# Transaction A Transaction represents an actual instance of an Item Variant. ## Supply When you obtain an item and add it to your inventory a Transaction gets created. This is one unit of the item. Transactions can carry some information: - Price - The price this item was acquired at - Origin - Where this item is from - Location - The [Location](Location.md) of the item - Note - General notes ## Consume If an item gets used or is removed from the inventory, you consume the transaction. This adds some additional information to it: - Price - The price of the item at removal. e.g a selling price, or a negative value can represent cost of removal - Destination - Where this item went, e.g a person who requested this item