What Stockly is

Shopware keeps one number per product: stock. That is sufficient for selling, but it answers none of the questions a warehouse asks: where the goods are, how they got there, who took them away, and why the number in the administration differs from what is on the shelf.

Stockly adds the layer that answers these questions.

The vocabulary

Warehouse — a building or a separate space: a hall, a shop floor, a pickup point. Each warehouse has its own stock and its own rules. A product can be held in several warehouses at once.

Bin location — a specific shelf, pallet or container. It has a code, a capacity, a role and a position on the floor plan. Stock without a location is a normal state as well: it is held in the unassigned pool, it remains sellable, and it can be placed on a shelf later.

Movement — every change of stock: a receipt, a pick, a relocation, a stocktake correction, a loss. Every movement records the source, the destination, the quantity, the reason and the operator.

Operation — work to be carried out by a person: picking, put-away, counting. It has a state, it can be held, and it can be resumed later.

Batch — goods received together, with their purchase price, expiry date and lot number. Batches make it possible to determine which unit was sent to which customer. → Glossary — the rest of the terms, explained the same way.

What changes in Shopware

Once the catalogue is linked, product stock is no longer a manually entered value and becomes the sum of the quantities held in the warehouses. Orders start creating movements, and every correction carries a reason in the history.

The shop continues to work in the same way: sales channels, prices and orders remain unchanged. What changes is the source of the availability figure, and the fact that it can be explained.

Where to put the goods

The floor plan is drawn by hand, but the shelf does not have to be determined manually. During put-away the module proposes a location and states the reason for that proposal, among them that the product is already stored there, that the shelf is close to the picking station, that stock scattered over several locations is worth consolidating, that the batch already shares a shelf with the same expiry date, or that the shelf lies at a comfortable working height. → Put-away · Slot allocation

Independently of that, the module checks whether goods are still stored where they should be and reports Relocation suggestions with a reason: Velocity increased, Velocity decreased, Stock consolidation, Expiry risk. → Relocation suggestions

What Stockly does not do

• It does not replace an accounting system. It records purchase prices and stock value, but it keeps no ledgers.
• It does not draw the building. Racks, aisles and doors are placed on the floor plan manually; the module never determines where a rack stands.
• It does not require scanners or terminals. Keyboard and mouse are sufficient; a scanner is a convenience, not a condition.

Next steps

1. Installation — what to switch on and what to check.
2. Menu and navigation — how the module is laid out.
3. Initial setup — the wizard that links the catalogue.
4. A day of work — what it looks like in practice.
5. Your first pick — one wave from the order list to a closed parcel.

If the module is being introduced in a shop that already sells, start with the Rollout section.