QuickBooks Inventory — Live in the Browser

Advanced Inventory users are precisely the companies that can't migrate — and precisely the ones whose sales team can't see stock without a paid seat on the file. This addon publishes multi-site quantities, reorder points and serial/lot data to anyone who needs to promise, pick or purchase.

Multi-site stock visibility for sales and warehouse — without a single extra QB seat

QB Enterprise Advanced InventoryMulti-site / multi-bin stockSerial & lot number trackingReorder points and assembliesItem sales & movement history

Why Stock Stays Locked in the File

'Can we sell it?' needs a phone call

Sales reps can't see stock — every quote pauses while someone checks the warehouse, or worse, promises get made blind.

A seat just to look

Giving the warehouse or a rep QuickBooks access means buying a licence and granting the whole ledger — so most teams simply don't.

Reorder points fire silently

Stock drops below reorder inside the file — nobody hears about it until the item's already out.

Multi-site means multi-blind

Each site sees its own stock; the consolidated picture lives in a report someone runs weekly.

How It Works

Step 1

Agent on your server

A lightweight agent installs beside your existing system — reads the data store directly, makes outbound connections only. No open ports, no VPN, no firewall changes.

Step 2

Continuous replica

Your records flow to an encrypted, read-only cloud copy via a private tunnel — change-tracking, not dumps. The production system never takes the load.

Step 3

Web dashboard

Your team searches, reports and browses from any browser or phone — scoped and audited. Answers from the data, not access to the server.

What Your Team Can Finally Do

Live stock by site, bin and item — searchable in seconds
Available vs allocated quantities — what you can actually promise
Reorder-point breach alerts, pushed automatically
Serial and lot lookup by item, customer or order
Movement history per item — turns, dead stock, seasonality
Sales-facing view without costs or margins exposed
Warehouse view scoped to picking and counts
Mobile-first — works from the counter, the van, the floor

Common QuickBooks Inventory Access Scenarios

The quote on the phone

Rep checks live available-to-promise while the customer is still talking — no callback, no oversell.

The re-order that fires itself

Reorder breaches surface as alerts to purchasing — the stockout gets prevented, not reported.

The recall lookup

A faulty batch surfaces — serial/lot search shows which orders took which units in seconds, not a day of archive-diving.

Inventory Access Pricing

Every plan includes the agent, the replica and the dashboard. Setup is scoped to your systems — most installs are live within two weeks.

Add-on

£59/mo

Add to any tier

  • ✓Multi-site live stock
  • ✓Reorder alerts
  • ✓Serial/lot lookup
  • ✓Unlimited viewer seats
  • ✓Sales & warehouse views
  • ✓Email support
Most Popular

Operations Pack

£99/mo

Bundle

  • ✓Inventory Lookup
  • ✓Documents & Attachments
  • ✓Alerts engine
  • ✓~22% off list prices
  • ✓Priority support
  • ✓Quarterly review

Enterprise

Included

Bundled

  • ✓All read-side addons
  • ✓Unlimited files
  • ✓SSO + audit feed
  • ✓SLA + service credits
  • ✓Dedicated engineer
  • ✓Custom retention

Requires a DevPros replica tier (from £59/mo). Compare one QB seat per viewer at £40–60/mo — unlimited viewers is the point.

QuickBooks Inventory Access Data Access FAQ

Does this need Advanced Inventory?+

No — standard item quantities work on any edition. Advanced Inventory adds multi-site, bins and serials which we surface natively.

Can reps see cost prices or margins?+

Only if you configure it — the sales view defaults to quantities and sell-side info only. Costs stay hidden.

How live is 'live'?+

The replica syncs continuously — typically seconds behind QuickBooks, close enough for promise decisions.

Does it work with barcodes / scanners?+

Lookup by barcode or SKU is supported; scanner integration for counts and picks is on the write-back roadmap.

Your QuickBooks Inventory Access Data, Reachable

If the answers your team needs live in a system nobody can reach, that's fixable — without migration, without VPN, without new infrastructure.