I am looking to manage my inventory (as a consigner) supplying to retail stores. I make jewellery and supply it to galleries. The gallery then sells the jewellery on my behalf. Once each item has sold they take a cut and pay me the rest.
I currently use Quickbooks as my inventory management software, but they're retiring the plan soon and I need to find replacement inventory management software.
I was hoping there might be a Shopify plug specifically for consignment inventory management (note: I am a the supplier of the consignment goods, not the retail seller of the goods).
@nickrobot I noticed you were looking for similar software in 2019. Did you find a good match?
Some notes on what I need:
- I don’t need all my stockists' inventory information to sync with my records. I simply need a way to keep a record of what is in stock at all of my consignment stockist locations. My records and their records don’t need to be connected in real time (instead I do a manual annual stocktake to check that my records match theirs).
- I do need to be able to generate a document that shows what has been transferred from my location to their location. This document can't contain the cost price and must contain information such as: source location and destination location, SKU code, product name, retail price, qty, total qty.
- Ability to have multiple price lists (I set a retail price, but each store takes their own consignment cut, e.g. 35% vs 40%) therefore what I receive from each store differs.
Ideally I would use multiple warehouses within Shopify, i.e. assign each stockist a warehouse. When I transfer stock I would transfer it from 'my' warehouse to 'their' warehouse. And then as items sell I'd raise an invoice which would remove the items from their warehouse. But unfortunately Shopify only offers a small number of warehouses (between 3-8 depending on which Shopify plan you're on). I need between 15 - 50 warehouses.
Recommendations appreciated!
