Mobile inventory Management

Shopify Apps
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Topic summary

Goal: adjust inventory on mobile by scanning barcodes, ideally without paying for POS Pro (Shopify’s paid Point of Sale plan).

  • Suggested approach: Use the iOS Shopify app’s Inventory Scanner feature; a Shopify Help link was provided as guidance.
  • Progress: The user successfully assigned barcodes to products and increased quantities via scanning.
  • Open issue: The user cannot find how to decrease quantities via scanning. No steps for stock reductions were clarified, and Android options were not addressed.
  • Status: Unresolved. Further instructions are needed on performing quantity decreases with the iOS Inventory Scanner or alternative methods/apps.
Summarized with AI on December 16. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello, i’m starting now with shopify and i would like to know if there’s some way to reduce the item count inside the inventory by scanning the barcode? Maybe with some extension? Or Ios/android application?
The POS Pro is too expensive to buy only for this usage.

Thanks!

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Hi @Paolo7297 ,

You can already do that in the iOS Shopify App. Here is a helpful article how to do that.

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/shopify-app/inventory-scanner#

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Thanks! I was able to increase the quantity and assign the barcode to an item, but how can i decrease the quantity?

thanks!