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Set up and use AskBiz Factory Captures — submit production photos, manage approvals and not-yet-releasable holds, track batches, quality, downtime, shifts, waybills, yield, and production runs, and maintain a full audit trail across your production floor.

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Getting Started with Factory CapturesLearn what Factory Captures are, how the factory sector is really set up, and understand the five capture types — intake, output, packaging, wastage, and dispatch.
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Getting Started with Factory CapturesLearn what Factory Captures are, how the factory sector is really set up, and understand the five capture types — intake, output, packaging, wastage, and dispatch.
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How to Submit a Factory CaptureStep-by-step guide for floor workers: log in to pos.askbiz.co, open the capture dashboard, take a photo, select a capture type, add any optional detail, and submit for supervisor approval.
5 min
Approving and Rejecting CapturesHow supervisors and managers review the pending approvals queue, approve captures with one tap, reject with a mandatory (and final) reason, and what happens to the audit trail after each action.
5 min
Batch Tracking, Quality Checks, and Downtime LoggingHow to scan a batch through its checkpoints, log a quality defect, and report machine downtime in AskBiz POS's Factory sector — three floor-level tools that save directly to your production record.
5 min
Production Shifts and WaybillsHow to run a production shift with a live output target and log a dispatch waybill with on-time and hold-status tracking in AskBiz POS's Factory sector.
5 min
Choosing Your Factory TypeWhat AskBiz's 12 factory-type categories are, what each one covers, and what picking one now genuinely changes in your production tracking — yield ranges, automatic holds, and expiry.
5 min
Factory Roles and PermissionsUnderstand the factory-specific permission flags in AskBiz POS — the five camera.* capture flags, capture.approve, hold.clear, and more — and how to assign them to your staff.
6 min
Not-Yet-Releasable Holds (Curing, Regulatory Clearance, and Custom Waits)How AskBiz automatically holds production that isn't ready to ship yet — curing soap, setting concrete, ripening cheese, lab-testing water — plus how dispatch warnings and manual clearance work.
5 min
Packaging Captures: Turning Bulk Output into Sized UnitsHow to log packaging captures — the fifth capture type — for turning bulk production into sized, sellable units like jerry cans or bags, and how it differs from Output and Dispatch.
3 min
Marking Output and Wastage as SoldHow to record a buyer and price directly on an output or wastage capture — for genuine co-products, like press-cake or bran, that shouldn't be filed as ordinary waste.
3 min
Understanding Your Production Efficiency and Yield RangeHow AskBiz scores your output-to-intake ratio against a realistic range for your specific factory type and product, instead of one flat threshold — plus the reference ranges for all 12 types.
5 min
Production Runs and Mid-Process IntermediatesHow to tie a group of captures together as one production run for accurate per-run yield, and how to flag a genuinely sellable mid-process product like parboiled paddy.
4 min