Inventory API for developers

Add reliable inventory control to your software

Building stock control properly involves considerably more than storing a quantity against a SKU. Sales, purchase-order receipts, stocktakes and manual adjustments all affect that quantity, while the system must preserve enough history to explain how the current position was reached.

TrueSKU centralises SKUs, stock movements, sales, suppliers, purchasing and connected sales channels. Developers and software providers can use it as an inventory-control layer behind their own customer-facing workflow.

What could you build with TrueSKU?

TrueSKU may be suitable where an application needs to:

• Create or manage products and SKUs.
• Send sales from an order-processing or eCommerce workflow into a controlled stock ledger.
• Record stock adjustments with reasons and a traceable movement history.
• Read current stock availability for use elsewhere.
• Work with supplier and purchasing information.
• Use one central stock position behind multiple marketplaces or commerce platforms.
• Connect an existing application to TrueSKU inventory and, where supported, channel-sync capabilities.

For example, an order-management, warehouse, fulfilment or specialist eCommerce application could retain its own interface and workflow while TrueSKU handles the underlying inventory records.

More than a stock quantity

TrueSKU is designed around controlled stock movements rather than a single unexplained number. Sales, purchase-order receipts, stocktakes, adjustments and other changes can contribute to a traceable history. Listings from different sales channels can be linked to an internal SKU so that one trusted stock position can inform availability across supported integrations.

This gives developers an established inventory model to integrate with instead of recreating every part of stock movement history, purchasing, bundles and reconciliation themselves.

Who this may suit

• Order-management and shipping software.
• Warehouse or fulfilment applications.
• Specialist marketplace and eCommerce tools.
• Bespoke business systems that need a dependable stock position.
• Software providers that want to add inventory functionality without developing a complete inventory platform.

A flexible arrangement

The right arrangement depends on what the application needs, how customers will use it and the expected scale. Useful points to discuss include:

• The inventory functions and data flows required.
• Whether each business will use its own TrueSKU account.
• Expected SKU, sales and API volumes.
• Whether TrueSKU will be visible to the end customer.
• Implementation and ongoing support requirements.

We are currently inviting enquiries from developers and software businesses interested in using TrueSKU in this way.