Managing Bulk & Units

Many retail and distribution businesses buy in bulk — crates, cartons, bags — and sell in smaller units. The challenge is tracking inventory accurately when your purchase unit and your selling unit are different. Manual conversion leads to counting errors, missing stock, and margin leakage.

With Ovaloop, you define your product in both its purchase unit and its selling unit at setup. A crate of eggs becomes 30 individual eggs. A bag of rice splits into kilogram portions. Each sale deducts the correct fraction of your bulk inventory automatically, with no manual arithmetic.

The unit price you set for individual sales should always account for the bulk purchase cost plus your target margin. Ovaloop's profit reporting tracks this automatically — so you can see at a glance whether your bulk-to-unit pricing is working or needs adjustment.