# Adding items to stock
There are two options for adding items to the stock:
1. The item is added to the stock automatically when you enter costs for a new item.
2. Adding item manually from the stock page.
### Adding item manually
To add a item, you need to go to the Stock page and click on the "Add" button located above the table on the right:
After clicking on the button, a pop-up window of the following type will appear:
On the image:
1. Input field for the date the item was added
2. Input field for the name of the item.
3. Item category entry field.
4. A field for entering the number of item units in stock at the time of item creation.
5. Cancel button.
6. "Create" button. The button is available only when all fields are filled in correctly.
To exclude the appearance of duplicates, when entering the name and category of the item, a list of already existing names is displayed.
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