Selling online and in store: keeping one accurate stock
When you sell both in your shop and on social networks or a website, the same item can be sold twice. The solution: a single stock, updated with every sale, whatever the channel.
The problem with two stocks
One stock for the shop and another for online sales always ends up diverging: a product advertised as available is already sold, a customer waits, a sale is cancelled. A disappointed customer does not come back.
One reference stock
- Choose one place where stock is kept up to date: it is the one that counts.
- Record every sale in that place, whatever the channel: shop, WhatsApp, social networks, website.
- Update your listings from that stock, not the other way round.
Avoiding double sales
- Keep a small safety reserve for products in very high demand.
- Remove or mark listings “sold out” as soon as stock reaches zero.
- Record the online order as soon as it is confirmed, not at delivery.
- Count your best-selling products regularly.
Keeping track of the channel
Note where each sale comes from (shop, WhatsApp, social network). You will know which channel earns the most and which deserves more effort.
Keeping stock with Kaislo
Kaislo keeps a single stock, updated with every recorded sale, with low-stock alerts and the movement history. Record your online sales in Kaislo like shop sales: the stock stays accurate. Kaislo does not connect automatically to a website or social network: online sales are entered by hand.
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Selling online and in store: keeping one accurate stock
How do you avoid selling a product that is already out of stock?
Update the stock with every sale, remove the listing as soon as it reaches zero, and keep a small reserve for products in high demand.
Do you need software to sell online?
Not necessarily, but a stock tool avoids mistakes as soon as you sell through several channels.