Set Up Inventory Alerts

These guides cover talech Register and related POS equipment. Paytura is your merchant services partner; talech provides the register software and device support referenced in these articles.

Tracking inventory and setting alerts help ensure product availability and customer satisfaction by automatically notifying staff of low or out-of-stock items and preventing overselling.

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How this feature will help

Set low inventory threshold for your products

Set alert time and recipients

Real-time inventory visibility options

Enable low inventory/out of stock warnings in the Register app

How this feature will help

Inventory tracking and alerts allow you to:

• Receive email notifications when the quantity of an item is low or out of stock.
• Notifications in the Register app when adding an out-of-stock item to an order.
• Show low inventory or out-of-stock alerts automatically, or hide unavailable products from your online store. This helps prevent customers from adding items that aren’t available to their cart and lets you limit purchases to the amount you have in stock.

Low stock and out of stock banners on the online menu

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Set low inventory threshold for products    

Next, set alert thresholds on the products you want to be notified about.

1. Go to Items > Products. 
2. Locate the item/product you wish to enable the low inventory threshold for and select it. 
3. Scroll down to the Inventory section.  
4. Select the toggle for Track Inventory to turn it on.  
5. Select the Unit of measure.
6. Enter the amount of inventory you currently have for that product in the Inventory field.  
7. Select the Set Inventory Alerts button.  

8. Select the toggle for Set low inventory alert for “[product name]”.
9. In the Alert Quantity field, enter the number that inventory will trigger an alert for if it falls below.
10. Indicate the quantity of product you want to automatically create a purchase order for when there is a low inventory alert in the Reorder Quantity field. You must have a supplier for this product to utilize this automatic purchase order creation.   
11. Select Apply to save your changes.  

The Purchase Reader Quantity is optional and is only used when creating purchase orders within talech. In order to use this feature, you must have a supplier set up for the product to create a purchase order.  

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Set alert time and recipients

To receive email notifications of low/out of stock inventory, indicate the time and recipients you want to receive the notifications.  

1. Log in to talech.com with your admin credentials.
2. Go to Items > Low Inventory Notifications.
3. Select a time when the notifications will be sent each day using the time dropdown.

4. Select which employees should receive the notifications from the Add a recipient field. You can add more than one if needed.

5. Click Save when finished.

At the specified time, an email alert will be sent to the recipients you selected of any inventory that is lower than your threshold.

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Real‑time inventory visibility options

Enable the out-of-stock and low-stock settings to show inventory notices or hide unavailable items on your online store.

1. Log in talech.com with your admin credentials.
2. Navigate to Website > Online Ordering.
3.  Scroll down to the Out of Stock and Low Stock Settings.
4. Enable any of the following options you want to use on your website: 

• Limit customer purchase based on available stock: Customers will not be able to purchase products with no inventory or will be prevented from purchasing more than the quantity in stock.
• Show a “Low Stock” label for products with low inventory: Displays a “low stock” label on the product on your online store when inventory value reaches the Alert Quantity threshold set in the product details (see section above for more details).  
• Hide out-of-stock items on website: If enabled, customers will not be able to see items that are out-of-stock.

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Enable low inventory/out of stock warnings in the Register app

To notify staff when adding an out of stock item to an order on your point-of-sale, enable the warnings in Register.

1. Sign in to talech Register as an admin and go to Dashboard > Back Office > Settings.  
2. Under General Settings, swipe down to the Order category.  
3. Toggle on Low Inventory Warning.   

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Still have questions? Or want to learn more?   Schedule a call with our talech Onboarding Post Go Live Services group. Let us help you make the most of this feature to benefit your business!    Click here to schedule a call: https://go.oncehub.com/talechpostlivehelp.

Need more help?

• talech training & device support (24/7): 1-888-995-1998
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