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Inventory Management Features

Endless allows you to track and manage all your inventory across locations and sales channels. The system provides comprehensive functionality for monitoring on-hand, incoming, and in-process inventory levels. Endless synchronizes inventory data between your warehouse management systems, 3PLs, and sales channels, while enabling detailed inventory adjustments and tracking. The system streamlines operations through features like Advanced Shipping Notices for inbound inventory tracking and complete inventory management across all your locations, including self-managed, 3PL-managed, and dropship partners.

Endless allows you to manage all locations where your products could be stored or shipped from, including self-managed warehouses, 3PL facilities, and dropship partners. For self-managed warehouses, Endless provides basic warehouse management capabilities, letting you organize inventory with unlimited site IDs for bins and pallets, categorized by zones. Endless supports sophisticated inventory tracking with quarantine and available sub-locations at each facility, and offers fully customizable location management to accommodate virtually any warehouse setup.

Inventory Management​

Full read-and-write Inventory Management System​

Our inventory management system (IMS) includes on hand, incoming, ordered, and allocated inventory tracking. Many systems are read only but Endless can either be the native "source of truth" for inventory, or will read from an external source, like an external warehouse management system (WMS) or 3rd party logistics provider (3PL). Available now

Make adjustments to self-managed inventory with detailed adjustment codes​

Endless can manage stock directly at an owned location. You can adjust inventory, and can track every change with a specific reason. This allows you to have Endless function as a lightweight warehouse management system. Available now

Downstream inventory sync from WMS/3PL​

Direct connection to a user's WMS/3PL to get real-time updates on inventory. Users would otherwise depend on high latency and high effort method, such as an FTP file drop or spreadsheet exports and uploads. Available now

Upstream inventory sync to sales channels (e.g., Shopify)​

Writes the correct value (unreserved available inventory) that takes into account the demand from other sales channels that would otherwise be invisible to that sales channel. This prevents over- or under-selling. User can pull inventory levels from Shopify (often used during onboarding) or push to Shopify (used thereafter). Available now

Connected to orders and ASNs​

Single view shows current stock, recent shipments, and incoming product, with links to those records. Available now

Flag for low stock and oversold items​

QOL - visibility of inventory issues for user. Available now

Track inventory and multiple locations, and sync to sales channels that support multiple locations​

Allows for intelligent order routing. Available now

Track inventory at multiple sub-locations within a building (WMS)​

Allows user to treat EC as their WMS and store inventory in specific bins, shelves, aisles, etc. Eliminates the need for a separate WMS for some users. Available now

Track quarantine/damaged inventory separately from sellable stock​

User can count, but not ship, quarantined or damaged inventory. Not possible in many systems, and eliminates the need for separate tracking system. Avoid shipping bad items to customers. User can also use this feature to create inventory holds/reserves. Available now

Allocating inventory allows EC to actually process orders, not just create labels​

This is a little abstract, but: a system that does not track inventory, or does not allocate inventory, cannot process orders. A spreadsheet, for example, can track quantities but cannot allocate them to orders, therefore it cannot process orders. ShipStation, if not connected to an IMS, can still create labels, but those orders might not be able to be fulfilled in real life. Available now

Warehouse Management​

All locations where products could be shipped from are in Endless​

This includes self-managed, 3PL-managed, and dropship partners, which provides a complete view of inventory and fulfillment locations. Many other systems are isolated or insular, requiring multiple logins and fragmented data. Importantly, we can link specific buildings to external systems, like a WMS, over API. Available now

Quarantine and Available sub-locations natively at each system location.​

Used for tracking damaged items or inventory holds. Available now

For self-managed inventory, we provide basic WMS (warehouse management system) functionality​

You can assign SKUs to unlimited site IDs (bins, pallets, etc), and categorize them by zone. This allows you to use Endless as an all-in-one solution, even if you do your own fulfillment. Eliminates the need for an additional, fragmented solution. More full featured and scalable than ShipStation's lightweight WMS solution.. We do not currently have a mobile app available for this tool. Available now

Fully customizable location management to accommodate nearly any warehouse setup​

Unlimited sub-locations within a building for granular WMS activity. Available now

Make adjustments to self-managed inventory with detailed adjustment codes​

You can adjust inventory directly, and can track every change with a specific reason. Available now

Tracking inbound inventory​

Track inbound inventory from suppliers by SKU​

User would otherwise need to track and manage this data in an analog system. Sales, marketing, and CX needs to know when items will be restocked for customer communication. Available now

Full Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) functionality​

Includes checklists and uploads to count confirm quantities and update inventories accurately. User can verify quantities themselves; integrates will WMS functionality. Useful for self-managed fulfillment. Available now

Can sync with a WMS/3PL and listen for updates from downstream​

Endless can subscribe to updates from external WMS/3PL and get ASN receiving data over API. Gives user real-time visibility to inventory arrival, including overage and underage, without needing access to the external system - which they may not have. Available now

Can create ASNs in external WMS/3PL via API​

Eliminates double-entry for the user, who may not even have access to the WMS. Ensures accuracy and allows user to control the process. Available now

Attach notes to the ASN to provide context for other team members​

Indicates if inventory needs to be allocated or assigned to a specific customer or order Available now

Can use ASNs as a lightweight return tracker​

Different ASN type codes (Standard, Quick, Return) allow the user flexibility to use the module in other ways for better reporting on unexpected inbounds and returns Available now