The audit trail is an append-only log of changes across your account: what record changed, who changed it, and when. Every mutation — creating a transaction, editing an inventory item, adjusting a quantity — leaves an entry, so there is always an answer to "who did this, and when?"
For a solo seller the audit trail is mostly a safety net for troubleshooting: it lets you retrace your own steps when a number looks wrong. For businesses with employees or partners it becomes an accountability tool, and for anyone facing an audit or a food-safety review it is contemporaneous evidence that your records were maintained as you went, not reconstructed after the fact.
Because the trail is chronological and attributed, it pairs naturally with traceability features: when you need to show the full history of a batch or a transaction, the audit trail is where that story is preserved.
Related terms
Traceability
The ability to trace a finished product back to its source ingredients, production run, and batch numbers. Critical for food safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
Batch/Lot Number
A unique identifier assigned to a production run or group of items produced together. Enables traceability from raw ingredients to finished products for quality control and compliance.