barcodes and inventory management

Hi, We are cinductiong our 3rd stocktake and the entire process is painful. We use Magnetic Ones store manager so we can input the changed easily enough. It is the indentification of the product names to the items that is taking the time.

If we used a scanner and the barcodes this would be so much quicker. I read about the barcodes for invoices modules, but was not sure if they would account for stock as well. happy to be enlightened here.

I also wan't sure if this would conflict with the Mangetic One store manager, I have written to them to ask.

So what do other people do for this issue? We have over 3000 individual items, doing this is really really horrible.

Looking forward to your ideas/solutions/issues
jazzah

I'll be really, really interested here aswell.

Our shop will have online inventory that is also on sale instore.
I'm concerned we can sell the same product twice.

I have made a mysql table containing all the products (inclusing barcodes) and I aim to integrate the two (the actual shop and the virtual). But no idea until the shop is up and running...

Is there seriously no-one who ha sa solution to this? someone must be doing it? How? Come on the challenge is out there!!!!!
Jazzah

The Numinix Barcodes module assigns a unique barcode to each product, and even stock by attributes product (if that module is installed).

The old name of the module (Barcodes on Packing Slips) may be misleading.

Thank you, I will look into your software

Numinex, How does that module locate the barcode identification and then input quantities that are scanned? It looked to me that is only allows for the abrcode data to be within the database, but please correct me if I am wrong? Thanks Jazzah

numinix:

and even stock by attributes product (if that module is installed).

Heya, thanks again, Installed and it works nicely so far but I can't find the barcode in the stock via attributes? Have I made a mistake?

Ok I have found some stock inventory software that uses a barcode scanner and creates a csv file. Now I need to know how to import that into Zencart, so that it changed the products stock levels accordingly. We don't have easy populate, as we have used Store Manager, but i think we can still instal easy populate, programmer was a bit nervous about it! Is this the best way ti upload CSV file? Any help appreciated. Thankyou

This is exactly what we are looking for too. Great to know others are out there with the same ideas and needs.

Wow that is a good looking store! Hey let me know if you get the barcode thing figured out...I often take my stock to fairs and sell it there, would be great to have something i could scan the product and it would be taken off the shelf in zencart

we are installing barcodes onto zencart now, then our accounting package (The artful ledger) will allow cvs uplod of stock levels and adjust zencart accordingly. This program also downloads all of our sales data (We are not affiliated with this product, jsut very happy customers) Great option for Aussies who have no other accounting options yet for zencart.

what's the name for the software you are installing? link?

www.artfulledger.com.au

This is an Australian accounting program that can download sales data from zencart and will also be able to scan stock using barcodes via a csv file and then update zencart. It will make incoming orders easy using barcodes to input item details, an dalso make stocktake a breeze.

At this point we have used the accouting part and it has been very successful, downloading sales data has been such a timesaver. We are now inputting all barcode data onto our databse so we can try the csv stocktake upload process.

As said before, we are not affiliated with the Artful Ledger, we have just been very happy, as it has answered some fairly major issues for us.

Jazzah
www.blissfulkidsparties.com.au