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Powerful inventory insights.

Instant, real-time inventory insights that are available wherever and whenever you need them.

Live stock Example data

WN-2019-CAB · Cabernet Sauvignon 750 ml

1,284units on hand
  • Toronto DC812
  • Mississauga 3PL356
  • Van stock116
Units sold · 13-month trend+81%
Sep ’25Sep ’26
Reorder suggested · 480 units Scan-verified 14 min ago
  • Real-time inventory

    Get a real-time view of your inventory — from raw materials to finished products.

  • Multiple locations

    Keep track of your inventory across all locations, and initiate transfers between warehouses.

  • Transparency

    Detailed inventory tracking and movement of items between inventories.

Smart inventory management for expanding businesses.

Optimise inventory end to end. Track stock across locations in real time and replenish based on demand to reduce stock-outs, cut excess inventory and control carrying costs.

  • Reorder points

    Avoid costly interruptions. Never run out of stock and materials.

  • Product availability

    Track sales volume, existing inventory and supplier lead times so you know exactly when to reorder.

  • Traceability

    Track expiry dates, serial numbers and batches to ensure recall readiness.

  • Back order management

    Keep track of all back orders and fulfil them.

  • Holds and reservations

    Hold inventory for customers or manufacturing, ensuring that you never oversell your inventory.

  • Make-to-stock

    Bundle and track inventory items to create newly stocked collections.

  • Precise stock location

    Easily locate inventory across multiple warehouses and mobile locations, with customisable bin-level organisation.

  • Barcoding

    Scan barcodes to consume inventory for manufacturing or order fulfilment.

  • eCommerce & Omnichannel

    Sync inventory values with your eCommerce store or other sales channels.

  • Forecast demand

    Buy what you need, when you need it, with live inventory and sales data.

  • Move stock with ease

    Easily move items between warehouses, vehicles or branches.

  • API integration

    Connect third-party systems via our API.

Four things it has to get right.

Know what you have, what to order, and what it really cost. Clean item data, real-time stock control, demand-driven purchasing and accurate costing: the four pillars every inventory decision depends on.

Item data

A single item record for every way you buy, store and sell. Cases, single units and bundles all share one stock count, so what’s on hand is always consistent, whichever way you look at it.

Onerecord per item
  • Stock and non-stock itemsPhysical goods, freight, service lines and fees live in the same catalogue, so an order can carry every line it needs.
  • Units of measureBuy by the pallet, hold by the case, sell by the single. The conversions live on the item, not in someone’s head.
  • Kits, bundles and make-to-stockAssemble sellable bundles from components and track them as their own stocked item, without double-counting a unit.
  • Lots, serials and expiryAttributes that follow the item from receipt to customer, so a recall is a query rather than an afternoon.
  • Barcodes and cross-referencesYour SKU, the supplier’s part number and the barcode on the carton all point at one record.
  • Product detail for every channelQuantity, price, descriptions, attributes and images sync out to Shopify, Squarespace and other storefronts from the same record.

What you get out of it

The point of all of it.

Features are the mechanism. These are the results that operations managers tell us they notice first.

  1. 01

    Stop selling stock you do not have and stop holding stock nobody ordered.

  2. 02

    Close the gap between physical count and system count to within a rounding error.

  3. 03

    Sales quotes from the same number the warehouse picks from.

  4. 04

    Cut carrying cost on slow movers you could not see before.

Inventory Management questions.

Does ChannelSnap handle multiple warehouses and locations?

Yes. There is no practical limit on locations, and each can have its own bins, costing behaviour, replenishment rules and permissions. Transfers between locations is quick and simple to accomplish.

Can I track lot numbers and expiry dates?

Lot, batch, serial and expiry tracking are built in and can be enforced per item. Full forward and backward traceability is available from any lot record, which is what auditors and recall procedures ask for.

How does ChannelSnap calculate inventory cost?

ChannelSnap supports weighted average, FIFO and standard costing per item, with landed cost apportionment for freight, duty and brokerage. Cost changes flow through to margin reporting and to your accounting system automatically.

What is inventory management software?

Inventory management software keeps one authoritative count of everything you own — how much, where it sits, what it cost and what is already promised to a customer. Inside an ERP like ChannelSnap it is the layer every other function reads from: sales quotes against it, purchasing replenishes it, the warehouse picks from it and the accounts value it. The alternative is a spreadsheet per department and a meeting to decide which one is right.

How does ChannelSnap prevent stockouts and overstock?

Two mechanisms working in opposite directions. Reorder points and min/max levels, set per item and per location, raise a purchase suggestion before a line runs out, with the supplier’s real lead time already applied. Going the other way, demand history and carrying cost surface what has stopped moving, so the stock quietly tying up cash is visible now rather than at year end.

How does ChannelSnap improve inventory accuracy?

Barcode scanning on receiving, picking and counting removes the keying errors behind most variances, and every movement writes a transaction trail you can trace in either direction. Cycle counts run by zone or bin while the warehouse keeps working, and post a gain and loss report rather than requiring a shutdown.

How can I tell which inventory items are performing well?

Sales history, margin and movement are held against each item, so lines can be ranked by revenue, by profit or by how fast they turn. Forecasting reports use thirteen months of trend to show which products are climbing and which are fading, and the same view flags the slow movers worth clearing.

Inventory Management

Put your worst
edge case in front of us.

Every operation has the transaction that breaks its current system. Bring it to the demo — it is the fastest way to know whether ChannelSnap fits.

  • 60 minutes, run by an implementation consultant
  • Your data and your workflows, not a demo company
  • Straight answer on fit, cost and timeline