Inventory Management Automation**Purpose**
1.2 Instantly notify relevant teams upon margin drops, significant price changes, or supplier updates
1.3 Support price control compliance, informed purchasing, and maintain target profitability for acrylic supplies
1.4 Centralize data aggregation from inventory, POS, supplier, and ecommerce platforms to trigger workflow
**Trigger Conditions**
2.2 Supplier posts price update or promotion
2.3 Margin calculation falls below a defined threshold
2.4 Significant deviation detected from historic price or margin trends
2.5 Scheduled scan (e.g., hourly/daily) of product cost vs. sale price
2.6 Manual flag from team/manager for urgent re-check
**Platform Variants**
3.1 QuickBooks Commerce
• API: Webhooks for product update, API to fetch updated pricing, margin calculation endpoint
• Feature/Setting: Add webhook for product/price update events
3.2 Shopify
• API: Admin API - Products/Variants Update, Webhooks for products/update
• Feature/Setting: Configure Webhook to POST on price shift
3.3 Xero
• API: Inventory Item Updates endpoint
• Feature/Setting: Schedule polling to Xero Inventory API
3.4 Square
• API: Catalog API, Inventory API
• Feature/Setting: Use catalog item update webhook
3.5 WooCommerce
• API: Products REST API, Webhook on product update
• Feature/Setting: POST Webhook on pricing change
3.6 Lightspeed Retail
• API: Item and Price update webhooks
• Feature/Setting: Webhook triggers for margin recalculation
3.7 Microsoft Dynamics 365
• API: Product Price List Endpoint + Power Automate connectors
• Feature/Setting: Create automated flow for margin alert
3.8 SAP Business One
• API: Service Layer for Inventory Items
• Feature/Setting: Listen for price change events
3.9 Oracle NetSuite
• API: SuiteScript Scheduled Script, Restlet
• Feature/Setting: Script triggers for price/margin variance
3.10 Zoho Inventory
• API: Product Update Notifications
• Feature/Setting: Enable webhook notification
3.11 Google Sheets
• API: Apps Script trigger on cell edit
• Feature/Setting: Detect value or margin formula change
3.12 Airtable
• API: Webhooks + Formula fields
• Feature/Setting: Automate margin warnings with filtered views
3.13 Slack
• API: Incoming Webhooks, Slack Bot API
• Feature/Setting: Channel notification for alert workflow
3.14 Microsoft Teams
• API: Incoming Webhooks, Adaptive Cards
• Feature/Setting: Send card alert on margin drop
3.15 PagerDuty
• API: Events API v2
• Feature/Setting: Trigger incident for margin criticality
3.16 Gmail
• API: Gmail Send API
• Feature/Setting: Compose and send instant alert emails
3.17 Trello
• API: Card creation via REST API
• Feature/Setting: Create alert cards for team review
3.18 Salesforce
• API: Process Builder/Flow, Product Price Update object
• Feature/Setting: Setup automated margin alert process
3.19 SendGrid
• API: Mail Send endpoint
• Feature/Setting: Dispatch warning emails for required action
3.20 Twilio
• API: Messaging API
• Feature/Setting: Send SMS alerts to managers
3.21 HubSpot
• API: Product object, Workflow triggers
• Feature/Setting: CRM alert via property change
3.22 Zapier
• API: Multi-platform triggers, spreadsheet and POS integrations
• Feature/Setting: Route price change data to notification endpoints
**Benefits**
4.2 Reduces manual errors from delayed communication
4.3 Protects profit margins by real-time oversight
4.4 Creates centralized audit trail for pricing/margin decisions
4.5 Enhances role-based, actionable alerts for store and ops teams
4.6 Scales across multiple acrylic stores and online/offline sales Points
4.7 Integrates existing business infrastructure for low-friction deployment