New: AI packing slip scanner and customer order portal

The two jobs small businesses hate most in inventory are typing in supplier deliveries and chasing customer orders through email and WhatsApp. Today StockSimple takes both off your plate.

1. AI packing slip & invoice scanner

A delivery arrives with a crumpled packing slip listing 20 items. Normally someone sits down and types every SKU and quantity into the system — slow, boring, and easy to get wrong.

Now you open the purchase order, choose Import receiving document, and snap a photo of the slip (or upload the supplier's PDF invoice). StockSimple's AI reads each line — product code, description and quantity delivered — and matches it against what you ordered.

• Works with phone photos (JPG, PNG, WEBP) and PDF invoices.
• Matches by SKU first, then by exact product name — it never guesses.
• Flags unknown items, over-deliveries and duplicates before anything changes.
• Nothing touches your stock until you review and confirm.
• Every received line is recorded in Stock Movements, with the same audit trail as manual receiving.

The result: receiving a delivery takes seconds instead of half an hour, and your counts stay right because the numbers come straight off the supplier's paperwork.

2. Customer order portal

If you sell to trade customers, shops or restaurants, you know the drill: orders arrive by text, voicemail and email, someone checks stock, then types the order up. Things get missed.

With the customer order portal you get one shareable link —stocksimpleinventory.com/order/your-company. Your customers open it on any device, see live availability (and prices, if you choose), add quantities and submit.

• Orders land in Customer Orders as drafts, with the customer's details and PO reference.
• You confirm and ship as normal — stock only moves when you ship, so nothing is reserved by mistake.
• Choose which location fulfils portal orders, add a welcome message, and hide prices or out-of-stock items.
• Turn it off any time; the link simply shows a friendly "not available" page.

Why this matters

Most inventory tools only record what already happened. These two features remove the manual steps on both sides of your stock: what comes in from suppliers and what goes out to customers. Less typing, fewer mistakes, and customers who can order from you at 10pm without a phone call.

Which plans include them?

Both features are included on the Business, Multi-Location and Enterprise plans, and in every 14-day free trial — so you can try them on your own deliveries and customers before you pay anything.