Inventory Items: External / Third-Party Sale, Disposal, and Archive Status

It would be useful to have a way to mark inventory items as sold or otherwise disposed of without requiring them to be sold to a Splynx customer.

Currently the Sell action requires selecting a customer and is clearly designed for subscriber sales. A common alternative lifecycle is:

Purchased → In stock → Customer / Network site → Returned to stock → Sold externally

For example, we may upgrade customers from older item such as PowerBeam 5AC, return those units to stock, and later sell excess used equipment through eBay or another third party.

We still want to retain the item record, serial/MAC, purchase history, and movement history; but the equipment is no longer owned by us and should not remain In stock.

The current workaround is to move it to a stock location such as Sold Externally / Disposed, but the status still remains In stock, and those items continue to affect dashboard statistics and inventory totals.

It would be useful to have:

- A native Sold externally / Disposed status that does not require a customer
Or
- Configurable terminal inventory statuses

-An archive function for equipment that has permanently left company ownership

- Archived/disposed items should remain searchable with full history, but be excluded by default from active inventory counts, dashboard statistics, and inventory totals unless an Include archived or similar filter is selected.

- Optional disposition fields such as date, notes, sale channel, reference/order number, and sale amount would also be useful.


The main goal is to retain historical records without creating fake customers, deleting equipment history, or having disposed equipment continue to appear as active inventory.