Confirm the van’s load.
The driver confirms the actual load, including spares. Full cylinders move from the yard onto the van.
Yard → vanStock & cylinder management
Track cylinder stock
across every location.
See full and empty stock in your yards and vans, cylinders with customers and quantities available to sell.
In the yard→On the van→With the customer
Automatic stock updates
Update stock from
deliveries and returns.
Stock updates when loads, deliveries and returns are recorded, without entering the same movements again.
Record deliveries and empties.
Delivered cylinders move to the customer. Empties come back onto the van. Holdings update with the drop.
Van ⇄ customerReturn remaining stock to the yard.
Finish the round and the remaining fulls and collected empties return to the finishing yard.
Van → yardAvailable stock
See what’s available
after existing orders.
Bottle separates what you hold from what’s already promised to orders. See what you can still sell—and set low-stock alerts against that figure.
Email alerts tell owners and admins when stock reaches the threshold they’ve set.
A simple example
Full cylinders40
Already promised− 38
Free to sell Full stock minus existing orders.2
Low stock alerts use what’s free to sell.
Cylinders with customers
View cylinders held
by each customer.
See which customers hold your cylinders, how many they have and how long they’ve had them. Holdings update as deliveries and returns are recorded.
Charge for hire or cylinder deposits? Bottle connects those holdings to your billing, too.
Explore cylinder rent & charges →Stock records and reports
View the movements
behind each stock total.
Open a product to see the movements behind its balance. Keep supplier deliveries, counts and damaged cylinders in the same record.
Explore the stock guide ↗Supplier deliveries
Record fulls arriving and empties leaving, with a delivery note or comment.
Stocktakes and damage
Enter what you counted or take damaged cylinders out of use. Keep the movements behind the change.
Reports for the office
Review stock in and out, customer holdings and van loading by driver.
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Start managing your stock in Bottle.
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