Major Feature Announcement: Front End Inventory Management

Front end admins get a powerful new tool today with the introduction of the Inventory Management page!

Inventory Management is a feature-full hub for your customers to get insight into their inventory, make purchase orders to restock, communicate with other users about specific parts, and more.    

Customers who prefer to have a hands-on approach to inventory management and want data at their fingertips will love the Inventory Management page. It essentially combines on-the-fly inventory reporting with a suite of management tools.

As an information tool, the Inventory Management page allows admins to:

• View a full list of products, static, print on demand, apparel, and promo.
• Drag and drop columns to group the list by different categories.
• Dynamically search, sort, filter, and alter columns to find what you’re looking for.
• Save your favorite views to quickly access the right information.

As a management tool, the Inventory Management page allows admins to:

• Make purchase orders to restock inventory.
• Download files associated with a product (print-ready PDFs or image files).
• Get more information about a product.
• See the order history of a product.
• Start a conversation about a product and tag other users to pull in.

Inventory Management is your customers’ new hub for all things inventory-related. Give your customers greater control and insight into their inventory!

Benefits to the Customer

• One centralized page for admins to manage inventory on the portal.
• Quickly fetch the information you need with a dynamic list filtering, sorting, and searching.
• Save customized inventory list views that all front end admins can access.
• Place purchase orders, download part images and PDFs, and open conversations on parts all from one page.
• Perform inventory-related administrative tasks quicker and get on with your day!

Benefits to You

• Give customers a centralized page to make inventory management simpler.
• Allow customers to place purchase orders from their portal to restock inventory.
• Be a better partner to your customers by adding an intuitive and flexible tool to their portal that gives them greater control over their inventory.

How It Works

Inventory Management is a page accessible by front end admins. You can find the option to give or rescind access to the Inventory Management page in the Admin Pages section of a user’s details.

On the portal, the Inventory Management page is found at the bottom of the Admin menu. Once on the Inventory Management page, admins can customize the view of the inventory list.

• Dragging column headers into the top bar will divide the list into collapsible groups based on that column.
• Clicking the three-dot icon next to any column header allows you to sort the list, add or remove columns, and filter the list.
• Once an admin has customized the view of the list to their liking, they can click the Save View button to give the view a name for easy access.

To the right of each item on the inventory list are a number of tools. In order from left to right, these tools are:

1. Files: Download the files associated with this part.
2. Create PO: Create a purchase order.
3. More Details: See more information about a part.
4. Part History: See a graphical view of a part’s order history.
5. Conversations: Open a dialogue box to add comments to a part. Tag users with @username. Tagged users will receive emails when new comments are added.

In the back end, when a user creates a purchase order from the Inventory Management page, it will come in as a Restock Order with a status of Approval Pending. You’ll be able to see any comments the front end admin added to the purchase order.

We believe Inventory Management will be a welcome addition to the toolbox of front end admins!

As always, reach out if you have any questions about this new feature. You can contact our support team at: support@propago.com or 512-887-5847