SWITCH FROM BLING
Bling to Calisto Inventory
Keep stock by location, variant and lot, count it by scan or by voice, cost it by the method each category uses, buy it from suppliers and receive it, and keep a register of the units the business owns or hires out.
Feature by feature
Calisto Inventory beside Bling
- 16 In both
- 3 Only in Bling
| 19 features | Calisto Inventory | Bling |
|---|---|---|
| Stock and Locations | ||
| Multiple Warehouses with Balances per WarehouseCalisto: stock is kept per location in a ledger, in decimal quantities, and an item's on hand is the sum of its locations.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Transfers Between WarehousesCalisto: a transfer takes its units off the source when it is sent and holds them in transit, offered nowhere, until each line is received; units still on the road when it is closed are booked as lost in transit.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Stock ReservationCalisto: available to sell is on hand minus held, with holds for a buyer's checkout, a wholesale order and a customer at another branch.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Batches and Expiry | ||
| Batch and Expiry ControlCalisto: batches carry their lot and expiry, sales draw the first-expiring lot first at the location that sold them, and expiring lots are announced.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Waste | ||
| Write-Off by LotCalisto: a batch can be written off, and the Waste Log records each write-off with its reason and the cost it posted.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Counts | ||
| Manual Stock CountCalisto: counts are blind, scan in any order, keep working offline, can be split into zones and scheduled, and are approved on the approval engine before stock moves.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Purchasing | ||
| Product Check-InCalisto: one receive form records the quantity received and refused with its reason, the lot, expiry, invoice price, freight, packing slip and carrier, in part or in full.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Purchase Orders Connected to StockCalisto: a purchase order is sent to the supplier by email from the business's connected mailbox, and its deliveries are received against it in part or in full.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Minimum Stock AlertsCalisto: each item has a reorder point, reorder quantity and maximum, each location can have its own par, and falling below either is announced.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Sales | ||
| Real-Time Stock UpdatesCalisto: every sale from a register, a kiosk, an online order or a delivery platform takes its stock off exactly once, in realtime or every 15 minutes, and a void puts it back (with Shop).Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Channels | ||
| Marketplace and E-commerce SyncCalisto: Sync pushes on-hand stock to each marketplace every 15 minutes and on demand, and Amazon FBA and Mercado Libre Full warehouses are stock locations of their own (with Sync).Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | ||
| Stock Movement ReportCalisto: Movements shows adjustments, transfers and depletions, with a Movement Report beside them.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Costs and Valuation | ||
| Financial View of StockCalisto: Valuation values the remaining cost layers by each category's method, per currency and never converted, with nightly snapshots.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Barcodes | ||
| Barcode Reader SupportCalisto: every printed code is one row in one register; a UPC-A, its EAN-13 and its GTIN-14 are one code, a case code counts its pack size, and GS1 in-store codes are generated for items with none.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Shipping | ||
| Order Picking and CheckoutCalisto: Pick Lists show each order line and the location filling it, and the line moves through picking and packing to labeled and shipped (with Orderflow).Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Label PrintingCalisto: parcel carriers, FedEx, UPS, DHL Express and USPS among them, connect in Orderflow, which gets rates, prints labels and tracks each shipment (with Orderflow).Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Gaps | ||
| ABC Curve ReportRank products in an ABC curve report.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Stock Updated from the InvoiceUpdate stock and costs from the electronic invoice (nota fiscal).Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Production OrdersConfirm the start of a product's manufacture and post its inputs and the finished product to stock automatically, tracked by status.Checked Oct 29, 2026Source | No | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Bling
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Bling and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Bling can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from Bling
Questions about switching
How do my items come over from Bling?
Items are set up in Stock ▸ Items, each with its variants, its unit and its printed codes; a UPC, EAN or GTIN is one code, and Scan to Link adds codes by walking the stockroom with a scanner. Recipes come in from a spreadsheet through the recipe import, each row made through the one recipe writer and answered for itself.
How do my stock levels come across?
Opening stock is entered at each location with its cost, which starts the item's cost layers, or it is counted in: start a count, scan in any order or count by voice, and approving the count sets the stock at each location.
Do my suppliers and purchase orders move over?
Suppliers are added in Procurement ▸ Suppliers. Open orders are raised again as purchase orders: kept as a draft or sent for approval, emailed to the supplier from the business's connected mailbox, and received in part or in full on one receive form with the lot, expiry, invoice price and freight.
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