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Category: Inventory & Product Sourcing
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Are you struggling to manage your inventory, keep track of orders, and handle the various steps between the time an order is received and when it goes out the door?

With the Bizelo eRetail inventory management app, you can manage all of your orders and inventory in one centralized dashboard. Automatically sync inventory across multiple channels, whether you have 3 warehouses, 4 stores and 5 ecommerce platforms.

Configuring your stores is easy and there’s no limit to the number of stores you can connect. Track inventory and order status including paid, picked, packed, and shipped with no limits to the number of orders you can receive. Bizelo automatically pulls all inventory items and recent orders into a central inventory dashboard. We integrate with a number of ecommerce solutions including Shopify, 3dCart, Magento, Vend, Etsy, eBay, Cartkeeper, as well as fulfillment providers such as ShipStation.

With Bizelo you can:

• Manage all of your orders and inventory in one centralized place
• Automatically sync inventory items across multiple web stores
• Track order status including paid, picked, packed and shipped
• Allocate inventory between locations or between stores easily.
• Track costs and keep track of per-location details
• Sell products that need to be assembled into kits
• Print shipping labels automatically through our integration with ShipStation
• Track shipments automatically or enter tracking numbers manually
• Set and receive low quantity alert emails

While Bizelo eRetail might have a simple user interface, it is actually a very powerful inventory management system. Bizelo doesn’t keep track of just one notion of inventory stock quantity, but actually keeps track of two: quantity on my shelves, and available inventory quantity. The reason why we keep track of these two notions will hopefully be clear to you below and help you realize just how much power you get in the Bizelo inventory management system.

Scenario: Selling and Shipping Products to Customers

Let’s say you have 50 black T-shirts you have in stock, and you want to sell them to customers. These 50 black t-shirts are posted to your online e-commerce storefront and are made available for purchase. You now have a quantity of 50 available black t-shirts in your store.

Now, let’s imagine someone actually buys one of those black t-shirts. First, you want to make sure that you accurately reflect how many T-shirts are available to the next customer who wants to buy them on the site. Since one was already purchased, there are only 49 black t-shirts left. This means that your quantity in your store for this SKU is now 49.

But wait a second — if you were to look at your warehouse at the moment, you will still see 50 black t-shirts on the shelf. At this point, you have a quantity of 50 black t-shirts on your shelves, while you only have 49 black t-shirts available for purchase. The reason for this is obvious — one of those 50 t-shirts on your shelf is designated to be picked, packed, and shipped to your customer. Make sense?

When you sell an item on a store, you decrease its “Quantity In My Stores” amount by the amount purchased by the customer. When you Pick an item from your storage location(s), you decrease the “Quantity On My Shelves” by the amount you fulfill to meet your customer orders.

The quanitity you have in your storage loactions is your “Quantity On My Shelves”.
The quantity available to your customers in your stores is your “Quantity In My Stores”.

In summary, “Quantity On My Shelves” is the amount of an item you have in one or more storage location(s), and “Quantity In My Stores” is the amoutn of item you have available for sale at one or more store(s). As customers place orders, your “Quantity In My Stores” will be decreased for each item ordered. When those orders are picked, your “Quantity On My Shelves” will be decreased.

Getting More Advanced: When “Quantity On My Shelves” and “Quantity In My Stores” aren’t in sync

In many cases, you would only offer product for sale that you actually have. In this way, your “Quantity On My Shelves” and “Quantity In My Stores” always get in sync when you pick and fulfill orders that have been purchased at your stores. However, this is not always the case. You might have a scenario where you offer more of a product available than you actually have on-hand. Why would you do this? Perhaps you are offering products that are on back-order from your suppliers. Or perhaps you are a drop-shipper and maintain very little inventory on hand.

The Bizelo eRetail IPS system will warn you when you make more product available than you have on your shelves, and it will not allow you to pick from your orders if you don’t actually have that product on hand. It won’t prevent the orders from being placed on your stores, however.

On the flip side, you might have more product on hand than you make available in your stores. Why might you do this? Perhaps you are saving some product in reserve for free distribution, or for distribution to retail outlets. Or perhaps you only want to sell some of your product, but still keep track of all your inventory. Bizelo lets you do this. You don’t need to only have one notion of quantity. In fact, having these two different notions is particularly powerful.

Updating your “Quantity On My Shelves” and “Quantity In My Stores”

You can update your “Quantity On My Shelves” for an item per storage location and your “Quantity In My Stores” per store. When you receive new product from your suppliers, you may change your “Quantity On My Shelves” manually to reflect an accurate new count per location. Once you have quantity in your stores, you can then decide how much of that will be made available to each of your stores. Likewise, you can adjust how much product you want to make available to stores, optionally adding more quantity than you have on hand… as long as you realize that you won’t be able to fulfill orders that you don’t have on hand inventory for.

Bizelo
108 Woodlawn Rd
Baltimore, Maryland 21210
USA

410-429-0092