A par is the amount you want on hand for a product. Set it right and your Order Sheet keeps you stocked without tying up cash in dead inventory. Dynamic Pars reads your real usage from your counts and suggests a par for every product, so you are not guessing. It needs at least two counts to read usage, and the longer your count history, the sharper the number.

1. Open Dynamic Pars and check the settings

Open Inventory → Dynamic Pars. The settings card up top holds three dials: Count Window, how many weeks of counts to average; Buffer, the safety cushion on top; and Delivery Cycle, the fallback reorder gap. Leave the defaults until you have a reason to change them.

2. Understand how the suggestion is built

Bar Cop averages how fast each product actually moved over your recent counts, covers one delivery cycle of that usage, then adds your buffer. The math is average weekly usage times the delivery cycle, plus the buffer. The delivery cycle comes from each product's vendor Delivery Days, so a vendor who delivers twice a week gives a tighter par than a weekly one. The Default Delivery Cycle in the settings is only used when a vendor has no delivery days on file.

A cycle marked default on a row means that product's vendor has no Delivery Days set yet. Add them on the vendor for a sharper number.

3. Read each row

Only products whose par is off from your real usage show up, so the list is a clean to-do. Each row shows the current par, average weekly usage, the suggested par with the reorder cycle it used, whether to Increase or Reduce, the cash impact, and how many weeks of counts stand behind the number. A Reduce frees money off the shelf. An Increase costs a little more to stock but keeps you from running out.

4. Update the ones you agree with

Weigh each suggestion on its own. A par set too low can run you out two weeks later, so this is a judgment call, not a blanket accept. When you agree, click Update Par and Bar Cop sets that product's par. It drops off the list once its par matches usage.

5. Keep a par on purpose

Carrying extra of something by design? Click Keep and Bar Cop drops that suggestion so it stops nagging. It only comes back if your usage on that product really shifts. You can always change a par by hand on the Add Products screen.