Daily automatic inventory updates

**Purpose**

1.1. Automate real-time, daily, and scheduled inventory updates for all products in the sweets and dessert buffet section, syncing stock levels, ordering, and low-stock alerts.
1.2. Automates deduction from inventory with every order, minimizing manual data entry and errors.
1.3. Automatedly updates central dashboards, supplier portals, and POS systems for integrated, up-to-date insights.
1.4. Automates multi-channel data gathering from sales, purchases, returns, and wastage, aggregating for fast replenishment calculation.
1.5. Automates inventory change communication to purchasing managers, staff, and suppliers.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1. Scheduled time-based trigger (e.g. every day at 3 AM/set hour).
2.2. Inventory change event, such as new sale, return, or delivery logged.
2.3. API webhook on update from POS or ERP system.
2.4. Threshold trigger when stock level falls below reorder point.
2.5. Manual trigger for exceptional reconciliation.

**Platform Variants**

3.1. Shopify
• API: InventoryLevel API — automate updateInventoryLevels endpoint for productLocationId.
3.2. Square
• Feature: Catalog/Inventory API — automatedly POST /v2/inventory/batch-change.
3.3. Toast POS
• Function: Inventory Management API — automate PUT /inventory endpoint for item quantity.
3.4. Lightspeed
• Feature: Inventory API — automate POST /inventoryadjustments.json for products.
3.5. Clover
• Function: Inventory API — automate PATCH /v3/merchants/{mid}/items/{itemId}.
3.6. NCR Aloha
• API: InventoryUpdate — automate daily push to Aloha Inventory cloud service.
3.7. Vend (now Lightspeed Retail)
• API: Inventory API — automate inventory_update POST for product IDs.
3.8. QuickBooks Commerce
• API: Products endpoint — automate PUT /products/:id to update stock quantities.
3.9. Zoho Inventory
• Automation: Update Inventory Adjustment API — automate POST /inventoryadjustments.
3.10. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature: Inventory Journals — automate batch job to post inventory adjustments.
3.11. SAP Business One
• B1 Service Layer: Inventory API — automate PATCH /InventoryGenEntries.
3.12. Oracle NetSuite
• SuiteScript: InventoryDetail API — automate inventory.adjust() script daily.
3.13. Odoo
• Function: Inventory Adjustment Model — automate create() via XML-RPC or REST.
3.14. WooCommerce
• REST API: PUT /wp-json/wc/v3/products/id — automate stock_quantity property.
3.15. Orderhive
• Inventory API: automate updateInventory endpoint for bulk SKU updates.
3.16. Cin7
• API: Inventory API — automate /v1/stock/adjust endpoint.
3.17. Sapaad
• Function: Open API StockLevels — automate PATCH /stocklevels.
3.18. Fishbowl Inventory
• REST API: Automate endpoint update for item quantities.
3.19. Revel Systems
• Inventory API: automate POST /inventory/adjust endpoint for dessert items.
3.20. Google Sheets
• AppScript: automate scheduled script to update stock levels from external data.
3.21. Airtable
• Automation: automate daily script with PATCH on inventory records via API.
3.22. FreshBooks
• Inventory API: automate PUT /api/inventory endpoint for stock count.

**Benefits**

4.1. Automates inventory tracking and reporting, reducing human resource needs.
4.2. Automates low-stock and out-of-stock alerts, maximising availability and minimising waste.
4.3. Automatedly integrates with accounting, purchase, and POS workflows.
4.4. Automates forecasting for reordering, reducing stockouts.
4.5. Improves accuracy, speed, and transparency through daily automated updates.