Documentation

Documentation & guides

Everything you need to get the most out of Simple Inventory Management — a short guide for each section of the app, plus how to connect Claude to your live stock.

Using the app

One guide for each major section. Each is also linked from a Help link next to that section in the app.

Inventory

The master list of everything you track — the four counts, values, low-stock alerts and per-item QR codes.

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Assemblies

Build a recipe from the parts you stock and see how many you can make, what each costs, and which part is the bottleneck.

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Inventory Snapshots

Freeze a point-in-time record of every count so you can audit and reconcile against it later.

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Orders

Track inbound and outbound orders with suppliers, invoices and tracking — stock flows automatically on completion.

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Team

Invite teammates by email to share a company’s inventory — everyone works from the same live numbers.

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Single sign-on (SSO)

Verify your domain and put a company behind your own SAML identity provider — require SSO and auto-provision your team.

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AI & integrations

Connect an AI assistant to your live stock through the built-in, OAuth-secured MCP server.

Connect Claude

Step-by-step setup for connecting Claude (or another MCP client) over OAuth — no API keys to manage.

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What is an MCP server?

A plain-English explainer of the Model Context Protocol and why an inventory tool ships with one.

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Manage stock by chatting

What you can actually do in a conversation once Claude is connected to your inventory.

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Looking for industry how-tos and longer reads? Browse the blog, or see what’s new in the changelog. Questions we don’t cover here? Get in touch.