Simple Inventory Management for Small Business Owners
You do not need a $50,000 ERP to know what stock you have. Loribase gives you real-time inventory tracking, purchasing management, and production cost calculation, set up in hours and affordable from day one.
Inventory for Small Business
When spreadsheets stop being enough
Every growing business starts with a spreadsheet. It works, until it does not. The moment you have more than one person touching inventory, more than one product category, or more than a handful of suppliers, the spreadsheet starts breaking down.
Quantities go out of sync. Formulas reference the wrong cells after a copy-paste. Two people update the file at the same time and one save overwrites the other. The "stock" column shows 150 units, but the physical count shows 120. And no one knows if the 120 is the right number or the 150.
You look at enterprise ERP options and the quotes start at tens of thousands of dollars, with implementation timelines measured in months. Your accountant suggests the big-name inventory software that requires two days of onboarding training. You are caught between tools that are too simple and tools that are too complex.
Loribase was built for this exact moment. Real inventory management (event-driven, accurate, auditable) without the enterprise complexity or price tag.
Benefits
What small businesses get with Loribase
Loribase gives small and mid-size businesses the same inventory capabilities that enterprise manufacturers use, without the implementation cost, without the training overhead, and without the monthly fees that scale out of reach.
Set up in hours, not months
No implementation project. No consultant. No six-week onboarding. Create your items, add your opening stock, and you are ready. Most Loribase customers are operational on day one.
Real-time stock, always accurate
Every purchase receipt, production run, and stock adjustment is recorded as an event. Your current stock quantity is always derived from the complete event history, never a number someone typed in last week.
Know the real cost of what you make
Loribase calculates production costs using actual purchase prices (FIFO), not estimates or averages. Know exactly what each batch cost to produce before you price it for sale.
Purchasing that matches reality
Create purchase orders, receive goods partially, and reconcile invoices, all tracked as separate events. No more "expected vs. received" spreadsheet columns managed manually.
Audit trail from day one
Every stock movement is recorded permanently. Know who changed what and when. If a discrepancy appears during a physical count, you can trace exactly what happened, not just see the number is wrong.
14-day free trial
Try Loribase free for 14 days. A payment method is required to activate the trial — billing only starts after the trial ends. No implementation project, no onboarding calls.
Differentiation
How Loribase is different from other small business inventory tools
Events, not overwrites
Most inventory tools let you edit the stock quantity directly. Loribase only allows you to record events: receipts, consumptions, transfers, adjustments. This makes the system permanently accurate and auditable.
Built for manufacturing
Most small business inventory tools are designed for retail: buy product, sell product. Loribase is designed for businesses that make things: receive raw materials, run production, track what was consumed and what was produced.
Cost accuracy without an accountant
Loribase does not assume an average cost for your inventory. It tracks the exact price paid for each purchase lot and uses FIFO to assign costs to production, giving you accurate cost of goods without manual accounting work.
Scales with you
Start on the Starter plan and grow. As your team grows, your product catalog expands, or your locations multiply, Loribase grows with you. You do not need to re-implement or migrate to a new system when you grow.
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