Two of the most audit-sensitive things a hotel warehouse does aren't about stock value at all: knowing what arrived at the door, and proving the cold chain held. Both are usually kept on paper that goes missing exactly when an inspector or an insurer asks for it. Livion keeps both as records you can export on demand.

The operational problem

Parcels arrive at reception or the loading bay, get signed for on a clipboard, and there is no searchable record of what came in or when.
Fridge and freezer temperatures are noted on a laminated sheet, occasionally skipped, and impossible to produce as a report months later.

What Livion does instead

Parcels management is a straightforward arrival log. You register a parcel's details when it comes in, review everything in the parcels table, and generate a PDF when you need a record to share or file. It is deliberately a standalone log: registering a parcel does not create a stock movement. Receiving a parcel and booking goods into stock are two different events, and keeping them separate stops an unopened box from inflating your inventory.

The temperature log covers the cold chain. You manage the cells you need to monitor, then register a morning and an evening reading for each, and generate a PDF compliance report for your records. A few rules keep the log honest: there is one record per cell per day (a later reading overwrites the earlier one for that slot), and an evening reading requires the morning one first, so you can't back-fill an empty day.

Honest about scope

The temperature log records what you enter; it does not police it. There is no enforced acceptable range and no automatic out-of-range alert — the safe range is an operational expectation your team applies. Livion's job is to make the record complete and exportable, not to sound the alarm.

Why it matters

When an auditor, an environmental-health officer or an insurer asks for evidence, "we usually check" is not an answer — a PDF is. A parcel log that stays separate from stock keeps your inventory clean, and a twice-daily temperature record with a morning-before-evening rule is exactly the kind of consistent paper trail compliance regimes expect. Both are quiet features that matter most on the one day you need them.

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