Running a second warehouse or site without losing track
Each site's own stock, transfers between them that are tracked in transit, and orders routed to the site that can fill them.
You know this if…
- Stock moved to the new site by van, and the spreadsheet never heard.
- The website sells stock that's sitting at the wrong site.
- Each site counts its own way, and the totals never add up.
- Someone drives across town to check what's on the shelf.
Why it happens
One site can be run from memory. Two can't: stock is in one place on paper and another on the road, and every transfer is a phone call that may or may not get written down.
The gap is the van. Between leaving one site and arriving at the next, stock belongs to neither, and a paper system usually counts it twice or not at all.
How Manifold handles it
Every location in Manifold has its own stock. A transfer takes stock out of one when it's despatched, carries it as in transit, and puts it into the other when it's received — so it's never in two places or none.
Add the site
Settings › Locations: a warehouse, shop or unit, whether its stock can be sold, its address and its priority.
Move stock with a transfer
Inventory › Transfers › New transfer: from, to, the lines, and a reference for the docket.
Despatch, then receive
Despatching takes it off the first site and shows it in transit; receiving at the other end puts it on the shelf. Short or damaged is flagged.
Orders go to the right site
Orders are routed by your site priority, or to the site nearest the customer, and each Shopify location sells only its own site's stock.
What you can check
In transit is its own figure
Stock on the road is counted as in transit, never on both shelves or neither, and shows on each SKU's page.
Transfers →Your rules for moving stock
Allow two-step and instant transfers, only one of them, or none — a setting on the Transfers screen.
Locations →Each site receives its own
The Receiving station lists the purchase orders and transfers due at its site, to scan in on arrival.
Receiving →Questions people ask
- Does a second site cost more?
- No. Manifold is one plan with every feature and your whole team; locations aren't charged for.
- Can one Shopify store sell from both sites?
- Yes. Link each Shopify location to a Manifold location and each one shows its own site's available stock; orders can follow Shopify's choice of location or Manifold's routing.
- Will Manifold rebalance stock between sites for me?
- Not automatically. You decide what moves, with a transfer; Manifold tracks it from despatch to receipt.
- 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
How to stop overselling across Shopify and wholesale
Stop selling stock you no longer have: one count across Shopify and wholesale, with orders holding units and the store's figure updated within seconds.
Only one person knows where everything is
When stock lives in one person's head: every SKU's stock by location and every movement recorded with its document and who did it, searchable by anyone.
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.