Inward Challans

A register of the material a principal has left with us: what was received, what has been worked on, and what went back. It never enters stock, because it is not ours — only the labour is billed.

Switch: Settings > Jobs > Inward Challans.

Where it appears

Job work shell: Material With Us in Navigation and the Receive Material quick action. Billing charges the work done, not the goods.

Flow

flowchart TD
    A[Receive Material
principal · description · quantity] --> B[(Inward challan, open)] B --> C[Job done against it] C --> D[Return the worked material] D --> E{All of it back?} E -->|yes| F[(Challan closed)] E -->|part| B C --> G[Bill the labour only]
Custody, not ownership — the material is on the register and never in the stock ledger.

Screens

Switching off. Warns at save when inward challans are still open, holding material that is not ours — the settings page says how many.