consumable form (see Consumables & categories); it is optional, and a consumable with no threshold is never flagged as low.

What “low” means

An item is low stock when its on-hand count is at or below its reorder threshold (and it has a threshold set). It is out of stock at 0. On the list, the stock figure turns amber when low and red when out; the filter Low stock only narrows the list to just the items at or under their threshold so you can build a shopping list at a glance.

Setting a threshold does not change any stock — it only decides when an item counts as low.

The notification

When a movement takes a consumable from above its threshold to at or below it, lazyit raises a low-stock notification in the in-app notification bell. The nudge names the item and shows how many are left versus the minimum, so you know what to reorder.

Two details keep it from becoming noise:

• Only on the downward crossing. The alert fires on the movement that first drops the item to or below its threshold. An item that is already low and keeps bouncing around (take one, put one back, while still under the line) does not keep re-alerting.
• At most once a day per item. If a consumable crosses down again on a later day, you get a fresh reminder; repeated crossings on the same day collapse into one.

The alert is best-effort: it never blocks or undoes the stock movement itself. If a notification can’t be raised for any reason, the movement is still recorded — you simply don’t get that one nudge.

Acting on it

A low-stock alert is a reminder to restock, not an automatic order — lazyit does not reorder for you. When new stock arrives, record an In movement (see Stock movements), and once the on-hand count rises back above the threshold the item drops out of the low-stock view.