As the smallest and lightest inventory system in existence, the portability and intelligence of the Groqit make it the ideal solution for many businesses.
A Groqit (grock'et) is pocket-dwelling device that reads and remembers barcode information. It can hold hundreds of thousands of barcodes and related information and do lookups in seconds.
Groqit can help many business that use standard retail barcodes for inventory tracking. (See full details here, along with international barcode information.)
Groqit can help you check to see what's in stock, check in items in your incoming shipments, or 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.