How to validate a product without investing a ton $ in inventory ??? Found a product in a somewhat saturated niche that solves a problem. The only issue is that it can’t be dropshipped and it has to be custom made. For that reason the MOQ will set me back about $10k. How can I market to my target customers without having any inventory. I was thinking running ads to a Landing Page where customers can preorder, or …

How do you currently manage inventory? Do you use any automation tools? If so would appreciate if you share your experience using them. For example: how did they simplify inventory management? any limitations? main features submitted by /u/d41_fpflabs

Liquidating inventory Hey all, First, sorry if this isn’t the right sub for this post. Looking for a way to liquidate womens apparel stock quick and in bulk. As of today, 707 items of dresses, tops, bottoms etc, sizes S to 5XL. All individually packed, labeled and stored, ready for quick pickup & ship. In US. All items are from well established ecommerce site we ran …

Inventory Planning Needs All, I’m in the process of designing and building an inventory planning tool for ecommerce businesses. As I’m identifying features to include in the tool I wanted to ask if there are any suggestions from this group. Are there any features/capabilities that you don’t have in your current solutions/processes that would make your lives easier? …

Lightspeed inventory to Meta Business Manager Hello! First post here, I don’t have much experience in e commerce and I’m helping my friend with some stuff. I want to upload our inventory from lightspeed c-series over to mega business manager. Lightspeed has documentation about how to do this using a data feed using a URL. However when I use this URL to give the data to Meta, it says it isn’…

Inventory Management Software for eBay Hi, I sell on eBay, sometimes I do A/B testing and want an inventory management software I can connect to my account to keep track of the stock. Normally when theres one listing the quantity displayed on eBay is fine but when theres 2 listings of the same item it can be easy to lose track of how much stock you have, especially when you’re freque…

GM Is Paying Dealers Thousands To Pick Up Inventory Themselves General Motors has a new plan for getting dealers their inventory: Come pick it up yourselves. Thousands of retailers have reportedly been frustrated by logistical bottlenecks and slow-moving new vehicle shipments from factories, so now GM is paying dealers up to $1,050 for each vehicle they pick up from four of its… Read more…

Recommend me an inventory management system I am looking for an inventory management system that holds all of our products and can 2 way sync with both Woocommerce and Magento. SKUVault is looking like the winner so far but I feel it has more features then we will actually use. Our shipping is handled by another company so I would prefer if the measurement on monthly cost is more based on…

Counting inventory Is there any trick to count and double check if the suppliers send me the correct quantity? I feel like its a daunting process to count one by one. How do you do it? submitted by /u/c_cta

How do you do your accounting + inventory management? Getting started in ecommerce is one of the hardest parts, though most people don’t realize how complex running a business can be. Curious to learn how as you’ve scaled you handled the business operational side of things like automating accounting and inventory forecasting for multiple channels with a growing SKU count? I started with spreadsheet…

launching website to test market before buying large inventory order has anyone launched their website and taken orders before placing a big inventory order? i have samples, and promotional material, and the like so i have the things i need to make the website. i just want to test it out just a bit before i go all in but i don’t know if there is precedent for that. submitted by /u/FaithlessnessWeary66

Use Forster’s Commitment Inventory to Prioritize Your Tasks If you have a lot to do every day, it might be hard to figure out how to prioritize it all. You can try to decide what’s urgent and what isn’t, build a detailed schedule, and use tech to stay focused, but sometimes it’s hard to even know where to start. If you haven’t heard of it yet, you should consider getting… Read more…

Drop ship or store inventory at home? I have about $30k to risk on this venture, plan on buying small items that are easy to ship and store on Amazon/eBay/etc.. My gut is telling me just manage the inventory at home and make a daily drop to USPS while getting started. Thoughts? submitted by /u/readysetmoon

b2b – options for inventory management / payment processing hi there, Currently developing a proof of concept b2b e-commerce site. Clients will be other vetted businesses so no automated sign-ups etc. – probably dozens … not hundreds of clients. Store front will be a custom developed solution – (these bits are fairly widely supported by numerous parties): a back-end api + admin ui interface for stock …