Inventory management using POS and online sales

[JMFG]

I sell online and use Shopify POS when we go to an event (like a popup store).  I use the same inventory for fulfilling online orders and in person sales at pop-up events.  The popup events are in different states, so we typically set up a new location in POS to manage the different sales tax collection requirements each state has.  Is there a way to track inventory across the different platforms and locations without having to transfer inventory back and forth between Shopify online and each location?  Or are there any good add-on apps that can handle this seemlessly?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

[goldengate]

Hi JMFG,

Did you figure a way out of this? I am setting up our first POS location and having trouble with the same.

Thanks!

[JMFG]

Here is what I am currently doing.  As we go to a new event, I set up that event as a separate location without any inventory (mainly so we comply with Sales tax collection).  Once that event is done, I deactivate that location.  As you deactivate a location, Shopify makes you transfer the inventory to a new location prior to deactivating.  Since I don't set up inventory initially, Shopify transfers negative inventory levels back to my main online store.  Therefore it actually subtracts everything that I sold from the inventory levels in my main store.  Kind of a crude workaround (as with many things in Shopify) but it works for us.  Hope this helps you too.

[gauravj21sep]

Hey @JMFG try Prediko. 

In our case at Second Aid we go to a lot of events that pop ups in India. and we had a similar situation - Inventory that is sold online and at events should be tracked in a single place.