The article history lists all stock movements of your warehouse: putaways, picks, relocations, correction postings, cycle counts and more. Each entry shows date, article, quantity, batch, best-before date, storage location, employee, booking reason and note. It answers questions like "Who booked how much from location X, and when?".

![Screenshot: Item History page with date filter, SKU search, location filter, booking type filter and the list of entries](/stock/images/article-history-list.png)

## Before you start

- Your user needs the permission for **Item History** (*Artikel Historie*). Ask your administrator if the menu entry is missing.
- Entries are created by the booking processes, for example [Putaway](/inbound/putaway.md), [Relocation](/stock/relocation.md), corrections in the [stock overview](/stock/stock-overview.md), [Cycle count](/stock/cycle-count.md) and [Picking](/outbound/picking.md).
- The booking reasons come from the default values in the [warehouse settings](/warehouse-setup/warehouse-settings.md) or from fixed texts such as "Zwischen-Inventur (Pick)".

## Step by step

1. Open **WMS › Storage › Item History** (*WMS › Lager › Artikel Historie*).
   Alternatively, click **View history** (*Historie anzeigen*) in the stock overview or the location list. The history then opens already filtered to that article or location.
2. Set the filters:
   - **Date** (*Datum*): **This Month** (*Dieser Monat*), last month (*Letzter Monat*), a custom range (*Eigener Bereich*) or all time (*Alle Zeiten*)
   - **Item (SKU)** (*Artikel (SKU)*) – search with **Search by SKU** (*SKU Suchen*)
   - **Bin location** (*Lagerplatz*)
   - **Booking** (*Buchung*) – **All booking types** (*Alle Buchungsarten*) or several types at once
3. The entries load automatically ("Loading entries..." – *Lade Einträge...*).
4. Click **Export** to download the filtered history as a CSV file (*Gefilterte Historie als CSV exportieren*).

![Screenshot: Booking type filter opened with several booking types selected](/stock/images/article-history-booking-filter.png)

![Screenshot: Item history opened from the stock overview, filtered to one article](/stock/images/article-history-filtered-article.png)

## Columns

| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Date | When the movement was booked. |
| Article | SKU and name. |
| Quantity | Positive for additions, negative for removals. |
| Batch / best-before date | Batch and best-before date of the booked stock. |
| Location | Storage location of the movement. |
| Employee | Who booked it. |
| Booking reason | The name the reason has in the list **Stock movement / reason** (*Lagerbewegung / Grund*) of the [warehouse settings](/warehouse-setup/warehouse-settings.md), e.g. "11 Pallet stored" (*11 Palette eingelagert*) or "03 Reallocation" (*03 Umlagerung*) – or a fixed text of X-Sitter such as "Storage undone" (*Storno Einlagerung*) or "Interim inventory (pick)" (*Zwischen-Inventur (Pick)*). The **Booking** filter and the CSV export use the same names. |
| Note | Additional information, e.g. the advance notice of a putaway. For alcoholic articles also the tax status, see below. |

## Alcoholic articles: taxed or untaxed

For alcoholic articles the note shows how the booked pieces split into taxed and untaxed goods – the same figures as in the [alcohol tax ledger](/stock/alcohol-tax-ledger.md):

- putaway and transfer at the scanner: "Notification: DN-DASH-261002 – of which 0 taxed / 60 untaxed",
- undone putaway: "Notification cancellation: DN-DASH-261002 – of which 0 taxed / 60 untaxed" (untaxed goods are taken back first),
- shipment at the packing station and at loading (taxed goods are used up first).

Picks and relocations have no tax status – the stock itself does not know it, the split is only fixed when the goods are shipped. Older entries, booked before X-Sitter recorded the tax status, do not have it either.

![Screenshot: Article history of HS-GIN-07 with a putaway and its cancellation, both notes ending in "of which 0 taxed / 60 untaxed"](/stock/images/article-history-alcohol-tax-note.png)

## Good to know

- The article history is also the data source for the movement charts and the top sellers and slow movers on the [warehouse dashboard](/stock/warehouse-dashboard.md).
- To check a stock difference, filter by the location and the article and look at the booking reasons.

## Troubleshooting

| Message | Cause | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| No entries found (*Keine Einträge vorhanden*) | No movements match the filter. | Widen the filter, e.g. **Date** = all time. |
| Error loading (*Fehler beim Laden*) | Technical error. | Reload the page. |