Guides
How to run an inventory that actually stays current
Guides written for the business that needs them, not to fill up a website. Some explain how the work is done; others, what changes in your kind of business.
How the work is done
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An inventory app built for a small business
Most inventory software is designed for a warehouse with an IT team. If you run the business yourself, with two hands and a phone, the problem is a different one.
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Inventory control that survives a busy month
Everyone starts an inventory. The hard part is that it still adds up in March. The difference isn't the software — it's how many steps sit between selling something and writing it down.
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A native inventory app for iPhone and iPad
Not a website wrapped in an app, and not a stretched iPhone screen. Each size gets its own composition, and the operating system does half the work.
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Landed cost: what your product really costs you
What you paid the supplier isn't what the product cost. Between freight, customs, currency and channel fees, the margin you thought you had may not exist.
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Barcode scanning on an iPhone — and printing your own
The phone's camera is already the scanner. What changes the day is not the scan itself: it's that the code finds the item, and that whatever arrives unlabelled gets a label of yours.
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One stock across your WooCommerce store and your counter
Selling online what's no longer on the shelf is the price of keeping two inventories. The website has one number, the shop floor has another, and reconciling them by hand lasts until the first busy Saturday.
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Inventory on your iPhone, connected to your Shopify store
Shopify runs the storefront. What it doesn't run is everything behind it: what each unit really costs landed, what sells across the counter, and what's actually left in the back room.
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The same inventory changes quite a bit depending on what you sell. These get specific.
By business type
Inventory for a shop with a counter
Selling fast and knowing what's left happen at the same time in a shop. If inventory lives apart from the sale, it stops matching within two weeks.
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Clothing and footwear inventory, by size and colour
In fashion you don't sell a product — you sell one size in one colour. Inventory that can't tell those apart is no use for reordering or for knowing what's left over.
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Inventory for a liquor store
High rotation, expensive stock, and the same reference sold by the bottle and by the case. Here inventory isn't filing — it's cash control.
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Inventory for a pharmacy
Here stock has a date on it. A correct number in the system can be goods you're no longer allowed to sell, and you only see that if the inventory tracks batches.
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Inventory for a cell phone and tech store
In this trade the question you have to be able to answer isn't how many are left. It's "did this handset come from here, when, and who bought it?" — and that needs the IMEI stored on the sale.
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Inventory for a hardware store or a joinery workshop
A hardware store's problem isn't counting — it's telling forty near-identical references apart. Inventury counts whole units and is built for catalogues that size.
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Inventury is on the App Store, with a free plan that doesn't expire.