Case study · POS + Inventory
Wholesale mobile POS with IMEI-based stock identification.
A Point-of-Sale and inventory management system for a wholesale mobile-phone retailer. IMEI-based inventory lets the business identify and manage individual devices across stores and stock locations — designed for stock identification and management only, not real-time device location tracking.
- Client
- Confidential (NDA)
- Industry
- Wholesale · Mobile retail
- Year
- 2024
- Service
- Web apps & systems
- Stack
- LaravelMySQLVueReceipt printingMulti-store
The problem
Stock counted by hand. IMEIs in a notebook.
A wholesale mobile-phone retailer needed POS plus stock control that worked at the grain of an individual device — not just SKUs. IMEIs were being tracked manually, which made transfers between stores, returns, and warranty lookups slow and error-prone.
What we built
POS + multi-store IMEI inventory.
- POS for invoicing, returns, and refunds with thermal-printer support.
- IMEI-level inventory: scan-in on receipt, scan-out on sale, transferable between stores.
- Multi-store stock visibility and inter-store transfer workflow.
- Warranty / returns lookup by IMEI.
- Role-based access for cashiers, store managers, and central admin.
- Operational reports: stock-on-hand by store / model / IMEI status, sales by period.
What this is NOT
Stock identification — not device location tracking.
To be clear: the IMEI functionality is for stock identification and management purposes only. The system does not track the real-time location of devices once they leave the store. We built it that way deliberately — the business need was inventory accuracy, not surveillance.
Outcome
Stock-out reduced. Transfers + warranty in seconds.
The retailer now reconciles inventory continuously instead of monthly, transfers stock between stores in under a minute, and looks up any device’s sale and warranty history by scanning a single IMEI.