New Project: Scannable - Stock Control On The Web

Gabriel Crowe

Introducing my latest tool for helping people sell more things faster.

Scannable Stock Control. I'm posting these screens here so that anybody watching can give feedback and suggest things this software might want to do. Outlined here are the main features:

Create a sales channel and import your stock.
Create another sales channel and import your stock there too.
Associate stock (same physical item) between sales channels to sync stock changes.
Export stock back out to each sales channel with the right stock.

The reason for all this is so that you can import (for example) amazon inventories then import your actinic inventory, you will have the same item in your system twice. Set the barcode on your amazon item, set the stock warning level and set the physical location in your warehouse and THEN associate it with your actinic item. When you press save, they become associated. Every time you make changes to one, the other changes too. Next time you export them out to each individual system, it will share the features of its associated product. You can associate unlimited products together.
Set the items physical location for reports.
Set the items supplier, for reports
Mobile scanners are your phones / PDA / tablets, including all android devices, the ipad and the iphone. You already own the hardware, almost no cost associated.
Stock tracking with graphs over time. Get a better picture of whats going on.
Use Goods returns notices to input stock in in batches. Beep them in with a barcode.
Use Sales invoices to process goods out in a batch. Beep them out with a barcode.
All stock movement is logged, browse the logs, search them... see who did what and with what device.
Very quick stock number check.

What is planned / in the pipe already?

Amazon marketplace sync with API
Actinic link and sync (requires Actiniet free version)
Generic exports and imports for xml, json and csv for ALL the data. No data islands here.
Full API for third party addons.
'Front Desk' shop counter stock checker and quick stock book out for over the counter sales.

So whats it all about?

With Scannable, even though it is possible to use multiple inventories for multiple channels, its not an essential. In fact, you only need 1 sales channel, your main one. Scannable has an individual stock item in the database for each individual combination. 5 sizes = 5 items in the database. The design is deliberately simple. It wont suit everyone, but it will suit a LOT of business.

Scannable makes it easy to use mobile devices and off the shelf ones at that. It's mobile client has been tested on android and iOS platforms, including the iPad. Both these device ranges support scanning of barcodes with the camera. Other devices like blackberries and such work fine... but dont support scanning. You'll need to search.

This 'distributed' adjustment of stock means a better overall view of stock, with stock being updated every time any time somebody takes one out, or does a recount. You can set entire teams on counting a warehouse in very little time.

So, thats Scannable in a nutshell. I'd like to open discussion on things you see are wrong, or things you would like to see. Please try to keep the features logical and doable. I'm going for a private beta sooner rather than later. :)

Here are some screenshots of the current build.

Gabriel Crowe

Ah, I forgot to mention, Scannable will be downloadable and self hostable and also a SaaS with a monthly payment.

In the SaaS you will be able to download your data, ALL of it. In as many formats as we can possibly support.

acompton

Gee, mister, I wish I could create web pages that look like this. Mine look like sh*t.

Strangely, I've just started working on a PC application that uses scanned bar codes to help with stock-taking (and other tedious tasks). having spent four-and-a-half days scanning all the product bar codes into Interspire (for Google), I thought I'd try and get some other benefit out of it.

Gabriel Crowe

I have been thinking about the self-hosted Scannable in relation to online stores.

I'd be able to integrate with pretty much any shop. I'll be using webhooks and a generic file you drop into your install. I'd rather use an API, but there are so many and they all dont behave in a similar way. Any system where I set the stock and it updates in various other systems is going to be complicated to set up.

The interface to scannable is 'as simple as i can possibly make it'. A design philosophy that I have only recently been introduced to. Hopefully it equals more usability and less fiddling around looking for things.

Gabriel Crowe

Perhaps I could give you the API details later so you can write a desktop version of scannable? Does your desktop app use the actual scanners or a webcam, or... both?

MoleEnd

Looks good Gabe, integrated stock control is a huge problems for shops these days.

acompton

Does your desktop app use the actual scanners or a webcam, or... both?

Currently, its still being developed and I'm planning to use the USB bar code scanner I have, which just inserts keystokes as if typed on the keyboard. I want to catch these 'on-the-fly' so as to avoid using an input field and an 'accept' button. Ideally it should operate without needing the keyboard - just need keeping an eye on the screen.

Gabriel Crowe

Bought the domain yesterday: http://www.scannableapp.com/

I really need a marketing guru and another tech guy, lol.

Gabriel Crowe

MoleEnd said:
Looks good Gabe, integrated stock control is a huge problems for shops these days.

http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/One_Stop_Automation.html

Does your 1stop have some API that I can connect to/integrate with to pull sales?

Gabriel Crowe

Spent some time doing the frontpage:

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