What is FBA and Why Should My Business Use It?

FBA is a service offered by Amazon marketplace that takes the entire fulfillment process off your plate. The logistical nightmare of storing, picking, packing, and shipping is all taken off of your hands.  Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) lets you ditch the fulfillment headaches and focus on what you do best – growing your brand and…

Transfer Orders: Simplifying Warehouse Operations in Ecommerce

For those managing ecommerce warehouses, optimizing operations is vital for maintaining customer satisfaction and driving profitability. Finale’s transfer orders stand out as an important tool in this initiative. Let’s explore the role of transfer orders, demonstrating how they can significantly streamline your warehouse processes. From One Warehouse to Another Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty.…

Suppliers and Demand: Introducing Vendor Feeds at Finale Inventory

Looking for a hack to streamline operations between you and your suppliers? Get excited for Vendor Feeds in Finale. What can vendor feeds do for you? How will it improve your business’s inventory management? Let’s explore further… Vendor Feeds 101: The Lowdown Vendor Feeds serve as a data bridge between vendors and sellers, enabling suppliers…

5 Ways Finale’s Labels Can Help Your Business

Running a successful business means having all your ducks in a row, especially when it comes to inventory management. But what if your “ducks” are actually thousands of products waiting to be shipped? Warehouses constantly face challenges related to inventory management, like stocking problems, workflow inefficiencies, and tracking issues due to product mismanagement.  The issues…

Consolidated Transactions: A Game-Changer for Managing Finances

In today’s fast-moving world, accounting practices for ecommerce businesses have evolved in leaps and bounds. Finale Inventory’s new feature, consolidated transactions, is reshaping the world of accounting, changing how inventory management software connects to Quickbooks Online. But why does it matter? How does it help sellers?

Get On Board With Amazon Local Selling and Finale: Control Your Customer’s Purchase Experience

Always looking to improve the customer experience, Amazon offers Local Selling which includes Buy Online, Pick Up in Store (BOPIS). BOPIS allows sellers to make products purchased in Amazon’s online store ready for pickup within just hours at their physical locations. In addition to getting products into the hands of consumers quickly, sellers can save…

Introducing Finale Inventory’s 3PL Client Portal

Finale’s new 3PL Client Portal feature is just what you need to fulfill a variety of products for your eCommerce clients. Add our new Client Portal feature to your existing account and start saving time and improving your level of client service today.

Amazon Selling Partner API (SP-API) Migration and Inventory Management

Does your business sell products on Amazon? You’re likely using Amazon MWS, an integrated web service application programming interface (API) to exchange data on reports, payments, listings and other key areas. MWS enables you to perform numerous functions, such as managing inventory, reports and orders, creating inbound shipments, and tracking and managing outbound shipment requests. …

QuickBooks Solution Provider Program Helps Finale Users with Inventory Accuracy

Finale Inventory is proud to announce that we’ve joined Intuit’s QuickBooks Solution Provider Program. Small business owners can reduce errors and save time on manual transactions all while increasing efficiency with our tightly integrated inventory and accounting solution. By taking advantage of our bundle offer that combines QuickBooks Online and Finale at a discounted rate,…

Kitting and Bundling Best Practices for the Health and Beauty Industry

Determining how to best sell your health and beauty products is a great first step toward increasing your sales and improving your overall business practices. Kitting and bundling let your company create interesting product offers that excite customers and benefit your business. Great deals make shoppers more likely to continue buying from you. When you sell products,…

Best Excel Functions for Inventory Management

Inventory control formulas in Excel can increase the efficiency and productivity of your business as you become more organized in your inventory management. As your business grows, you need to keep up with the growing demands, and Microsoft Excel can help you do that. 20 Useful Microsoft Excel Formulas for Inventory Management  Basic inventory management…

Who Should Use ShipStation? A ShipStation Guide

As e-commerce businesses scale their operations, they need an order management tool that can keep up with growth while delivering on-target order tracking and reports. ShipStation is a popular solution that streamlines order fulfillment and stock management. The software gives businesses of all sizes the benefits of automating order processing and streamlining inventory supervision. With Finale…

The Benefits of QR Codes for Your Business

Quick Response codes, or QR codes, have increasingly grown in popularity and usage over the past decade, especially with the increase of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In past years, you might have occasionally seen a QR code that led to an app download or social media account. But over the past several…

How to Sell Consumer Electronics Online

If you have consumer electronics to sell, you need to know a few points about the industry to be as successful as possible.  The first is the high competition in the consumer electronics industry. Consider all of the companies that have major shares in the electronic industry. Apple and Samsung are perfect examples, selling a…

Why Sales Velocity Is Crucial to the E-Commerce Industry

Sales velocity — a measurement of revenue speed and volume — is a valuable measurement for your e-commerce business. From indicating your business’ health to helping you calculate your reordering points, sales velocity in the e-commerce industry can measure your status and show you how to improve. But how do you calculate it, and how can…

The Future of Consumer Electronic Sales Within the E-Commerce Industry

We live in an increasingly connected world. With the internet reaching more homes and devices than ever before, people are continually looking for the latest and greatest technology to keep up with work, school and personal life. The e-commerce industry is in a prime position to capitalize on the growth of online shopping, particularly in…

Square Inventory Management: How to Gain Visibility and Prevent Overselling for Offline and Online Sales

Successful business owners know that inventory is one of the most important aspects of their business. When inventory management is done well, it can make all the difference between a thriving and a failing business. Inventory is important because it is what customers will interact with most. Product listings should reflect when products are in stock and available. As long as you enter the…

How to Calculate Safety Stock: A Step-by-Step Guide

What Is Safety Stock? Why Your Business Needs Safety Stock How to Calculate Safety Stock Calculate Safety Stock Using Standard Deviation Safety Stock Formula Using Standard Deviation Risks Related to Safety Stock Learn More About Using Safety Stock With Finale Inventory One of the first things to know about running a business is that your inventory…

A Guide to QR Codes

The digital age is changing the way business is conducted for everyone. New technology is always in development and being implemented in different industries across the globe. One such development is quick response codes, otherwise known as QR codes.  Though the initial QR code system first appeared in 1994 after being developed by a company called Desso…

Invoicing for Order Management

From its inception, Finale’s great strength has been inventory management. With our latest updates to enable invoicing for order management, Finale has now also become an outstanding order management system for small businesses. A capable order management system must include support for product information, inventory availability, suppliers and reordering, customers and pricing and orders and returns handling. Additionally, support for packing…