Only one person knows where everything is
Put what's in their head into a record everyone can search: what's at each site, how it got there, and who moved it.
You know this if…
- Questions about stock wait until one particular person is back from lunch.
- You can't take a holiday without the phone ringing.
- A new starter takes months to become useful.
- When stock goes missing, nobody can say when or where.
Why it happens
In a business run on paper, the record is a person. They know which site has the blue ones, which delivery was short and why the count is off, because they were there, and none of it was written anywhere anyone else can read.
That works until they're away, or leave, or the business grows past what one head can hold.
How Manifold handles it
Manifold records every movement of stock as it happens — received, transferred, picked, adjusted, counted — with the document it belongs to and the person who did it. Anyone with access can see where a SKU is and how it got there.
Find anything
Search by SKU, name or barcode, from the inventory list or the search box on every screen.
Stock where it sits
A SKU's page shows its stock at each location: on hand, reserved, available, damaged, in transit and incoming.
The story of every unit
Its activity lists every change ever recorded: the purchase order it came in on, each transfer, each recount and each order that holds it.
Each person sees their part
Give people roles — fulfilment, receiving, stock control, purchasing — and the screens for their job, from a phone at a station or the full back office.
What you can check
Nothing is overwritten
Every change is recorded as it happens and kept: Manifold's record is the list of what happened, not just today's figure.
The activity log →Roles for every job
Fulfilment, receiving, stock control, purchasing, wholesale rep and more: each opens the screens that job needs and nothing else.
Your team →Serials and lots too
Track a serial number or a batch through every receipt, transfer and sale, with expiry dates picked first-expiring-first.
Tracking →Questions people ask
- Can Manifold track bins or shelves?
- Manifold tracks stock by location — a warehouse, a shop, a unit — not by bin or shelf inside one. Most small teams name their sites and keep shelf labels as they are.
- How do we get what's in their head into Manifold?
- Bring it in from a spreadsheet or your Shopify store, then do an opening stocktake: it gives every SKU a count and a cost at each location. From then on, every movement is recorded as it happens.
- Can I see who changed something?
- Yes. Every change records who made it — a person, a station's user, an app or an AI agent acting for someone — and when.
- Do I have to stop using what I have now?
- No. Every new Manifold business starts read-only: orders come in, imports run and your team works in Manifold in full, but nothing goes out — no stock to your store, no email to customers — until an owner goes live. Run it beside your paper and spreadsheets until you trust it.
See it on your own products.
Nothing changes until you say so.
Connect your Shopify store or bring a spreadsheet, and your own products, stock and orders are in Manifold the same day. Every new business starts read-only: your team can work in it in full while nothing goes out — no stock to your store, no email to customers — until an owner goes live. Free for 60 days.
Other problems we fix
Your stocktake never reconciles
A stocktake that ends in a spreadsheet nobody trusts: count by location, see each variance before you complete, and post the differences with their cost.
Running a second warehouse or site without losing track
A second warehouse, shop or unit without losing track: stock per site, transfers tracked in transit, orders routed to the site that can fill them.
Too many pick-list errors? Pick on a phone, not a clipboard
Wrong items and missed lines from paper pick lists: pick on a phone or tablet instead, scanning each item, with short picks recorded and the box suggested.