Location App

Location-based inventory management in Shopify is reshaping the landscape of e-commerce. It is a custom built app by team Xperteria. One stop solution for your inventory is now here.

By offering improved order fulfillment, accurate stock visibility, and strategic inventory placement, businesses can elevate their operational efficiency and provide customers with a seamless shopping experience.

As the demand for faster deliveries and enhanced customer satisfaction continues to grow, the integration of location-based inventory management proves to be a strategic move for forward-thinking e-commerce businesses on the Shopify platform.

Understanding Location-Based Inventory Management

Location-based inventory management involves organizing and tracking products based on their physical locations within a warehouse or across multiple warehouses. In the context of Shopify, this approach enables businesses to efficiently manage their stock levels, reduce order fulfillment times, and enhance overall customer satisfaction.

Benefits for E-commerce Businesses

1.Optimized Order Fulfillment:

With location-based inventory tracking, businesses can fulfill orders faster by reducing the time it takes to locate and pick items from their designated storage locations. This efficiency leads to quicker order processing and improved customer satisfaction.

2. Accurate Stock Visibility:

 Location-based tracking provides real-time insights into the availability of products at specific warehouse locations. This accuracy prevents overselling, backorders, and disappointments for customers expecting prompt deliveries.

3. Strategic Inventory Placement:

Businesses can strategically position their inventory based on factors like demand trends, shipping costs, and product popularity. This ensures that popular items are stored closer to the shipping destinations, reducing shipping times and costs.

4. Effective Order Routing:

Location-based inventory management enables intelligent order routing by automatically selecting the warehouse with the available stock closest to the customer’s delivery address. This minimizes shipping distances, ultimately reducing shipping times.

Why should you have this app?

This Shopify custom app allows Shopify store owners to be able to use Shopify’s multi-location feature efficiently. Here are some of the benefits:

• You will be able to setup Shopify multi-location within your Shopify admin.
• For each location/warehouse, you can set which countries are allowed to buy from it.
  For example: if you have a warehouse in the USA, but you also want Canadian customers to be able to order from your USA warehouse, you will be able to set that.
• On the product page, customers will be able to select their location through a dropdown.
• If stock is available in their location, they will be able to Add to cart, otherwise it will show “Out of stock”.
• Admin will be able to set location based inventory in their Shopify back-office.

So you can:

• Allocate your inventory for each location.
• Allow customers to purchase from their nearest warehouse only (can be changed from admin).
• Set different stock levels for each location.
• Auto detect customer location or manually allow customers to pick a location.

For example – you have two warehouses:

USA – for customers from USA

Canada – for customers from Canada only.

So customers from Canada will be able to purchase stock available in Canada warehouses only.

This way you can avoid overselling, and manage stock from one place.