See real stock instead of last month’s stock
Quote a customer without walking to the shelf. The item leaves stock in the same moment the sale is raised, so the figure on screen doesn’t wait for a stocktake to catch up.
Core Platform Core WMS
Core Platform module
LiveKnow what is on the shelf without a stocktake, with Core WMS.
Stock that moves the books when it moves off the shelf, for a South African business selling physical product. Products, movements and orders sit on the same ledger as the invoice. Start free and load a real stock file before you decide.
What it does
What Core WMS does
Keep the cost of sale honest
Know the margin on a job rather than estimating it. A stock movement posts to the ledger as it happens, so gross margin comes off the books.
Follow a product through the movements that touched it
Chase a variance instead of arguing about it. Every receipt, sale and adjustment is a movement against the product record, so there’s a trail to walk back.
Fulfil the order in the system that took it
Ship without re-typing anything. Orders sit next to the products they draw down, so the sale, the stock and the invoice are one record rather than three.
One ledger
Stock and the books move together, or they drift.
A stock system and a set of books kept apart agree only for as long as somebody keeps typing into both of them. Core removes the typing.
- Core Invoice raises the sale, and the item leaves the shelf in the same movement.
- The stock movement posts to the ledger in Core Accounting as it happens.
- Core Purchases keeps suppliers, bills and what you owe on the same ledger the stock sits on.
- The stock figure and the trial balance read one ledger, so there’s nothing to reconcile between them.
Straight answer
Who Core WMS is for
Switch it on if
- A business selling physical product that’s reconciling a stock spreadsheet against its accounting.
- A team where the person selling and the person counting are different people.
- A business whose accounting plan puts inventory a tier or two above what it pays today.
Leave it alone if
- You are a service business with nothing to count. Core Invoice and Core Accounting cover you without this.
- You are running a multi-site warehouse on scanning hardware. This release covers products, movements and orders on one ledger, so ask us before you assume it fits.
- You bill in foreign currency. Core is rand only today.
What it costs
Flat monthly pricing, in rand.
No per-seat charge and no invoice limit on any tier. A bundle always costs less than buying the same modules separately.
Core WMS is included in the Operations and Full suite plans.
The current price of each is in the pricing section on the Core Platform page, along with what every plan carries. If you want a straight answer on which one fits, ask us and we’ll tell you.
Moving over
Moving over from a spreadsheet, or from Sage
Most businesses this size run stock in a spreadsheet next to an accounting package, which works right up to the point the two stop agreeing. On Sage, inventory sits on the Standard tier rather than the entry one, so a small business often postpones it and keeps the spreadsheet. In Core, the stock and the books are the same system, so there’s no reconciliation between them to do. Import your product list and opening quantities, then count against Core before you rely on it.
We went through the alternatives properly, feature by feature, including where each still beats us: Core against Sage and Core against Zoho Books.
Questions
Common questions
Yes. The item leaves the shelf in the same movement that raises the sale, rather than at the next stocktake.
Straight to the ledger in Core Accounting as the movement happens, so gross margin comes off the books rather than off an estimate.
Yes, from a CSV. Load your products and opening quantities, then count against Core before you switch off what you have today.
Stock movements post to a ledger either way. Core Accounting is where you read the result, so most businesses running stock switch both on together.
Try it on your own numbers.
Open an account, load a month of real data and run Core WMS against what you do now. No card, and nothing to cancel.
Start free→ See what we have shippedReal South African businesses, most of them still running on what we built for them.
See our work→ Run your business on CoreInvoicing from R 99 a month, with the books, stock and payroll in the same place when you need them.
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