Cloud has two subsets of features for Inventory Management: Basic Inventory and Advanced Inventory. Basic Inventory includes entry-level features, and Advanced Inventory includes all inventory-related features.
You can enable Basic Inventory or Advanced Inventory when enabling the Inventory Management functionality on Cloud. If you enable Basic Inventory, you can upgrade to the Advanced mode later.
Here is a comparison of the features available with Basic Inventory and Advanced Inventory.
Criterion | Basic Inventory | Advanced Inventory |
Tracking |
For example, an inventory-tracked item, a Samsung TV, with a count of 2 |
For example, an inventory-tracked item, a Samsung TV, with a count of 2, and both TVs are tracked using IDs and metadata |
What it looks like in the database |
For example, 2 Samsung TVs |
For example, 2 database rows for 2 different Samsung TVs, with serial numbers RBE2345WA and RBE2346WA |
Product Metadata support |
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QR Label support |
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Project allocation |
For example, Project A is allocated 2 Samsung TVs |
For example, Project A is allocated 2 Samsung TVs with serial numbers RBE2345WA and RBE2346WA |
Service call allocation |
For example, a non-functional Samsung TV is replaced with a new Samsung TV |
For example, a non-functional Samsung TV with a serial number RBE2345WA is replaced with a new Samsung TV with a serial number RBE2346WA |
Cloud Database Lookup support |
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