Use this playbook to reconcile a partial or damaged CIS gear return without overstating availability or creating an automatic charge.
Before you start
- Act as
- The trip's guide, then an authorized SettleWise Inventory reviewer
- Trip
- A CIS with daily client gear in Checked out status
- Physical reality
- An issued quantity that can be split across usable, repairable, unusable, missing, lost, or under-review outcomes
Run the scenario
- 1GuideTrailhead Mobile · CIS detail · Gear return
Submit the checked-out gear for return.
Expected evidence
The custody moves to return requested, stays unavailable, and creates no charge.
- 2InventorySettleWise · Inventory · Gear requests
Open the pending return and distribute each reviewed product quantity across its actual outcomes.
Expected evidence
The review shows remaining quantity and cannot submit while the allocation is short or over the issued quantity.
- 3InventorySettleWise · Inventory · Return reconciliation
Confirm the reconciliation and review the resulting custody and stock movements.
Expected evidence
Only returned-usable units restore availability; repairable units move to service and all other issue outcomes remain unavailable.
- 4OperationsTrailhead or SettleWise · Responsibility review
Verify that physical reconciliation did not create a guide debit, then review responsibility separately if needed.
Expected evidence
Inventory disposition is complete while responsibility can remain not reviewed, no charge, pending, guide, client, or operations responsibility.
Scenario completed
Every issued unit has a physical outcome, whether or not financial responsibility is already resolved.
- Custody status
- Checked out→Return requested
- Physical disposition
- Pending review→Explicit per unit
- Available stock
- No return restored→Returned usable only
- Financial responsibility
- Separate or pending→Authorized outcome
If it does not match
- If reconciliation cannot submit, make every outcome quantity add up exactly to the quantity under review.
- If damaged, missing, lost, or under-review units become available, stop and correct the physical outcomes before assigning the gear again.
- If retrying changes stock twice, do not make a manual compensating adjustment; preserve the custody reference and investigate idempotency.
- If a guide charge appears automatically, leave responsibility under review and correct the separate authorization path.