Store Inventory Management

Store stock you can finally trust.

Queens ships 6 sweatshirts on transfer order TO10412 and Brooklyn receives them; stock moves at both stores. Brooklyn counts backstock, head office reviews the count and accepts a variance of minus 1, and Brooklyn's stock updates to 10.

Receive exactly what arrived.

Know what’s on every shelf.

Show the right stock online.

Receive inventory accurately in every store

Store receiving

Receive transfer orders in store

Move stock from warehouses to stores, or between stores, with an accurate count at both ends. HotWax Commerce reads the latest fulfilled transfer orders from your ERP or WMS and creates inbound shipments to receive against.

  1. 1Open
  2. 2Scan
  3. 3Add
  4. 4Complete
Transfer Orders
Open

Receive a transfer order

Receive one real delivery in HotWax Commerce, click by click, on the screens store teams use.

  1. 01Open the deliveryThe transfer order from Queens is already in HotWax.
  2. 02Scan the boxesEvery scan is matched to the order.
  3. 03Add what wasn’t orderedAn extra item goes on record instead of getting lost.
  4. 04Check and closeConfirm what is short or over, then close it.

About a minute. Real order, real screens.

Store receiving

Receive purchase orders in store

Stores can receive purchase orders directly from vendors, too. Purchase orders from your ERP or WMS sync to HotWax Commerce, so store teams receive against the right PO. As they receive, associates record where each item is put away, so pickers find it fast for online orders.

HotWax Receiving app at the Brooklyn store: purchase order PO10433 from a vendor, with tees scanned into backroom locations

Store receiving

Restock returns in store

When stores accept returns, the returned items need to be received and recorded so they can be sold again online. Store associates look up incoming returns in HotWax Commerce and restock returned items in a few steps, adding them back to the store’s inventory.

HotWax Receiving app at the Brooklyn store: a returned online order with four jackets being scanned back into stock

Handle receiving discrepancies

Move stock between stores

Store transfers

Move stock without a shipment

When stock needs to move on paper only, a transfer request moves it from one location’s record to another’s. Nothing changes until someone executes it, and both locations update together.

HotWax Transfers app, inventory transfers: requests to move hoodies and jackets between store records, some waiting to be executed, others complete or cancelled

Store transfers

Track every transfer from ship to receive

Operations teams see each transfer’s status, its timeline, and what was ordered, shipped, and received, item by item. Short, extra, and wrong items show up in one discrepancies view.

HotWax Transfers app: transfer order TO10412 from Queens to Brooklyn, completed, with one item under received and two over received

Keep store counts accurate with cycle counts

Cycle counts and reconciliation

Count stock in store with guided scanning

Head office assigns directed cycle counts to each store, and store associates scan items in guided sessions. Items without a barcode are counted by hand in the same session, and every submitted count goes to head office for review.

  1. 1Open
  2. 2Scan
  3. 3Submit
Brooklyn

Backstock count

9:15 AM 2nd Nov 2026

Due date

6:00 PM 3rd Nov 2026

Start date

10:30 AM 3rd Nov 2026

Sessions

Run a cycle count

Run one real count through HotWax Commerce, click by click, on the screens store teams use.

  1. 01Open the countHead office set up a backstock count for Brooklyn.
  2. 02Scan the shelfScan what is there and hand-count the rest.
  3. 03Submit the sessionLock the counts so they can be reviewed.

About a minute. Real screens.

Plan what each store needs

See where store stock stands

Store and head office teams see how much of each delivery has been received, where a transfer came in short or over, which counts are still open, and how every count closed. Each product’s history shows what moved its stock: sales, deliveries, transfers, and counts.

Receiving · Brooklyn

Purchase order PO10433

Received: 12 of 66 units
12/66units received
Pending3 items
Completed1 item

Transfers

TO10412, Queens to Brooklyn

Completed Oct 29, 2026

Ordered24
Shipped24
Received23
Under received1 item
Over received2 items

Transfers

Inventory transfers

7

Oct 27 to 29, all stores

Requested2
Complete4
Cancelled1

Cycle Count

Assigned counts

10

Across 10 stores

In Progress6
Created4

2 counts due today

Cycle Count · Brooklyn

Closed count

Hoodies count 101032

Accepted: 5 of 6 items
5/6accepted
Items complete6 out of 6
Rejected1
Overall variance-6 units

Inventory · Brooklyn

What moved MH09-XS-Green

Last 30 days, from 90 to 104 available

Purchase order+100
Transfer order+3
Cycle count-2
Sales order-87

Good questions. Straight answers.

Let’s get your store counts right

Short shipments, mispicks, counts that never match. Show us where store stock goes wrong today, and we’ll show you how HotWax keeps it right.