Inventory Mate

The app predicts what customers will want next by reading your actual sales history rather than a flat reorder point. Forecasts feed directly into the restock suggestions, so seasonal peaks and steady sellers each get a number that reflects real demand. The stated goal is fewer stockouts on popular items and less cash parked in overstock, and the forecast is what drives every downstream suggestion in the app.

Inventory Mate watches stock levels and warns you right before you need to reorder, not when a product has already run dry. Suggested quantities are lead-time aware, so an order placed for a slow supplier goes out early enough to land before the shelf empties. You review the suggestions, pick what you need and move straight into a purchase order in one step.

Purchase orders live on a single record that carries the supplier, destination, carrier, costs, payment terms and receipts. You can draft, send and receive POs without leaving the app, handle partial receipts as shipments arrive out of the blue, and keep payment status honest as the order moves. Finished orders can be pushed into QuickBooks so the books stay in sync with what you actually bought.

Shopify does not keep a running average when you receive stock, so the cost on your product pages drifts from reality. Inventory Mate writes a true weighted average cost back to Shopify, automatically at PO receipt or whenever you run the SKU COGS report. Every plan includes the manual SKU COGS push with a confirmation step before Shopify updates, and higher tiers add automatic sync at receipt.

Real cost includes more than the unit price, and the landed cost view allocates shipping and duties across a shipment the way a supply chain team would. That gives you a cost figure you can defend to a bookkeeper or an accountant, and it mirrors how the retired Shopify app handled landed cost. Getting this right matters because it changes your margin on every product in the order, not just one.

Before you commit to a large purchase, the cash flow planner shows how the projected balance moves as you plan. You can see a shortfall forming months ahead rather than discovering it when the bill comes due. The built-in argument is blunt: a single missed restock on a product selling ten units a day can cost more than a year of the subscription, and the planner exists to keep that from happening.

The supplier portal gives each vendor a place to see their orders, update shipment status and confirm what is on the way. That removes the back-and-forth spreadsheet and email juggling that usually sits between a purchase order and a delivery. Combined with lead times and tracking, it keeps the order status current without you chasing updates by hand.

The app is built around Shopify, pulling products, variants, locations and inventory into one place and keeping stock aligned with your storefront without manual exports. QuickBooks is the optional accounting connection: push purchase orders across when you are ready, so you avoid double entry and keep the books clean. Higher tiers also add multi-store support, more teammate seats and multi-location visibility.