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inFlow Inventory

E-COMM
Velocity5.0

Inventory and order management software for small and medium businesses

www.inflowinventory.com ↗

inFlow publishes original operator research, and buries its product news inside it

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◆Current state
inFlow's feed is mostly a content operation around small-business inventory: buyer comparison guides, a pricing breakdown, a Secret Life of Inventory podcast, and compliance explainers for GS1 Sunrise 2027. What distinguishes it from a generic SEO blog is the original research — a survey of 1,000 American shoppers on stockouts and tariff blame, and 108 construction operators on how site inventory actually gets counted, which is usually on paper. Product news appears rarely; production management for web and mobile is the one real release in this window.
◆Where it's heading
The editorial bet is on operator-level evidence rather than keyword coverage, and the recurring finding across both studies is the same: the target customer is running on paper and improvisation. That framing sets up the product direction visible in the production management release — getting the shop floor onto mobile — and the GS1 Sunrise 2027 coverage points at a barcode transition every inventory vendor's customers will have to absorb.
◆Prediction
Expect GS1 Sunrise 2027 to move from explainer content toward actual product readiness, since the deadline is the one dated obligation facing this customer base.

◆Recent moves

  1. 22d ago

    Top 10 Inventory Software for Small Businesses in 2026: Compared

    A ten-platform comparison organised by sales model, arguing a manufacturer and a distributor need opposite feature sets. Buyer-stage comparison content, not a product change.

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  2. 27d ago

    Secret Life of Inventory – Episode #25 – How to Optimize Your Warehouse Efficiency: People, Space & Software (ft. Adrian Betts)

    A podcast episode arguing that hiring, expanding space and buying software are usually the wrong first fixes for a messy warehouse. Part of the recurring series.

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  3. 29d ago

    Stocked Out: What 1,000 American Shoppers Really Think About Tariffs, Empty Shelves, and Broken Trust

    Original survey of 1,000 shoppers finding only about one in five blames tariffs for shortages in the abstract, with attribution shifting once the empty shelf is specific. Research content that supports positioning rather than shipping anything.

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  4. 1mo ago

    GS1 Sunrise 2027 Compliance Guide: How to Prepare Your Business Now

    A preparation guide for GS1's Sunrise 2027 shift in product identification and point-of-sale handling. The one dated compliance obligation the customer base is facing.

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  5. 1mo ago

    How to Manage Construction Site Inventory: What 108 Operators Told Us

    Survey of 108 construction operators finding paper is still the default for site inventory counts. Pairs with the stockout study as evidence for how unmanaged the target market is.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Manufacturing Execution Software: The Key to Smarter Production

    An explainer on manufacturing execution software framed around a batch failing quality control with only paper records to investigate. Category education adjacent to the production management feature.

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