Welcome to BeerSmith! > Shopping and Inventory > Understanding Inventory Management

BeerSmith has an integrated set of inventory, shopping list and recipe tools for making it easy to manage your inventory. The three key views used in inventory management are the Shopping List, Inventory View and Recipe View. The basic flow is shown below:

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Starting with a recipe, you can add all of the ingredients from a recipe to the shopping list using the Add to Cart button from any open recipe. Once you have purchased the ingredients in your shopping list, select them and use the Add to Inventory button to add them to your inventory view. Finally, when you go to brew a recipe you can use the Remove Inv button in any open recipe to remove ingredients found in the recipe from inventory. The three basic steps in this cycle are detailed below:

Adding All of the Ingredients for a Recipe

o	Select the recipe you want to add either by opening it or selecting it from your My Recipes view

o	Select the Add to Cart button - this will automatically add the ingredients needed for this recipe to your shopping cart

o	Go to the Shopping List to select your shopping list and view or edit the ingredients added

Adding Items Purchased to the Inventory

o	After you have purchased a given set of items you can add them to the Inventory view

o	Select the items you want to add to inventory - you can select multiple items using Control/Command-Click and Shift-Click with the mouse

o	Select the Add to Inventory button on the ribbon

o	The items will be added to your inventory view in the quantities you purchased

o	If desired you can now remove these items from your shopping list using the Delete button

Removing Ingredients from Inventory When Brewing

o	Open the recipe you are going to brew

o	Select the Remove Inv button from the ribbon

o	Note that if you try to remove ingredients twice within a short period you may be asked to confirm that you intended to do so