Inventory Management
Build a product catalog with barcode scanning
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe the product catalog with barcode scanning you need — item fields, bin labels, camera scans, movements, customer part numbers, and reorder points — and it builds the app.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t an inventory package you force your stockroom into — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the item database, labels, scan flow, movement history, permissions, and reports. What you get is a real app that’s yours. You can change it later by asking for changes and run it on your own domain or private app URL. It isn’t a template catalog.
On this page, that app is a product catalog with barcode scanning. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this one is for stockrooms where naming and counting need to be reliable.
Why the same part has three names
A stock item can have the manufacturer’s number, the customer’s number, and the name written on the bin. If those become separate items, the stockroom cannot answer how many it has.
Kliv builds the catalog as a database with one row per part. Attributes such as thread, pitch, grade, finish, and bin are fields. Other names attach as cross-references. The barcode is just the quickest way to point to the right row.
Everything a label points to
A barcode is a pointer. These records are what it points into.
The item record
Thread, pitch, grade, finish, and bin are fields the database can filter. A uniqueness rule can refuse duplicate rows for the same part.
Labels and bins
Every bin gets a printed label generated from the item row. Reprint after a move or relabel; the code still points to the record.
Cross-references
Manufacturer numbers, distributor numbers, and customer part numbers map to one item. An order with BRK-40022 can still find your bin.
Counts and movements
A scan records an event: who scanned, which item, how many, and whether stock moved in or out. Counts and history explain each other.
Reorder points
Each item stores its minimum and usual supplier. When a movement drops stock below the line, it appears on the suggested order list.
An example: Edwin’s fastener counter
Here’s how one stockroom might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own item fields, labels, scan events, customer numbers, and reorder rules.
The fields narrow the search
A contractor brings in a corroded bolt. Edwin filters M10, 1.25 pitch, flanged, and zinc. Four fields leave one surviving row.
The scan opens the exact item
A phone camera reads the bin label and opens the record: 41 in stock, last received in April. The counter answers with a number.
The sale records a movement
Two hundred leave the counter as a movement row with who and when. The count updates because the event happened.
The customer number is added once
The contractor’s PO calls the bolt FST-1188. That number joins the item’s cross-references, so the next order can be typed from their paperwork.
The reorder list catches the shortage
The withdrawal puts stock below minimum. The item appears on the next reorder list with its supplier and usual quantity, waiting for a human yes.
Describe what you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so include item fields, label rules, scan actions, movement types, permissions, and reorder logic. Here are three examples:
Fastener counter catalog
Threads, grades, bins, scans, and reorder points.
“Build a catalog for our fastener distribution business with thread size, pitch, grade, finish, and bin location as fields; barcode labels per bin; phone-camera scanning for counts and movements; customer part-number cross-references; and reorder minimums per item.”
Electronics lab stockroom
Components, drawers, projects, and movement history.
“Build a stockroom catalog for our electronics lab with components by value, footprint, package, and drawer; barcode labels on every drawer; scan-in and scan-out movement history per project; and low-stock alerts for common parts.”
Ceramic studio glaze shelf
Batches, hazards, containers, and consumption logs.
“Build a materials catalog for our ceramics studio with glazes and raw materials by batch, hazard notes per item, barcode labels on containers, and a scan log of what each firing consumed.”
After the scan
Scanning is part of your own app. The camera scanner runs in the browser on a phone in the aisle. No dedicated hardware or companion app is required. A scan can count, move, receive, or flag an item for relabeling.
Permissions follow the job. Counter staff can move stock; office staff can edit items, cross-references, and reorder points. The split is enforced by the app.
The morning list can run on a schedule. A scheduled job can draft the reorder list at 6 and email the office before the first van leaves.
Much of stockroom confusion comes from two people using different names for the same thing. A catalog ends that argument. Most businesses carry a dozen arguments like it — internal tools that end arguments.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI that builds custom web apps from a description. For a barcode catalog, it builds item records, label generation, camera scanning, movement logs, reorder lists, and admin screens around your stockroom.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Your items, bins, labels, scans, movements, customer part numbers, and reorder rules live in a database built for your business.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can add item fields, change label formats, add scan actions, adjust permissions, or change reorder rules by asking for changes.
Do we need special scanners?
No. The scanner can be the camera on a phone, reading labels through a page in your app. You can print labels on any label printer that fits your workflow.
Can we import the spreadsheet we have now?
Yes. You can upload it and describe the columns. Duplicates can merge into one row with review for uncertain matches.
How do customer part numbers work?
They live in a cross-reference table: customer number, your item, one row per pairing. Orders can be entered in the customer’s terms and picked in yours.
What stops duplicate items?
A uniqueness rule can reject the second attempt and point to the existing row.
Can scans record who moved stock?
Yes. Movement rows can store the user, item, quantity, direction, time, and reason.
Can it create reorder suggestions?
Yes. Items can carry minimums and usual suppliers, and a scheduled job can draft reorder suggestions when stock falls below the line.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The catalog can run on your own domain or a private app URL.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, and your catalog records are yours.
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Make the catalog answer on the first scan
Describe your parts, fields, bins, labels, scan actions, customer numbers, and reorder rules in detail. Kliv builds the catalog around them.