Real-time inventory synchronization across online and physical stores

Purpose

1.1 Automate real-time inventory synchronization, ensuring that stock updates between online and physical hookah stores are instant and accurate.
1.2 Prevent overselling and stockouts by automatedly updating item counts across POS terminals, eCommerce platforms, marketplaces, and warehousing systems.
1.3 Automates visibility of inventory changes for staff and management, enabling omni-channel stock control and seamless customer experiences.
1.4 Automator connects disparate retail software, centralizing inventory logs and supporting automated reporting and replenishment triggers.

Trigger Conditions

2.1 Automated inventory update initiated by sale completion, product return, or stock intake.
2.2 Synchronization process can be triggered manually or scheduled for batch automation at defined intervals or automatedly in real-time through webhooks.
2.3 API-based inventory change detection automates workflows without human intervention.
2.4 Triggers also include threshold dips (low stock warnings) and new product listings for automated propagation across endpoints.

Platform Variants

3.1 Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Level Update API — Configure webhook triggers to automate synchronization to physical POS on item sale or adjustment.
3.2 WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API Inventory Endpoint — Automate POST/PUT on stock change, push updates to designated endpoints or connected inventory solutions.
3.3 Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Management API — Listen for automated inventory_updated and inventory_physical_counted webhook events, sync with eCommerce.
3.4 Lightspeed Retail
• Feature/Setting: Product Management API — Automates real-time inventory sync using product.update events, mapping SKU changes.
3.5 Vend (by Lightspeed)
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Count Endpoint — Configure automated push on POST to central hookah database.
3.6 Magento
• Feature/Setting: Stock Items API — Automate PATCH or asynchronous bulk update triggers for physical and online synchronicity.
3.7 BigCommerce
• Feature/Setting: Catalog Inventory API — Set up inventory webhook to automate outward-firing updates to other software on change.
3.8 Amazon Marketplace
• Feature/Setting: MWS Inventory API — Automates inventory feed submission on in-store sales to update listings automatically.
3.9 Walmart Marketplace
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Update API — Automator links stock events from POS to marketplace backend.
3.10 eBay
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — Automated PATCH on offer quantity updates, synchronized with shop sales.
3.11 PrestaShop
• Feature/Setting: Webservice Inventory API — Enable event-based automation for multi-channel inventory accuracy.
3.12 ERPNext
• Feature/Setting: Stock Entry DocType Events — Automate push/pull to eCommerce endpoints on stock ledger changes.
3.13 QuickBooks Commerce
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Adjustment API — Set up event-driven automation for stock discrepancies, updates propagate to sales channels.
3.14 Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: REST Inventory Integration — Automates outbound update on every transaction event.
3.15 Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: API Inventory Adjustments — Automator posts updates automatically to all connected online outlets.
3.16 SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Transactions API — Automated triggers on goods issue/receipt for external sync.
3.17 Cin7
• Feature/Setting: Product/Inventory Endpoints — Event-driven stock adjustment syncs to e-shops and POS.
3.18 Loyverse
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Webhook — Configures automated broadcasts of on-hand changes.
3.19 Clover POS
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Item API — Syncs adjustments automatedly to central online databases.
3.20 Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Management API — Configure real-time sync automation on inventory transaction events.
3.21 Openbravo
• Feature/Setting: Stock Events API — Automates data push to upstream and downstream stock endpoints.
3.22 Odoo
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Module API — Automated scheduler propagates every transaction to eCommerce and warehouse.

Benefits

4.1 Inventory automation eliminates manual reconciliation and reduces human errors.
4.2 Automatedly prevents overselling and customer dissatisfaction.
4.3 Optimizes stock levels via automated threshold alerts and auto-restock workflows.
4.4 Centralizes real-time data for actionable insights and automated reporting.
4.5 Automates multi-channel sales readiness, scalable for peak demand.
4.6 Reduces costs associated with inventory mismanagement by automating all critical syncs.