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Groqit and your business
Groqit can help many business that use standard retail barcodes for
inventory tracking. See full
details here, along with international barcode information.
Using a Groqit in a small Retail Store
Groqit can help you check to see what's in stock, check in items in your
incoming shipments, keep track of inventory for reordering.
Since the Groqit can be used anywhere, you can conduct inventories at remote
locations - the Groqit goes wherever the inventory is. If you have
multiple locations you can take the Groqit with you, or coordinate the information
using multiple Groqits.
Groqit is particularly useful with very diverse inventories. See
the Example here of how a Groqit is used in a shoe store.
How easy is it to start using a Groqit?
Because it is highly integrated, Groqit is the easiest and most efficient
inventory system available.
Ramping up to do an inventory takes a fraction of the time it takes to
put together a barcode reader, software, and portable terminal, often from
multiple makers. See specific tutorials for examples of just how
simple and easy this can be.
Do I need to have my computer available?
No. A Groqit is a portable, standalone device. You can use
it almost anywhere. It does not require external power, another computer
or a wireless connection. If you travel in your business and carry
your inventory with you, your Groqit can keep track on the move.
How can I use my Groqit with my existing inventory system?
The Groqit is designed with an extremely simple data storage design. Third-parties
have built programs to read and write Groqit files in only a few hours. Popular
spreadsheets can import and export Groqit files without any problems. The
key is to use the | as the delimiter.
If you have barcodes in a sorted ASCII DOS format on your computer, you
can create a category on your Groqit and place the barcodes in a file called "barcode" without
any extension. Your Groqit, the GDA and Groqit.com will treat this
file as if it was created by the Groqit.
Not a retailer? What a Groqit can do for Contractors, plumbers,
and other "by the job" businesses.
In any craft, a small number of parts account for most of the cost. If
you're a plumber, you probably don't care much about how many copper elbows
you've used, but valves, gages, pressure regulators, etc. are expensive. By
creating a Category for each job, you can scan high-ticket items and know
exactly what you used for that job.
Groqit can help Conventions and Special Event attendee confirmation
Groqit lets you designate a barcode for each guest. The Groqit can
be used to immediately confirm the validity of a badge or printed invitaion,
and can also be used to instantly identify, by swiping a barcode on their
badge (for instance) that they have requested information from the vendor
or other attendee who has a list of barcodes gathered by those wishing to
be contacted, i.e. who have offered that particular Groqit-holder their
individual barcodes to swipe. Click here to learn more.
Can a Groqit verify my suppliers' barcodes and barcodes I print?
You can use your Groqit to verify barcodes on items you receive as well
as checking printed barcodes for readability. Since the barcode is displayed
when read, you can compare the numbers printed under the barcode with
the actual barcode. This is one of the unique features of the Groqit, as
nothing else in the price range has a display. It also performs the standard
checksum on the code, which verifies that the printed code is correctly
formed.
Groqits in your warehouse
Groqits can be used in warehouse operations or any place standard consumer
barcodes are used. See the Example
here of how a Groqit was used
to reduce restocking time for returned shipments of DVDs from 16-20 hours
to under 5 hours.
Does Groqit read all barcodes?
The Groqit reads, displays and stores the most common retail barcodes:
the Universal
Product Code (UPC) and the European
Article Number (EAN).
Specifically, the Groqit reads all EAN and UPC codes,
including UPC-A, A+2, A+5 and UPC-E, EAN-13, +2, +5 and EAN8.
It also reads the Price Point UPC (PP-UPC), commonly used on paper-back
books. [This site can convertmost PP-UPC to the International
Standard Book Number (ISBN).]
If your inventory uses other barcode types or uses an in-house identification
system, a Groqit will not work for you.
International considerations:
The Groqit works on the two most common Global Trade Item Number formats:
GTIN-12 and GTIN-13. The former is most commonly referred to as the US/Canadian
UPC (universal price code); the latter is also known as the EAN (European
Article Number). These codes use the same font and most countries use the
EAN form. Other barcodes using the GTIN-13 format are JAN, the 13-digit ISBN, ISSN and
Bookland codes.
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