Inventory Debt: Understand debt

This section of Inventory Debt covers Understand debt. The pages are listed in the order you'd usually need them.

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What SKU.io records when goods ship without stock behind them — also called negative inventory or overselling — and how that differs from a backorder	What inventory debt is, and when you want it instead of a backorder
How SKU.io puts a cost on units that shipped before any stock existed, and why that cost changes once the stock arrives	What a debt shipment costs
What books when the goods leave, what books when the stock arrives, and what the Inventory Debt Clearing account holds in between	What posts to your ledger
Which stock arrivals repay an inventory debt claim, in what order, and why some stock never counts	How debt repays itself
How the company setting, a warehouse's own setting and a product's own switch combine — and why a product can only ever make the rule stricter	Which policy applies to a shipment
Where inventory debt shows up in valuation, profit, availability and a product's stock history — and where it deliberately does not	Debt on your reports
What SKU.io records when a sales channel reports a shipment it could not match to stock, and which of the two outcomes mark the order Out of Sync	Debt the sales channel created