Stock numbers you can defend in any meeting.
One live availability figure per item, per warehouse, per bin — updated by every receipt, pick, adjustment and transfer the moment it happens. No overnight sync, no reconciliation spreadsheet.
Every site writes to the same stock ledger. Head office and the warehouse floor look at the same number, always.
Damage, shrinkage, found stock — every adjustment has a typed reason, an owner and an optional approval step before it moves a number.
Count an aisle at a time from the mobile app. Variances are flagged against expected quantities the moment a count is submitted.
Transfer orders dispatch from one site and are received at another — and the stock stays visible as in-transit the whole way.
Set minimums per item per warehouse. The dashboard shows what's below reorder and what's critical before customers find out for you.
Every movement is an auditable event: who, when, from where, against which document. Audits stop being a scramble.
How a movement becomes a number everyone trusts.
What multi-warehouse inventory management actually requires.
Most inventory tools were designed for one stockroom and stretched. These are the capabilities that separate software that manages multiple warehouses from software that merely lists them.
One stock ledger, not one file per site
Multi-warehouse inventory management software keeps a single availability figure per item, per warehouse, per bin — and updates it the moment stock moves. In Invistock, every receipt, pick, adjustment, count and transfer writes to one stock ledger, so head office and the warehouse floor read the same number at the same second.
The alternative is familiar: a spreadsheet per site, emailed around on Fridays, reconciled by whoever notices the mismatch first. Once a business runs two buildings, per-site files stop being an inventory system and become an argument-generation system.
Transfers that exist while they travel
Stock between sites is the first thing single-warehouse tools lose. A transfer in Invistock is a document: it dispatches from one warehouse, stays visible as in-transit stock the whole way, and is received at the destination. Nothing falls off the books between buildings.
That in-transit visibility is what lets you answer “where are those 120 units?” with a document reference instead of a phone call.
Rules per warehouse, not per company
Reorder points, permissions and counts are defined per warehouse, because sites aren't interchangeable. A fast mover can carry a minimum of 200 in one warehouse and 40 in another; a role can adjust stock at one site and only read the other. The dashboard rolls it up — what's below reorder, what's critical, and where.
Counting a live operation
Cycle counts run an aisle at a time from the mobile app, against expected quantities, with variances flagged the moment a count is submitted. No shutdown weekend, no rented scanners — and every correction is a typed, owned, auditable adjustment rather than a silent overwrite.
Spreadsheets, single-site tools and Invistock.
The honest comparison isn't against doing nothing — it's against the stack most growing operations actually run: a starter inventory app plus a spreadsheet per site.
| Starter app + spreadsheets | Invistock | |
|---|---|---|
| Availability across sites | One number per file, current as of the last edit | One live figure per item, per warehouse, per bin |
| Stock between buildings | Disappears until it's counted again | In-transit on a transfer document, end to end |
| Adjustments | Overwritten cells — no owner, no reason | Typed reason, owner, optional approval, audit trail |
| Reorder decisions | Memory and last month's export | Per-warehouse reorder points on a live dashboard |
| Counting | Annual shutdown with clipboards | Cycle counts by aisle, from a phone |
| When the books need numbers | Export, massage, re-key | The same movement posts its journal entry, if you run the ledger |
Common questions
Yes. Every receipt, pick, adjustment, count and transfer writes to the stock ledger in the same transaction. There is no overnight sync job — the number you see is the number that exists.
See your stock, live, in a week.
Bring your item list. We'll import it on the call and show you availability, counts and transfers running on your own SKUs.