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inFlow Cloud provides secure access to your inventory from anywhere, meaning you can access your data from multiple devices and locations. This opens up the possibility for different branches of your company to work together across cities, or even across countries. But this also means that it’s harder to oversee all of your data, or […]

If you’re looking for a quick, straightforward way to convert markup into margin, this is it. We’ve written about the markup formula and the margin formula before, but our previous post was specifically for calculating these numbers when you  already had the price and cost of that particular product. But a few readers contacted us with […]

If retrieving products from the shelf is slowing your business down, then using a picklist template could be an invaluable tool. Picking is the process of removing sold products from your inventory — usually to prepare them for shipping. A lot of first-time businesses begin with a simple approach to picking: they’ll open a sales […]

Twice a year, our whole inFlow team spends a day together volunteering our time for a local non-profit organization. This autumn, we helped Eva’s set up for their fundraising dinner, Taste Matters. Eva’s is a shelter for homeless youth in Toronto, where it’s estimated that 2000 teens are homeless each night. Eva’s also offers several […]

Your safety stock and reorder point help you determine how low your stock can get before you need to order more. If you don’t reorder when you reach your reorder point, you’re likely to run out of stock. Safety stock contributes to your reorder point by accounting for things like: delays in shipping, sudden increases […]