How to manage inventory with Shopify Retail POS and QB Desktop 2024 (along with a Service program)?

Please excuse my total ignorance, but I’m trying to figure some things out for the company that I work for and none of us are super computer savvy and I don’t know accounting stuff very well - but:

Our company has a small retail store and showroom and we are now using Shopify Retail POS there. We also have a big Service Department and we’ve never had a good service program to streamline things and have access to helpful tool and features, etc. We are running Shopify POS into QB Desktop 2024 and I’m trying to figure out how to best manage the inventory.

We are looking in intergrate a service program such as Bluefolder or House Call Pro or something similar and the tracking of inventory makes my head spin a bit. To me personally it seems like we could use QB Desktop as the “Parent” software and input and pull inventory out of there. I was told that QB Desktop 2024 doesn’t do inventory, but I’m reading otherwise online.

Shouldn’t we be able to accept PO’s in QB Desktop and then integrate Shopify POS and the Service Program both into QB and when either program makes a sale it would automatically pull any inventory back out of QB once reconciled or whatever?

Or does anyone else have any other suggestions as to how we make this work? Again, this is NOT my forte at all, but I’m doing my best to try to get us out the stone age and it’s been very difficult with millions of possibilities, but none so far that seem to address this issue.. at least not that I’ve been able to figure out on my own.

Any detail, advice, resources, links, etc would be greatly appreciated! Total layman here… Thanks all!!

Hi @cca_110 ,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community. I’d be happy to provide some assistance with this request, to ensure it gets resolved.

While we don’t currently offer the ability to use Bluefolder or House Call Pro, you can look to the Shopify App Store for apps that help to manage inventory. Depending on the subscription you’ve selected, Stocky is an available app that’s included in the Shopify POS Pro subscription that works to manage your inventory by tracking your inventory levels, forecasting the inventory that you need, and suggesting which products you should order. To learn more about this, you can check out this Page.

If you’re not currently on the Shopify POS Pro subscription, you can look to using other available apps as we offer various!

Please let me know if you have any other questions.