Inventory and shipping management software

The key facts

• The shipping loop: pick against live stock → pack with delivery slips → record dispatch → invoice, with payment mirrored back.
• What software contributes: pick validation at the shelf, delivery paperwork from the order, dispatch state the customer can see.
• The boundary: carrier labels, freight rates and tracking numbers are the carrier's systems — BSimple does not claim those integrations.
• BSimple: the stock-to-dispatch loop on one record — from $180/month (AUD), free to trial.
• Context: the full inventory system holds the wider system, this page one stop in it.

What shipping needs from the stock record

Shipping failures are almost always stock-record failures wearing a courier uniform. The wrong item ships because the pick list did not validate at the shelf. The order ships twice because two channels each thought they had it. The dispatch that shipped is not the dispatch the customer was told about. Each is a record problem, and each is why shipping belongs inside inventory software rather than beside it.

The loop that works: pick against live quantities (the scan refusing the wrong line), pack with delivery slips generated from the order — quantities and addresses already true — record dispatch on the order, and invoice it, pushing to accounting with payment status mirrored back. Shipping becomes the exit door of the same record the goods entered through.

The honest boundary at the carrier

Here is what inventory software does not do, stated plainly: print carrier labels, compare freight rates, or track parcels — those are the carrier's systems, and BSimple does not claim integrations with them. When an order is marked dispatched, the tracking story moves to the courier's tracking page, which is where it belongs. Businesses that need multi-carrier label printing run that software alongside and keep the record of truth in the inventory system.

What the record does owe the customer is state: ordered, packed, dispatched, invoiced, paid — visible through their portal, driven by the work itself. The order-tracking view covers that visibility; what order management is covers the whole path.

How BSimple runs the loop

We build BSimple, so weigh that. The stock-to-dispatch loop is the product's spine: orders from the portal, phone or Shopify import flow into pick and pack against live quantities — scanning validating the movement where volumes justify it — dispatch is recorded on the order, and the approved invoice pushes to Xero or MYOB with payment status mirroring back. Purchasing sits upstream on the same record, so the goods shipping out this week are the goods the record already knows about. Plans start at $180/month (AUD), everything in the core plans.

The honest test: take one real order from placement to packed-to-invoice in the trial and check that every state it passed through is one your customer could have been told, truthfully, at the time.