Inventory

What you have, where it is kept, and a visitor walked to the aisle.

What Inventory is

A list of things and where each one lives. A shopper types milk and is walked to aisle 12. A warehouse finds a part by its bin. A town tracks its own equipment and never shows a visitor any of it.

It is the only screen in the Front Desk that can be entirely private. The three switches at the top decide how much, if any, of it a visitor ever sees.

Add an item, or a spreadsheet

Add an item opens a new one: name, category, place, price and how many.

Choose a spreadsheet brings in a whole list at once from a CSV exported from Square, Shopify, Google Sheets or Excel. You check what it read before anything is added, so a badly matched column is caught on screen rather than discovered later in your list.

Place the categories

This is the idea that makes Inventory usable at any size. You do not place a thousand items; you place a handful of categories.

Tell it dairy is in aisle 12 and every dairy item is placed. An item only needs a place of its own when it is somewhere different from its category, and the list says by category on the ones that are not.

The three switches

• Show this list in the tour. Off, the list is yours alone. On, a visitor can search it, read an item with its pictures, and be walked to the aisle.
• Show prices. Visitors see the price.
• Show how many you have. Visitors see the count. Many places want prices on and this off.
• Let visitors read the whole list. Off means search still finds an item, but nobody can browse everything you hold. A warehouse usually wants this off.

Those last two together are how a shop shows prices without publishing its stock levels to a competitor.

Inside an item

Photos, up to four, and the first is the cover. The picture is saved as you choose it, so there is no separate upload step.

What it is, in words is a full text box: bold, italic, underline, bullets, numbers, colour and links, the same editor an Info Tag uses. It reads under the price in the tour.

Buy it online points at your own store's page for that item. The tour shows the button and opens your link. StrollPoint never handles the money. What the button says is yours: Buy now, Book this site, Reserve, Order ahead, Check availability.

Find an item, a row, and Remove it

Find an item narrows the list as you type, which is the only workable way through a list of a thousand.

A row opens that item, and so does Edit. Remove it, on the item's own page, takes it out of the list.

A row in the list

A row in the list opens that item, and so does Edit on it. The row also shows whether the item has a place of its own or is placed by category.