Bee Low Stock Alert & Forecast

Bee Low Stock Alert & Forecast

Pricing
Free plan available. Free trial available.
Rating
4.9 (134)
Developer
merchbees

Get low inventory notifications, calculate reorder quantities, set dynamic thresholds with forecast!

This app provides a quick and effective solution to track low stock products and replenish them. Merchbees notifies you and your vendor when the inventory of product is below a chosen threshold. This way, you can restock the products before they are out of stock. You can also set the maximum stock level (order up to level), and Merchbees calculates the reorder quantity automatically. With forecasting module, thresholds are calculated based on the sales velocity of each product and updated daily.

This app provides a quick and effective solution to track low stock products and replenish them. Merchbees notifies you and your vendor when the inventory of product is below a chosen threshold. This way, you can restock the products before they are out of stock. You can also set the maximum stock level (order up to level), and Merchbees calculates the reorder quantity automatically. With forecasting module, thresholds are calculated based on the sales velocity of each product and updated daily. more
  • Create unlimited instant and scheduled alerts, and get email/slack notifcations
  • Set maximum stock level (order up to level), auto-calculate reorder inventory
  • Set dynamic thresholds based on sales forecasting and stock cover days
  • Use multiple filters; location, collection, vendor, tag, product, or SKU
  • Sales, forecast, and inventory reports with export functionality

Languages

English

Works with

  • Slack
  • 2048 Variants

Pricing

Free Plan

Free

  • Up to 250 SKU
  • 1 scheduled alert (daily/weekly/monthly)
  • Storewide/collection/vendor/tag/product notifications
  • Real-time report
  • CSV attachment

Professıonal Plan

$5.99 / month

or $59.88/year and save 17%

  • Up to 8,000 SKU
  • Free plan features
  • Unlimited instant/scheduled notifications
  • Location-based stock tracking
  • Unlimited locations & recipients

14-day free trial

Advanced Plan

$11.99 / month

or $119.88/year and save 17%

  • Up to 100,000 SKU
  • Professional plan features
  • Bulk import thresholds w/CSV
  • Set maximum stock
  • Calculate reorder inventory
  • Slack notification

14-day free trial

Enterprıse Plan

$39.99 / month

or $399.96/year and save 17%

  • Up to 100,000 SKU
  • Advanced plan features
  • Sales forecasting
  • Dynamic thresholds with sales forecast
  • Sales, forecast, inventory and KPI report

14-day free trial

All charges are billed in USD. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days. See all pricing options

Reviews (134)

Overall rating
4.9
Counts per rating level
  • 98% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 1% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 1% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

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Merchants highly value this app for its effective inventory management, particularly its timely low stock alerts and automated inventory level management for businesses with numerous SKUs. Features include customizable alerts, weekly stock reports, and integrations like Slack. The interface is user-friendly, and the responsive customer support is frequently praised. A free plan is available, with scalable options for advanced features.

February 10, 2025

* In summary, I recommend Bee Low Stock Alert & Forecast (Bee LSA) for small stores (like us), and the developer is quite helpful and pleasant. I cannot comment on how this app might work for larger stores, only because that is not my experience.

* I teetered between giving 4 or 5 stars for the review. In the end, Merchbees' excellent customer service won me over for giving 5 stars.

* Our store sells a combination of new and used products. We usually have 2000-3000 active SKUs. We need alerts for the new products in our store, and for some of the used products we restock. As I write this, we have 19 Bee LSA emailed alerts set up.

* I don't have experience with other Low Stock Alert apps, so this is my experience using this one app.

* How we use Bee Low Stock Alert:
* We use Bee LSA in a simple way for our store. I'll describe how we use it here in case it helps someone else. This may be TMI!

* Product Tags:
* I have added a product tag for each supplier we use to the products we buy from them. These product tags are all formatted, "Supplier - _____". I created an LSA for each supplier by filtering to include only the product tag, "Supplier - ____"

* Collection Filter Alternative. We have a few LSAs that include products in a certain collection instead of including by a product tag. For example, we have a collection for used products we restock. These have no supplier to reorder from. We restock only as we are able to. We have an LSA set up for this collection.

* Discontinued. If a product is no longer available or is only special order, then we add a product tag, "No Low Stock Alert." Every LSA I have created is also filtered to exclude products with this product tag.

* Using these product tags makes it easy for on-site staff (who order products) to apply product tags to include or exclude products from the emailed LSA reports.

* For most suppliers, I have created a weekly report for them. Some suppliers, I created a monthly report for. We have a few I created an "on-demand" report for.

* Supplier Metafield Added.
* Because this process works along with this app, I will also add that I created a product metafield called "Supplier Info." (Settings > Custom data > Products) It is a multi-line text field we use to capture the supplier name, product number used for reordering, min order qty of a product, etc. For our purposes, the Vendor field is used for the product "brand." Supplier is who we order the products from, which may include a long list of vendors or brands. When a product shows up on a Bee LSA email for a particular supplier, we write the re-order qty on the printed email. We can then go down the list to look up each product and look at the "Supplier Info" field to have what we need to re-order.

* Use Purchase Orders.
* We create a Shopify Purchase Order for each supplier order. If a product is listed on a PO showing it has been reordered, this affects the Shopify inventory quantity. The Bee LSA emailed report has columns for "inventory quantity" and "incoming inventory." Using POs can keep you from reordering the same product more often then you should.

* Challenges.
* The menus and interface are ok, but I don't always find the menus and User Interface intuitive to me. Things are in unexpected places or fields are in unexpected orders. I have to look around and try things out a little more than expected.

* For example, as of right now:
1. I expect product "sort type" to be right after the "filter and input thresholds." What do you want and how do you want it organized? But sort type is at the end of the "Notification" tab. This does not make logical sense to me.
2. I have "sort type" set for "Product title A-Z." "Inventory Quantity" sort type is another option that might be helpful to others? It is not what I need. I *wish* I could sort by SKU number, but that is not a sort type option.
3. Even better would be the ability to sort by more than 1 field. I'd select 1st by collection, then 2nd by either SKU number or Product Name

* (However, If I can't figure something out, I contact the developer. There is a chat feature in the app. Developer is always helpful either by chat or email.)

* I have been printing emailed reports (vs staff printing onsite) because they print a lot nicer from my Gmail account than from an email in MS Outlook. Outlook email prints them really weird and nearly unusable. Gmail looks great. We checked all the Outlook print settings, and could not figure out how to make these emails print better. All other Outlook emails print fine.

* Positive Upsides.
* I appreciate that I can add a default minimum and default maximum inventory quantity for each LSA report to trigger when products will be included on the report. I can also set a different value on each product if I need a higher or lower number for certain products. This feature works great.

* Merchbees developer is very responsive and helpful. This is absolutely a HUGE plus!! Today, Kübra was very helpful and pleasant when we online chatted. I think there is a time difference and was pleasantly surprised at the quick chat response. I expected an email back.

* Always when I have stumbled or had questions when setting up alerts, the developer has been quick to respond, pleasant, and helpful. I really appreciate this. I have provided a fair amount of feedback in the past when I'm in the middle of things, because I know it can be helpful. Merchbees has asked clarifying questions and implemented some of my suggestions. Yay!

* Once our LSA emailed reports were set up and automated as described above, they have worked well consistently. I generally only think about them when I have to set up a new alert for a new supplier, or something has changed with our products.

* Merchbees is great to work with!

Re-Do Banshee
United States
Over 1 year using the app
January 12, 2025

Longtime Low Stock Alert & Forecasting user here. The app keeps getting better with more robust filtering for Low Inventory Alerts. The app is very intuitive and easy-to-use. Support, though rarely required, it outstanding. Mete is incredibly responsive. This is one of the best Shopify apps we have found. If you are looking to automate managing your inventory levels and restocking, be sure to check this app out

Slot Car Corner
United States
Over 3 years using the app
December 24, 2024

I used this app during our busy season of manufacturing for Q4 to make sure we were keeping up with our orders. This app produced a handy weekly list of items that were low in stock. This weekly report also took into account what wholesale orders we had outstanding. It was vital in prioritizing our production efficiently. I'll be using this app again as we ramp up this spring!

Designed For Joy
United States
4 months using the app

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