How do I Keep Track of my Inventory if I Sell by weight?
Call Type: Pre-sale Support
Call Reported On: 01/02/19
Products supported: Variable Price Barcode Parser
Use Case:
Clover Sales Agent: My customer wants a label-printing scale.
CSI Works Support Agent: We do have a barcode-printing scale.
Merchant: We want a scale that produces a barcode that integrates with a POS system and helps keep track of our inventory. We already use an inventory system for the wholesale side of our business. We need the inventory to tell me how many pounds of meat we’ve sold by the end of the day, every day.
Solution Proposition:
CSI Works Support Agent: You’ll switch your POS to Clover?
We developed an app that sits on top of Clover in their app market. Our app allows the use of any label-printing scale with Clover that produces a barcode. We also sell CAS label-printing scales and Tor-rey label-printing scales, as well as a CAS scale that connects directly to a clover device.
Merchant: We already have a CAS barcode-printing scale.
CSI Works Support Agent: You can use this scale with Clover, without a physical connection. The scale will print labels and our Clover app will process the inventory during the transaction with the customer. Both devices can be in any two locations in the store.
The printed price-embedded barcode will have two pieces of information: the item identification code and the total price. Our clover app, Variable Price Barcode Parser, will understand this information and help do the transaction and inventory update easily.
CSI Works Support Agent: Clover itself has pretty basic inventory tracking so without additional apps, you can specify a certain amount of poundage of a product in the inventory and then with every transaction, Clover itself will deplete the inventory automatically with every purchase (except refunds).
Merchant: Our current POS, Shoppify, isn’t working because it doesn’t seem to integrate with our scales.
CSI Works Support Agent: No, Shoppify doesn’t integrate with scales. That’s the number two reason I see people switch to Clover. The only thing you would have to manually do in Clover is manually enter when you receive sellable material from your supplier, you have to do some addition and enter the new total poundage into your inventory.
Merchant: How about online orders? We take orders through Shopify.
CSI Works Support Agent: There’s no easy way, but the most common solution on Clover is to accept payment online and when they come to the store, give the person the merchandise and add a custom tender type; call it “Shopify Order” or “Uber Eats Order”, etc. Instead of taking the money from the customer again, change the tender type to count the order in the reports/inventory but allow the person to pay online and just get the merchandise.