Shops with no POS can keep their own stock counts in Velobook, per van, moving themselves when a job finishes or a delivery is booked in, with barcode scanning to build a quote or receive parts.
Velobook only ever read on-hand from a connected till, so a mobile operator running a van saw unknown against every part. Now a shop can keep its counts here, typed in or imported from a spreadsheet matched on SKU, with a starter template to fill in. Low stock, available and out all work exactly as they do for a POS-connected shop, and a POS sync can never archive or overwrite a count you entered by hand.
Van A, Van B, the workshop shelf, named however you like. Counts and imports apply to the location you've selected, the Inventory lookup can filter to one, and the total across all of them is still what a job's parts check reads.
Finishing a job takes the parts on its quote off the counts, once per booking, matched by SKU and floored at zero. Booking in a goods receipt adds back the units that arrived in good condition. Neither ever touches stock mirrored from a POS, which keeps its own numbers.
Barcode scanning across the parts workflow: drop a priced line onto a quote, jump to a part's stock row, or tick cartons off against a purchase order. Use a handheld gun, the device camera, or type the code. An unrecognised code isn't an error, it offers to bind itself to a part, so the shop teaches Velobook its own catalogue instead of needing a pre-loaded product database.
Cost is what you pay, list price is what the till retails it at, and both now show. A back-office SKU like a store-credit adjustment shows its real negative value instead of a misleading $0, while quotes still only ever read the customer-safe price.
One bad catalogue row used to sink a whole page of a sync, silently, so a shop could mirror nothing for weeks. And a big catalogue's lookup was slow enough to time out on a shop with 21,000 parts. Both fixed: the lookup now answers in milliseconds, and a sync that keeps failing raises an alert instead of sitting there quietly.
A per-shop spelling setting for Australian, British or American English across the booking pages, emails and texts, so a US shop's customers read tire and center. Only the wording we write changes, never a name you typed.
The getting-started checklist asked for a shop address and then sent you to a field that didn't satisfy it, so shops could sit stuck at five of six steps forever. There's now one address field, and it counts.
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