Built for businesses that sell by the pallet.
B2B ordering, customer pricing tiers, multi-warehouse fulfillment and PO receiving in one distribution inventory system — with a portal your buyers use themselves.
Sound familiar?
Reorders arrive as photos of old invoices, and someone re-types every line.
Which customer gets which price lives in someone's head.
Sales promises stock the warehouse already allocated to someone else.
How Invistock runs a distribution operation
Buyers see their prices and live availability, reorder from history, and their orders land allocated.
Wholesale A, key accounts, list price — each customer buys at their tier automatically.
Wholesale, samples, replacements — each with its own numbering and approval path.
Confirmed orders reserve stock; what's promised is subtracted from what's sellable.
Scan against expected quantities; partial and over-receipts handled, GRNI posted if you run the ledger.
Net 30 and friends on the customer record, flowing onto invoices.
From reorder to delivered
What distributors actually need from inventory software.
Distribution isn't retail with bigger boxes. Inventory software for wholesale distributors has to model accounts, terms, tiers and allocation — the machinery of selling by the pallet.
Price lists as data, not folklore
Every distributor runs customer-specific pricing; the question is where it lives. In Invistock, pricing tiers and contract overrides are data on the customer record, resolved automatically on every order — keyed by your team, placed by a rep, or self-served through the portal. Which customer gets which price stops living in someone's head.
Allocation that protects promises
Overselling in distribution isn't a website problem — it's sales promising stock the warehouse already committed to someone else. Confirmed orders in Invistock reserve stock, so what's sellable is what's on hand minus what's promised. Partial shipments stay linked to their order, and fulfillment status tracks shipped and cancelled quantities against what was ordered.
Receiving at the dock, not the desk
Purchase orders are received by scanning against expected quantities — partials and over-receipts handled at the dock, not corrected at a desk after the truck leaves. If you run the accounting module, received-not-invoiced stock posts to GRNI on its own.
Terms, credit and the books
Payment terms live on the customer record and flow onto invoices. Credit-held accounts can browse the portal but not commit orders. And with the optional built-in ledger, the invoice, its COGS and the receivable post as goods move — no monthly re-keying into a separate accounting app.
The distributor's spreadsheet stack, versus Invistock.
| Starter app + price-list PDFs + inbox | Invistock | |
|---|---|---|
| Reorders | Re-typed from emailed photos of invoices | Self-serve portal orders, allocated on arrival |
| Pricing per account | A PDF per tier, versioned by memory | Tiers and contract overrides resolved automatically |
| Overselling | Discovered at pick time | Allocation subtracts promises from sellable stock |
| Receiving | Keyed at a desk after the truck leaves | Scanned at the dock against the PO |
| Terms and credit | In the owner's head | On the customer record, enforced at order time |
| The books | Re-keyed monthly into an accounting app | Optional built-in ledger posts as goods move |
Wholesale & distribution questions
Yes. Pricing tiers are assigned per customer, and the portal shows that customer's prices and live availability only — never your cost or other customers' terms.
Put your price list to work.
Bring your catalog and two customer tiers. We'll show a portal order landing allocated in your warehouse on the call.