What is assetization?

Taking something you bought as stock and turning it into a tracked asset. The laptop sitting in the store as quantity-on-hand becomes a register entry with a custodian, a location and a movement history of its own.

Does it just reclassify the record?

No. The stock leaves inventory the same way any other stock leaves it — through an adjustment with a checkout against a specific quantity at a specific warehouse and location. The asset is created when that adjustment is approved, so the stock movement and the asset both exist and both are explainable.

Can I convert several units at once?

Yes, as a quantity pool. Ten identical monitors can become one pooled asset record of ten rather than ten separate entries, and the pool gets its opening balance from the approved quantity. Where each unit needs its own custodian and history, convert them individually instead.

What stops someone converting stock that is not there?

The source stock row is locked and checked before anything is written. If the chosen warehouse and location do not hold enough available stock for the quantity being converted, the conversion is refused rather than allowed to go negative.

Which plans include it?

Pro and above. Basic keeps the asset register and stock control as separate registers.

Stock → Asset

It arrived as stock.
It is going to be
an asset.

The five laptops you bought are quantity-on-hand until somebody is issued one. Then it stops being stock and starts being a thing with a custodian, a location and a history. Assetization is that crossing, and it goes through the front door.

Before

Inventory

Quantity on hand · 5
Nairobi · Rack D
Valued in stock
No custodian

Gate

Adjustment

+ approval

After

Asset register

Asset · 1 of 5 converted
Custodian · assigned
Movement history begins
Linked to its adjustment

Why it goes through a gate

A conversion that quietly reclassified the record would move value out of stock with nothing to show for it. Sending it through the normal adjustment path means the stock departure is a stock departure — reasoned, approved, and visible in the same place as every other one.

The crossing, step by step

What actually happens.

Pick the stock, not the item

You choose a quantity at a specific warehouse and location — the actual row that holds it — rather than an item in the abstract. That row is locked while the conversion is written, so two people converting the same stock cannot both succeed.

Choose how it will be tracked

Individually, where the thing needs its own custodian and its own history, or as a quantity pool where ten identical monitors are better held as one record of ten. An individual conversion is exactly one unit, and the system refuses any other number rather than quietly rounding.

It leaves inventory the normal way

The stock departs through an adjustment with a checkout against that row — the same path any other stock departure takes, carrying a reason and waiting for approval. Nothing is special-cased, which is why the stock movement is explainable afterwards.

Approval creates the asset

When the adjustment is approved the asset is created and, for a pool, given its opening balance from the approved quantity. Approve a different quantity than was requested and the asset follows what was approved, not what was asked for.

Both records point at each other

The asset records the adjustment it came from and the adjustment records the asset it produced, each by number. A year later, the question of where this came from is answered by the records rather than by whoever still remembers.

Two shapes

One record, or one each?

The answer is decided by whether the units need separate histories, and it is worth getting right at the point of conversion rather than afterwards.

Individual

One asset, one history

For the things that get issued to a person, move between sites, and eventually get retired on their own terms. A laptop, a vehicle, a generator.

Exactly one unit converts. Approve any other quantity and the conversion is refused with a message telling you to use a pool instead — it does not round, and it does not silently create one asset out of three units.

Quantity pool

One record, counted

For identical things you track as a population rather than individually. Forty classroom chairs, ten identical monitors, a box of radios.

The pool is created with an opening balance taken from the approved quantity, so the register starts from what was actually signed off rather than what was requested.

What it refuses

Three things it will not do.

Convert stock that is not there

The source row is checked against the quantity being converted before anything is written. Short stock is refused rather than allowed to go negative.

Reach into another workspace

The item behind the stock row is re-checked against your workspace, not assumed from the row that was posted.

Let two people take the same stock

The row is locked for the duration of the write, so simultaneous conversions resolve one at a time instead of both succeeding.

Questions

Before you convert.

What is assetization?: Taking something you bought as stock and turning it into a tracked asset. The laptop sitting in the store as quantity-on-hand becomes a register entry with a custodian, a location and a movement history of its own.
Does it just reclassify the record?: No. The stock leaves inventory the same way any other stock leaves it — through an adjustment with a checkout against a specific quantity at a specific warehouse and location. The asset is created when that adjustment is approved, so the stock movement and the asset both exist and both are explainable.
Can I convert several units at once?: Yes, as a quantity pool. Ten identical monitors can become one pooled asset record of ten rather than ten separate entries, and the pool gets its opening balance from the approved quantity. Where each unit needs its own custodian and history, convert them individually instead.
What stops someone converting stock that is not there?: The source stock row is locked and checked before anything is written. If the chosen warehouse and location do not hold enough available stock for the quantity being converted, the conversion is refused rather than allowed to go negative.
Can I trace an asset back to the stock it came from?: In both directions. The asset records the adjustment it was created from, and the adjustment records the asset it produced, each by number — so a year later the register answers where this came from without anyone remembering.
Which plans include it?: Pro and above. Basic keeps the asset register and stock control as separate registers.

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