SoftBo Companion · iPhone and Android

The phones in your team’s pockets are the scanners you were quoted for.

It pairs to a hub with a code on the hub’s screen, takes the aisles you send it, and gives them back counted. There is nothing to set up on the phone and nothing to sign in to. It is free, and five come with a hub licence.

Pairs to a hub with a code on the hub’s screen. Free, and five come with a hub licence.

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A4·03Aisle A

Counted here

212

Tinned tomatoes 400g+3

Passata 690gok

Chopped tomatoes−2

Bay locked by this phone

Four things that decide whether a count with six people works.

Each phone sees only its own zone

Nobody is told twice where to start, and nobody counts somebody else’s shelf.

A bay locks the moment somebody opens it

And unlocks when it is done. Two people cannot count the same shelf into the same number.

When the Wi-Fi drops, the phones carry for each other

A phone out of range of the hub passes its work through one that is in range. All iPhones, or all Android — the two platforms’ own radios do not speak to each other, so a mixed team forms two groups rather than one.

The camera is the scanner, and a real scanner still works

A paired ring or gun scanner types into the same field the camera fills.

It stops being a scanner the moment the count is over.

Twenty-one screens, and the website has described four of them. The rest is what the same phone does on an ordinary Tuesday.

Twenty-one screens, and the site has described four of them. Here is the rest.

Look anything up

The whole catalogue, searchable, with an item’s detail behind it.

Pick an order

The pick comes to the phone, and the phone knows the walk order.

Read a delivery note with the camera

Photograph it, and the lines are matched against your catalogue before anything is saved.

Print a label

From the phone, off the same catalogue the count runs against.

See what is in a bay

Locations, and what each one is holding, without walking back to the hub.

Carry a task

Jobs assigned from the hub, and work requests raised from the floor.

Find a contact

Customers and suppliers, in the aisle rather than on the office machine.

Check stock and history

What is on hand, and what moved it.

Say what went wrong

A diagnostics screen and an error log, so a support answer is not a guessing game.

The person holding the phone may not read English. Ten languages say so.

The person holding the phone may not read English.

German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian and English — the application, not this website. It is the same ten in all three products.

Ten languages, the same ten in all three products — the application, not this website.

Free, and five of them come with a hub.

The app costs nothing and always will. A hub licence includes five phones counting at the same time; a sixth is €5 a month, five more are €20, ten are €35 — rented from your account and cancelled whenever you like. A shop that takes six extra for a January count and drops them in February is using it exactly as intended.

Free. Five come with a hub licence; more are €5 a month each, cancelled whenever you like.

What the seats cost

Your team is already carrying the hardware.

Install it, point it at the code on the hub screen, and it is counting. Once per phone, ever.

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