Questions, answered plainly

Is this a point-of-sale system?

No, and it is not trying to become one. SKUantify does not take payments, print receipts, open a cash drawer or manage a checkout queue.

It is the record behind the counter rather than the till on it. When something sells, you record the stock going out and the ledger explains the new quantity. If you need a till, keep the one you have.

Does it do accounting?

No. It values stock at weighted average cost and will tell you what your inventory is worth, which is a number your accountant will want. It does not produce ledgers, file returns or replace accounting software.

What do I need for barcodes?

A barcode scanner that works as a keyboard — most do, and they are inexpensive. The scanner types the code into the box and the item comes up. There is no special hardware to buy from us.

A USB scanner usually works as soon as it is plugged in. A Bluetooth scanner has to be paired with the computer, tablet or phone first, in that device's own Bluetooth settings, and set to keyboard mode if it has more than one; after that it types codes the same way. You can also just type the code, which is what most people do when the scanner is on the other side of the room.

The Android app can also read barcodes with the phone's camera.

Can I use it on a phone?

The web application works in a mobile browser. There is also an Android app, currently with pilot customers ahead of its store release, built around the jobs that happen standing up — recording a movement, looking up an item, walking a stock count, moving stock between locations. It can scan with the camera, keep a movement as a draft on the phone when there is no signal and send it later, and notify you about low stock.

There is no iPhone app yet.

Can I have more than one location?

Yes, from the Growth plan up. Each plan sets how many. Stock is tracked per location, a transfer takes stock out of one location and into the other in the same entry so the business total does not change, and staff can be restricted to the locations they actually work at — the application will not show them stock or reports from anywhere else.

Starter is a single location, which suits one stockroom or one shop.

How do I get my existing stock in?

By CSV. Export from whatever you use now — a spreadsheet counts — and import products, variants and opening balances. The import previews what it will do before it does it, so you see the damage before agreeing to it rather than after.

On the Growth plan and above, setup assistance is included in the one-time onboarding fee and we will do the first import with you.

Does it connect to Shopify, Lazada, Shopee or my POS?

Not yet. There are no live integrations today, and we would rather say that than list logos we cannot back up. In the meantime, catalogues come in by CSV import and reports go out as CSV.

From the Business plan up there is a REST API — scoped keys you create and revoke yourself, rate-limited, versioned under /api/v1 — and signed webhooks that tell your own systems when stock moves, a transfer is made, a status changes or a count is posted. That is the foundation connectors to Shopify, Lazada, Shopee or a POS are built on; the connectors themselves are not ready yet.

What happens if I change plan?

Changing plan never deletes anything. If you move down and end up over the new limit — say ten locations on a plan allowing three — you keep all ten, with their stock and history, and can go on recording movements and counts at every one of them. What you cannot do is add more until you are back under the limit.

Features the smaller plan does not include stop being available. Moving down to Starter, for instance, turns off stock transfers between locations: the transfers already made stay in the history, but new ones cannot be recorded until you move back up. Your records are not a lever we pull to get you to upgrade.

Can I correct a mistake?

You correct it by recording the correction, and both entries stay visible. Quantities are never typed over, because a number that can be edited is a number nobody can defend in a dispute.

That is the whole idea: any figure on any screen traces back to the movements that produced it, including the mistakes and the fixes.

What if two people record something at the same time?

For stock movements, transfers and stock counts, the database takes them one at a time: the second waits for the first, then applies to the quantity the first left behind, so neither is lost and no total is worked out from a stale number. If a phone retries a save because the answer never arrived, it is recorded once, not twice. These cases are tested against a real database before a release.

It does not decide who is right. If two people enter different counts for the same line of a stock count, the later save is the one on the sheet — so agree who counts which shelf.

Sales can go on during a stock count. Posting sets each counted item to the quantity that was counted, so a sale recorded after its shelf was counted but before the sheet is posted is undone by the post. Post soon after counting, or count the busiest shelves last.

Where is my data, and can I get it out?

On managed infrastructure in the United States — the privacy policy names every service involved and says exactly what each one sees.

Every report — current inventory, valuation, low and out of stock, and the movement reports — downloads as CSV and has a printable view you can save as a PDF, whenever you like. For anything the reports do not cover, such as a complete copy of your account's records, write to info@skuantify.com and we will send it to you.

Is there a free trial?

Create an account and look around before committing — and talk to us about what you need. We are a small team and would rather have a conversation than run you through a funnel.

Something else?

Write to info@skuantify.com. A person reads it.