Real-time inventory reporting

Purpose

1. The purpose of automating real-time inventory reporting is to provide immediate, accurate, and continuous updates on stock levels, enabling dive shops to optimize inventory, prevent shortages/overstock, streamline reordering, and power actionable insights via automated data flows and predictive alerting.

2. Automated inventory reporting helps track high-value diving gear, supporting just-in-time stock management, improving cash flow, minimizing losses, and automating multi-location stock visibility with no manual intervention.

3. Automation ensures stakeholders receive actionable, real-time notifications through configurable channels, enabling fast response to low stock or anomalies and automating compliance reporting for insurance or regulatory needs.

Trigger Conditions

1. Automated data sync on new sale/purchase order in POS or eCommerce platform.

2. Automatedly triggered by manual stock adjustments or receipt of new inventory in the warehouse management system.

3. Automated reconciliation schedules (e.g., hourly, daily, or threshold-driven — “stock below X units”).

4. Backend API/webhook triggers on barcode scan, RFID read, or automated handheld inventory events.

Platform Variants

1. Shopify

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Levels API; automate “inventory_levels/adjust.json” for programmatic stock count updates.
  

2. WooCommerce

• Feature/Setting: REST API (/wp-json/wc/v3/products/stock); automate webhook for stock status changed event.
  

3. Square

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API; configure “BatchChangeInventory” endpoint for automated quantity syncing.
  

4. Lightspeed Retail

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API; automate “Item.Inventory” GET and PUT for real-time changes.
  

5. QuickBooks Commerce

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API; automate “inventory/get” and “inventory/adjust”; configure event-driven polling.
  

6. Cin7

• Feature/Setting: Stock API; automate “CreateStockTransaction” for automated inventory movement recording.
  

7. DEAR Systems

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API; automate webhook and “InventoryMovement” endpoints for stock events.
  

8. SAP Business One

• Feature/Setting: DI API “InventoryTransactionsService”; automate posting of stock increases/decreases.
  

9. Microsoft Dynamics 365

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Journals API; automate “InventTrans” for updating counted stock.
  

10. Oracle NetSuite

• Feature/Setting: SuiteTalk SOAP “InventoryAdjustment”; automate stock count sync with RESTlets.
  

11. Vend (by Lightspeed)

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API GET/PUT; automate stock on hand sync.
  

12. Fishbowl Inventory

• Feature/Setting: REST API; automate “Inventory” and “Adjustment” endpoints for stock activity.
  

13. ShipBob

• Feature/Setting: Inventory auto-sync; automate via Inventory Management API “inventory/get”.
  

14. Skubana

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API /products/inventory; automate via real-time webhook.
  

15. SkuVault

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Update endpoint; automate “Inventory.UpdateItemQuantity”.
  

16. TradeGecko

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Adjustments API; automate creation of adjustment notes.
  

17. Odoo

• Feature/Setting: Inventory OdooRPC; automate calls to “stock.quant” model for stock changes.
  

18. Salesforce Commerce Cloud

• Feature/Setting: OCAPI; automate inventory/PUT for store updates.
  

19. Amazon Seller Central

• Feature/Setting: MWS Feeds; automate POST of Inventory Feed (_POST_INVENTORY_AVAILABILITY_DATA_).
  

20. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: Apps Script REST integration; automate sheet update on inventory API webhook event.
  

21. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; automate real-time alerts of low stock thresholds.
  

22. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; automate posting reports to inventory channel.
  

23. PagerDuty

• Feature/Setting: Events API v2; automate incident creation on critical inventory events.
  

24. Power BI

• Feature/Setting: REST API; automate data push for live dashboard reporting.
  

Benefits

1. Automated, continuous inventory updating eliminates manual work and reduces errors.

2. Automated notifications and threshold alerts support proactive stocking.

3. Automates cross-location inventory reconciliation and visibility.

4. Enables automated analytics and demand forecasting for sporting goods and dive gear.

5. Ensures efficiency by automating reporting and compliance documentation.

6. Minimizes out-of-stock or overstock situations with automator-driven precision.

7. Elevates customer satisfaction with reliable, up-to-date stock information.

8. Supports automated integration with accounting, sales, and supply chain systems for end-to-end process automation.