...About Setting Up an Inventory System

Many of our customers are small businesses and organizations. They know that an inventory system will benefit them, but they don't know the first place to start. Even those companies who have inventory systems in place find the "Inventory Basics" helpful in evaluating their own systems. Here's what you'll find in the Inventory Basics section —

Inventory Basics — An overview of the inventory basics guide and an introduction to the example company that we use to illustrate lessons throughout the guide.

How to name your inventory locations — This is a step by step guide to creating names for the spaces that house your inventory.

How to label your inventory locations — All inventory locations should be labeled. This guide will help you avoid common mistakes.

How to describe your inventory items — Our recommendations on how to describe your stuff so that it's easier to find.

How to create good item numbers  — Your inventory items should all have unique code to identify them. Here's how to do it.

Tips for creating unit of measure names — Common sense tips to keep your units of measure (lbs, pcs, cases, etc...) consistent.

How to count your inventory items — Counting your stock can seem overwhelming. We break it down into simple steps here.

Glossary of terms — A guide to the language of our inventory system as well as other inventory terms.

Links —Handy links to web sites related to inventory operations, systems, software, bar coders, label makers, and other products.

...About Clearly Inventory's Online Inventory Management System

Clearly Inventory is a type of inventory cloudware. This is a fancy way of saying that it's a web-based, or online system -the application and all of your data is "on the web" and hosted on our servers. The servers we use are much more powerful, secure, and scalable than anything that a small business can afford. The links below will help you learn more about Clearly Inventory, and many of them are contained in this site's header for quick access. Here's a list of links about Clearly Inventory —

Features — A detailed list of what Clearly Inventory can do.

Benefits — A list of the benefits of tracking inventory as well as using Clearly Inventory to do it.

Screen Shots —A Picture's worth a thousand words, but we've still added some to explain what's going on in these screen captures.

Prices —We have several different options based upon your needs. Compare our prices to other inventory systems and see how much you'll save.

Buzz — Hundreds of people have signed up to use Clearly Inventory. Here you'll find testimonials from a handful of them. Once we get the attention of the paparazzi all press clippings will be located here as well.