# Adjusting the quantity of stock items
Correction of the quantity of items in the stock, at the moment, is carried out in two ways:
1. Adding expenses.
2. Quantity adjustment manually from the stock page.
### Manual adjustment of the quantity of items in stock
To manually correct the quantity of items in stock, go to the Stock page and click the Quantity Adjustment button located in the "In Stock" column in the row of the required item:
Then a pop-up window will appear:
On the image:
1. The name and category of the item being modified.
2. Operation type (button): add or write off. To change the type of operation, just click on this button.
3. Input field for the number of units of item to be added or discarded.
4. The field for entering a comment to the operation.
5. The number of units of item that were in stock before the operation.
6. The number of units of item that will be in stock after this operation.
7. Cancel button.
8. Operation confirmation button.
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