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coreSTORE - Inventory: Counting Inventory

Conducting an inventory count and updating incorrect quantities in your store is essential for several reasons:

Accuracy: Ensures your inventory records reflect the actual stock on hand, reducing discrepancies and errors.
Financial Control: Accurate inventory data helps in maintaining proper financial records, aiding in budgeting and financial planning.
Customer Satisfaction: Helps prevent stockouts and overstock situations, ensuring customers can find the products they need when they visit your store.
Loss Prevention: Identifies and reduces instances of theft, damage, or misplacement of items, thereby minimizing losses.

Reordering Efficiency: Provides reliable data for reordering stock, ensuring you maintain optimal inventory levels and avoid unnecessary purchases.

Compliance: Helps in meeting regulatory requirements and standards, especially if you are in a regulated industry.

Operational Efficiency: Streamlines store operations by ensuring that your inventory system is reliable, which aids in better decision-making and operational planning.


Overall, regular inventory counts and updates are crucial for maintaining an efficient, profitable, and customer-friendly retail operation.








Click on Inventory > Items
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Click on ... in the Top Right Hand Corner
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Click on Count inventory
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Choose to Start a New Inventory Count, or Continue a Previous One
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Beginning the Inventory Count

Now that you've started an inventory count, or resumed from a previous session, you can explore all the options and capabilities of the inventory count screen. At the top of the screen, you'll find several useful features for managing your data, printing custom barcode labels, and identifying any items that have not yet been counted.

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Begin Scanning

While this screen does allow you to search, the most efficient way to conduct an inventory count is by using a barcode scanner.

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Scan in Your Item/Items, and Manually Confirm the Count.



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Finishing the Count

When you're done or ready to take a break from your inventory count, please select one of the options below based on your desired action for this specific inventory count.



Close/Finish count and update inventory: This will update any inventory quantities that were adjusted during the counting process.

Close/Finish count and do NOT update inventory: This will close out the count without updating any inventory quantities in the system.

Continue count later: This will save the count for later and return you to the previous screen.

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Updated on: 06/26/2024

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