# Product expiry and related settings

### <span id="bkmrk-enabling-expiry-for--1">Enabling expiry for products</span>

<div id="bkmrk-1.to-enable-expiry-g">1.To enable expiry go to **Settings -&gt; Business Settings -&gt; Product section**. And check the “Enable Product Expiry” checkbox.</div><div id="bkmrk-">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-2.-on-enabling-produ">2. On enabling Product expiry, you can choose either “Add Item Expiry” or “Add manufacturing date &amp; Expiry Period”</div>[![image.png](https://docs.senangurus.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/Zc9image.png)](https://docs.senangurus.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/Zc9image.png)

- **“Add Item expiry”** =&gt; Choose this option if you want to directly add the expiry of the item to the purchase screen.
- **“Add manufacturing date &amp; Expiry date”** =&gt; Choose this option if you want to add the manufacturing date of the item and the expiry period. Based on the manufacturing date and expiry period it will auto-calculate the expiry date. And this expiry date can be edited. You will have to add expiry period for the product in the “Add or Edit Product” screen. And the manufacturing date in the “Add Purchase” screen.

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</div><div id="bkmrk-3.-%E2%80%9Con-product-expir">3. “**On Product Expiry**” =&gt; With this option you can set what the system should do when a product expired.</div>- **“Keep Selling”** =&gt; Choose this option if you want the application to keep selling the product even after expiry.
- **“Stop Selling n days before”** =&gt; Choose this option to stop selling the item n days before the expiry. You will have to specify the value of n (which is the number of days before to stop selling)

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</div><div id="bkmrk-4.-%E2%80%9Cstock-accounting">4. “**Stock Accounting Method**” =&gt; This feature is used to set the way the product should be sold.</div>- **FIFO (First In First Out)** =&gt; In this the old stock should be sold first.
- **LIFO (Last In First Out)** =&gt; In this the most recent purchase stock should be sold.

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</div><div id="bkmrk-for-an-example%3A">For an Example:</div><div id="bkmrk-1.-purchase-20-pcs-o">1. Purchase 20 pcs of product A on 20 March 2018. Expiry date 10 April 2018</div><div id="bkmrk-2.-purchase-20-pcs-o">2. Purchase 20 pcs of the same product A on 23 March 2018. Expiry date 8 April 2018</div><div id="bkmrk-3.-today-i-sold-22-p">3. Today I sold 22 pcs.</div><div id="bkmrk--5">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-if-the-%E2%80%9Cstock-accoun">If the “Stock Accounting Method” is FIFO =&gt; Then the Product purchased on 20 March 2018 will be deduced with 20 pcs and after that product purchase on 23 March 2018 will be deduced with 2 pcs.</div><div id="bkmrk--6">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-so-in-stock%2C-we-will">So in stock, we will have products from 23 March 2018 with 18 pcs.</div><div id="bkmrk--7">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-if-the-%E2%80%9Cstock-accoun-1">If the “Stock Accounting Method” is LIFO =&gt; The opposite of the above will happen.</div><div id="bkmrk--8">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-note%3A%C2%A0you-must-set-t">**NOTE:** You must set the required accounting method before selling the item for that accounting method to be used.</div><div id="bkmrk--9">  
</div>### <span id="bkmrk-stock-expiry-report%3A-1">Stock Expiry Report:</span>

<div id="bkmrk-1.-go-to-reports-%3D%3E-">1. Go to Reports =&gt; Stock Expiry Reports.</div><div id="bkmrk-2.-here-you-can-filt">2. Here you can filter stock “Category”, Brands, “Stock expiry date”</div><div id="bkmrk-3.%C2%A0click-on-%E2%80%9Cedit%E2%80%9D-t">3. **Click on “Edit” to modify the stock left and expiry period.**</div><div id="bkmrk-4.%C2%A0if-stock-left-is-">4. **If stock left is decreased the unit purchase price is adjusted accordingly.**</div><div id="bkmrk--10">  
</div>### <span id="bkmrk-stock-expiry-alert%3A-1">Stock Expiry Alert:</span>

<div id="bkmrk-%E2%80%93-you-can-view-stock">– You can view stock expiry alert in Homepage bottom section. Here it shows a list of products expiring soon.</div><div id="bkmrk--11">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-%E2%80%93-you-can-set-the-nu">– You can set the number of days before which the expiry alter should be shown in the Homepage from “**Settings -&gt; Business Settings -&gt; Dashboard Section**” View Stock Expiry Alert For input field.</div><div id="bkmrk--12">  
</div>### <span id="bkmrk-displaying-product-e-1">Displaying product expiry date in the invoice</span>

<div id="bkmrk-make-sure-the-produc">1. Make sure the product expiry feature is enabled as mentioned above.
2. Go to invoice layout and enable “Show Product expiry”
3. If the product expiry date is added when adding Purchase or Opening stock then when making sales it will display the product expiry dropdown. Select the expiry date which you want to sell. Then in the print invoice, it will show the expiry date.

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