Anchor and supply fields
This is a reference for anyone setting up cross-organisation trade — the organisation curating a shared anchor and the organisation publishing stock against one. It covers the three screens with fields on them, and in each case whether what you enter can be changed afterwards.
Creating an anchor
The New anchor form. Everything on it is fixed once the anchor exists.
| Field | What it means | Changeable later |
|---|---|---|
| Curator org | Which of your organisations owns the anchor. Only shown when you can create anchors in more than one organisation; with one, it's set for you. | No |
| Primary GTIN (14 digits) | The 14-digit GS1 barcode that identifies the product across every organisation. Must be exactly 14 digits, and must not already be in use by another anchor. | No |
| Display name | How the anchor is labelled everywhere it appears. Required. | No |
| Brand (optional) | The brand the product belongs to. Used to filter the anchor list. | No |
There is no edit screen and no archive screen for an anchor, so none of these can be corrected after you select Create anchor. See create an anchor for the steps.
The anchor detail page
Open an anchor from Anchors. Only the organisation that curates it can open it at all.
The top of the page repeats Display name, Primary GTIN, Brand and Created as read-only facts — there are no controls against them. Below that sits the Supply-link availability card, which shows what this anchor has published, and offers a one-off publish to a single counterpart.
| Field | What it means | Changeable later |
|---|---|---|
| Published to table — Consumer | The counterpart the figure on that row was published to. One row per counterpart. | Read-only |
| Published to table — Qty | What that counterpart can currently draw, already net of your reserve. | Read-only |
| Published to table — Reserve | A record of the reserve that was applied when the figure was published. Informational — it has already been taken off the Qty beside it. | Read-only |
| Published to table — Last published | When that counterpart's figure was last written. | Read-only |
| Consumer | Which counterpart the one-off publish goes to. Only your active trading counterparts are listed; with none, the form is replaced by a message saying so. | Chosen per publish |
| Qty available | The quantity to publish to that counterpart, overriding what published automatically. | Replaced by the next automatic publish |
| Reserve (kept back) | Writes a reserve figure onto that counterpart's published row. Nothing reads it back. | Replaced by the next automatic publish |
Two things about this card are worth being explicit about. A publish made here is a temporary override: the next automatic publish — triggered by any stock or reservation change, or the hourly safety check — replaces it. And Reserve (kept back) writes a value that no part of Yessort consumes. It is recorded on the counterpart's row and shown back to them, but it doesn't reduce what they can draw, and the quantity you type into Qty available is taken at face value. If you want to genuinely hold stock back, set the reserve on Supply to counterparts instead.
The supply screen
Supply to counterparts lists every variant your active organisation holds that is linked to an anchor, whether or not you currently have any counterparts. One row per variant, with its own Save.
| Field | What it means | Changeable later |
|---|---|---|
| Variant | The SKU and title of your own variant. | Read-only |
| Anchor | The shared anchor it's linked to, with its GTIN. | Read-only — change it by relinking the variant |
| Published | What has gone out to counterparts — shown as the highest figure across all of them, not one figure each. Reads — when nothing has been published, and shows a Paused badge in place of a number while sharing is paused. | Read-only |
| The reserve input, under the Reserve column | The quantity of your own stock you keep back before the rest publishes. One reserve applies to every counterpart alike. This is the only reserve in Yessort that changes what anyone can draw. | Yes, any time |
| Pause sharing, under the Sharing column | Stops supplying this variant to every counterpart, without losing the reserve you've set. Pausing publishes zero rather than freezing the last figure, so counterparts see the withdrawal immediately. | Yes, any time |
| Last published | When this variant last published to any counterpart. Reads Never if it never has. | Read-only |
The reserve input carries no visible label of its own beyond the Reserve column header — it's the numeric box on the row. Changes on a row don't take effect until you select Save on that same row.
See what "Available" means, where for how the reserve and published figures compare across every screen that shows them, and publish supply to a counterpart for the steps.