Scan the bin, scan the part, key the count. It is on the portal before the operator has turned around — no spreadsheets to merge at the end of the day, and no wondering whether the figure in your hand is the figure in the system.
It runs on the Zebra Android scanners we sell, it is hosted in Sydney, and it is sold per stocktake rather than per year, because most businesses count once or twice and should not pay for the other eleven months.
It has a site of its own, and that is where the detail lives — how it works, what the reports look like, the pricing, and a live demo you can read without signing up for anything.
It is the commonest way this conversation starts, and it is half an answer. A stock take scanner is two things, not one, and the half people forget is the half that decides whether the count is any good.
Point a plain barcode scanner at a shelf and you get exactly what it is built to give you: characters typed into whatever is open. No bin, no count, no idea which of the four people counting that aisle scanned it, and no way to tell at five o'clock whether the whole warehouse has been covered or only the easy end of it.
What makes stock taking work is the second half — somewhere for each scan to land the moment it happens, with the bin, the part, the quantity and the person attached. That is what this software is. Scan the bin, scan the part, key the count. It is on the portal before the operator has turned around.
A stock take is one weekend a year. A scanner bought for it spends the other fifty-one in a drawer, going flat, and by the next count somebody has lost the charger and the password to the wifi has changed.
Hire them instead — they arrive configured for your site, with the software already on them, and they go back afterwards. Counts cluster around the end of June, so the week you want is the week everybody wants; three to four weeks of notice is the difference between having them and not.
If you count often enough that hiring stops making sense, then buy — and the Android mobile computers that run this are the same ones that will do your picking and receiving the rest of the year, which is usually the real argument for owning them.
Large fleets get replaced in one go, and when that happens a lot of perfectly good hardware comes onto the market at once — MC9200s and MC3300s that have three or four years left in them. We buy those, check them over and clean them up.
It is worth asking about if the budget will not stretch to new. What you get is honest about what it is: used, tested, and priced accordingly. What you do not get is a warranty that pretends otherwise, and we would rather say which of the two you are buying before you spend the money.
Fair question, and the answer is thirty-five years old.
Selling somebody a scanner is easy. Watching what happens to the count between the shelf and the spreadsheet is the part we have had a front-row seat to since 1991 — counts written on paper and typed up wrong, counts held on a device until the device is dropped, two people counting the same bay and nobody finding out until the variance report.
So from 2008 to 2024 we ran our own hosted inventory software — ScanTrack Systems — with a fleet of more than fifty Windows Mobile scanners out on hire to go with it. That product did more than this one does. It also ran on hardware that Zebra ended, on an operating system Microsoft ended, and we were eight years late moving to Android — which cost us customers and is written up properly rather than skipped over.
Two businesses still run it today, and we still host it for them. That, and what it did and did not become, is on its own page rather than tidied away.
Stocktakes Online is the counting half of that, rebuilt for Android. The name is not new: it was the stocktaking product inside ScanTrack Systems from the start, with its own logo, and it was going out on invoices under that name in 2010. The code is new and the job is the one it always did. It is narrower than the system it sits in, and that is deliberate.
Worth being blunt, because "inventory software" covers about ten different jobs and this one does exactly one of them.
Scan a bin, scan a part, key a quantity. Nothing is stored on the device, so a scanner that is dropped, flattened or walked off with costs you a scanner and not a morning's counting.
Unlimited operators, sites cost nothing, and the count is live on the portal while the count is still happening — which is what makes a recount possible on the same day rather than the next one.
Not yet. The system it came out of did all three, and this one will get there, but it has not yet and we are not going to imply otherwise to win a job it cannot do.
If receiving and picking is what you actually need today, say so on the phone. That is an ERP conversation and we have had a lot of them.
Which is the whole reason it is worth us writing software at all.
People write it both ways — a stocktake scanner or a stock take scanner — and either way it is the same question: which machine, and do you buy it or hire it? Both answers are below, and one of them is that you already own the right one.
The Zebra Android range on this site is the hardware it was built for — and because we sell both, nobody gets to blame the other one. A scanner that will not scan and an app that will not read it are the same phone call here.
If your stock take comes round twice a year, buying scanners means they sit flat in a cupboard for eleven months. Six are available to hire, set up for your site before they arrive.
A count is only as good as what the operator points the scanner at. Bin and location labels are the other half of a stocktake and almost nobody thinks about them until the first morning — we make those too.
That is the argument, and it is the only one we make here. Plenty of stocktake software is written by people who have never fitted a scanner, and plenty of scanner resellers have no software at all. Doing both means the answer to "whose fault is this?" is always the same, and it is us.
Deliberately not repeated here. One place to keep right rather than two that drift apart — the same reason our repair rates and hire rates each live in one place.
What is over there: how a count actually runs, what the reports look like before you commit to anything, the pricing in full, which Zebra devices are compatible, a page that checks a scanner you already own, and a live demo — a real stocktake you can read without signing up or inventing a password.
Tell us what you are counting and roughly how much of it. Whether that ends in our software, somebody else's, or a recommendation to keep doing what you are doing, the first conversation costs nothing and usually saves an argument later.
