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Featurev3.29.0
NFC Tag Scanning: Tap Instead of Scan on Android
You can now scan NFC tags directly in Nstock's mobile app on Android — tap NFC Tap wherever you scan and hold a tag to your phone to pull up the matching item instantly, no camera or typing needed. On Asset Inventory, encode a blank NFC tag with any asset's own smart link right from its lookup screen; tapping that tag afterward opens the asset on any phone, including iPhone, since Nstock writes a standard URL tag that iPhones open automatically on tap. The Asset Inventory scan and audit screens on desktop now note that USB barcode scanners and keyboard-wedge RFID readers work out of the box, typing scanned codes straight into the field. Asset Inventory NFC scanning and tag encoding are available on the Business plan.
Asset Inventory: Track Your Equipment, Separate From Your Product Stock
You can now track your company's fixed assets in Nstock — forklifts, racking, computers, and office equipment — completely separate from your product inventory, so equipment tracking never touches your lots, BOMs, or COGS. Every asset gets a unique tag and optional barcode, plus a status (In Use, In Storage, Under Repair, Retired, or Liquidated), location, assigned owner, and purchase/current value. Scan a barcode to look up an asset and update it on the spot, or start a walk-the-floor audit that tracks scanned assets live and flags anything active that never got found. Scanning a code Nstock doesn't recognize prompts a quick add right there, so new equipment gets registered without ever leaving the audit. Available on the Business plan.
Custom Blends: Store White-Label Formulas Separately From Your House Recipes
You can now store custom, per-customer formulas in Nstock — separate from your standard house recipes — for white-label, private-label, and custom-blend work. Duplicate any existing formula in one click to create a customer's custom version as a starting point, instead of building it from scratch. A new wholesale customer registry keeps every private-label account organized in one place. Orders and quotes can now be tagged by channel — retail, wholesale, or custom — with sensible defaults per sales source, so you can filter your order and quote lists by channel and see exactly which formulas and customers belong to your white-label business at a glance.
Multi-Step Products: Build a Finished Good in Stages With One Production Order
You can now define a finished good in Nstock as a multi-step product — one bill of materials that lays out every production stage, from first intermediate mix to final packaged item, each stage with its own ingredient list. Send a single order to production and record progress stage by stage on a visual step tracker, including partial runs that accumulate until a stage is complete. Stages can stock their output as real inventory — so a base or sub-assembly shared across several finished goods is banked and reusable — or pass straight through to the next stage as work in progress. You can also choose to produce only up to a middle stage when that intermediate component is all you need, and costs roll up through every stage into the finished item's true cost.
Review, Edit, and Hand-Pick CSV Rows Before Import
Every CSV import in Nstock — stock, master products, BOMs, suppliers, boxes, and orders — now ends with a full review step before anything is saved. Each valid row appears pre-checked in a review table: uncheck any row to leave it out of the import, or open a row to edit its fields (quantities, lot numbers, supplier names, and more) right there, without fixing the spreadsheet and re-uploading. The import button shows exactly how many rows you've selected, and the confirmation reports what was imported and what you skipped. Column order in your CSV has never mattered — headers are matched by name — and now row-level control means one odd line never holds up the other two hundred.
You can now connect ShipStation to Nstock. Paste in the API Key and Secret from ShipStation's own settings — Nstock verifies the pair before saving, and only ever shows the last 4 characters. Syncing pulls your recent ShipStation shipments into Nstock and matches each one to its order by order number, whether that order came from Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, or manual entry. Matched orders get the carrier and tracking number recorded and are marked Fulfilled automatically, so nobody re-keys tracking numbers after a shipping run. Available on Business plans and via the integrations add-on on Starter and Pro.
Nstock's Amazon integration is rolling out, connecting to Amazon Seller Central via Login with Amazon — no API keys to paste. FBM (merchant-fulfilled) orders sync as Nstock orders and can deduct finished goods from inventory on fulfillment, the same way Shopify or WooCommerce orders do. FBA (Amazon-fulfilled) orders can import for sales and COGS reporting, so cross-channel margin stays visible without Nstock ever touching inventory that's already shipped to Amazon. Every imported order uses Nstock's existing FIFO/BOM-based costing engine. The integration is arriving on Business plans, and as part of the integrations add-on on Starter and Pro.
You can now attach every document type a material lot needs directly to that lot in Nstock, instead of a single CoA link. Typed document slots cover Certificate of Analysis (CoA), Safety Data Sheet (SDS), Certificate of Conformance (CoC), Technical Data Sheet (TDS), Allergen Statement, Country of Origin Certificate, Nutritional Panel, Test Report, REACH/RoHS Compliance, and certifications like Kosher, Halal, Organic, Non-GMO, Fair Trade, and Vegan, plus an 'Other' slot with a custom label for anything else. Upload a file or paste a link for each one. Every document travels with its lot from receiving through production, staying attached even into a waste or end-of-life record, so the full paper trail is always one click away.
Every purchase order in Nstock now has a live, animated shipment tracker, so you can see exactly where an inbound delivery is without leaving the PO. Orders that arrive as multiple boxes get a separate progress bar per shipment, moving through Label Created, Carrier Accepted, In Transit, Out for Delivery, and Delivered, with a clear exception state for delays. Expand any shipment to see every carrier checkpoint with location and time, plus the carrier's estimated delivery date. Add a tracking number and carrier to a PO in seconds, then refresh on demand or let it update automatically when the PO is opened. USPS tracking is live now, with more carriers on the way.
Nstock added a Purchase Spend report to the Finance section. Pick any date range and see total material spend, shipping costs, and order counts at a glance, split between received and still-pending purchase orders, with breakdowns by supplier and by material category down to individual lots. Completed purchase orders are now kept as a permanent purchase history, so spend analysis covers everything you've ever ordered — not just what's currently open.
Account admins can now close their Nstock account directly from Settings, no support ticket needed. Closing cancels the subscription immediately, and account data is retained for 180 days before deletion — so if you change your mind, reopening the account within that window restores everything exactly as you left it.
Nstock added six free calculators at nstock.pro/tools: safety stock, EOQ (economic order quantity), COGM (cost of goods manufactured), overhead rate, inventory turnover — calculated separately for raw materials, WIP, and finished goods instead of one blended number — and capacity utilization. Each tool shows the underlying formula, takes your own numbers with no signup required, and gives an instant answer. They're built for manufacturers who want to run the math for their own operation before deciding whether to bring it into a system like Nstock.
Nstock added a lightweight supplier vetting pipeline for evaluating a new supplier before committing to them — an optional RFI (Request for Information), RFP (Request for Proposal), and RFQ (Request for Quote) stage that can be filled in at any point, not in a fixed order. The RFQ stage lets you compare a prospective supplier's itemized pricing directly against your existing catalog materials, so you can see whether switching or adding a supplier actually saves money before you commit. Each stage is fully optional, so teams can use as much or as little of the process as a given supplier decision warrants.
Nstock moved billing to self-serve: you can now view your current plan, switch tiers, and manage optional add-ons directly from account settings instead of going through support. Subscription changes take effect through Nstock's live billing system, so upgrades, downgrades, and add-on changes are reflected in your account without a manual back-and-forth. This is aimed at growing manufacturers who want to adjust their plan as their team or feature needs change, without waiting on a support ticket to do it.
Clearer Product Classification: Raw Material, Component, or Finished Good
Nstock replaced its old free-text category field with an explicit production-stage selection — every product is now classified as a raw material, a component, or a finished good. That classification now drives what shows up where: BOM builders correctly filter to valid raw-material and component options for a recipe, and finished-good dropdowns only show items that are actually sellable end products. The result is fewer mis-classified items showing up in the wrong place across BOMs, inventory views, and reports.
Nstock now connects to QuickBooks Online via OAuth sign-in. Once connected, you map your Chart of Accounts — Inventory Asset, COGS, Inventory Adjustment, and Sales Income — and can turn on monthly inventory journal-entry posting and order-to-invoice sync. Both sync options are optional and stay off by default until your Chart of Accounts mapping is complete, so nothing posts to your books unexpectedly. It's built for manufacturers who want their inventory value and order activity reflected in QuickBooks without manual journal entries every month.
Nstock added a WooCommerce integration alongside its existing Shopify sync, for manufacturers selling through a WordPress store. Connecting takes a REST API key generated in WooCommerce — no OAuth flow required — and turns on automatic order sync, inventory deduction on fulfillment (using FEFO, first-expired-first-out, for lot-tracked items), refund restocking, and historical order import. It gives WooCommerce sellers the same real-time link between storefront orders and warehouse inventory that Shopify merchants already have in Nstock.
Four New Finance Reports, Plus Brand and Warehouse Breakdowns
Nstock added four new finance reports: inventory turnover, inventory aging, WIP (work-in-progress) valuation, and open purchase commitments. Alongside them, existing inventory valuation and monthly inventory reports gained the ability to break finished-goods value down by Master Product brand and to scope results to a single warehouse. Together they give finance and operations teams a clearer read on where inventory value sits — by age, by stage of production, by brand, and by location — without exporting data to a spreadsheet to build the view manually.
