Track finished products, materials, hardware, and shipping supplies

Start with a record that already describes the thing: a finished product or variant, a filament or other material, a piece of hardware, or a physical packaging supply. Enable inventory for that record, choose a stock unit, record the opening balance, and assign a location when location detail is useful.

After setup, use stock movements instead of replacing a number without context. Receipts, additions, removals, transfers, set-count corrections, and audit corrections leave a history that explains how the current quantity was reached.

Finished-product counts are optional. A made-to-order shop may track only ready-to-ship variants, while a small batch seller may count every finished color and size. Materials can include filament and hardware such as screws, magnets, or inserts.

Packaging inventory means the physical boxes, mailers, bags, padding, inserts, and labels on the shelf. That count is separate from assigning suitable packaging to a product or using a packaging-fit suggestion. A product can recommend a box without pretending that box is currently in stock.

Locations can represent the way a small shop is actually arranged: a bin, shelf, room, drawer, packing station, finished-goods area, or another named place. Transfers move a quantity between locations while preserving the reason for the change.

An audit can cover every enabled item or a selected group, and you can narrow it by location. Blind count hides the expected number while you count what is physically present. When you finish, PlyOps records each accepted correction instead of replacing the old number without an explanation.

PlyOps can generate QR and Code 128 labels for inventory records. At the workbench, a seller can use a keyboard-style scanner, a supported device camera, or type a code, then choose receive, add, remove, transfer, set count, cycle count, or look up.

Scanning is a faster way to select the item; it does not decide the stock change. The seller chooses the quantity, location, and reason. Entry by hand remains available when a label is missing or a scanner is inconvenient.

A seller keeps the Black PLA wall-hook variant in a finished-goods bin and enables an each count for the ready-to-ship pieces. The same workspace tracks black filament by weight, screw packs as hardware, and 6 × 4 × 2 inch shipping boxes as physical packaging supplies.

A seller sets reorder points for boxes and screws, receives a delivery into the packing-station location, and scans a box label when supplies move to the workbench. During a monthly audit, the physical black-hook count is one lower than the record. The accepted correction records that difference without changing any Etsy, Shopify, or eBay quantity.

The inventory workspace keeps the counts you choose to track and a history of each change. It does not run purchasing, financial valuation, warehouse automation, or print-job dispatch.

Inventory does not manage live marketplace quantities or deduct stock when a marketplace sale happens. Use movements, scans, and audits for the counts you keep in PlyOps, and use each marketplace for its live availability settings.