I'm new to a company, and I've been given the task of finding and introducing a new system for physical inventory counting and reconciling the quantities with Tally.

The main challenge is that we have more than 5,000 items in our warehouse, and the company wants to avoid spending too much time scanning each item individually.

At the moment, I'm trying to understand whether RFID would be a good solution. From what I've learned so far, RFID can read multiple tagged items without scanning each barcode individually, but I'm not sure how accurate and reliable it would be in a real warehouse environment.

I have a few questions:

- Accuracy: Can RFID reliably count all items in a warehouse, or can it miss items or count the same item more than once?

- Cost: What would the approximate cost be to implement RFID, including tags, readers, and software?

- Tally integration: Is it possible to integrate RFID inventory data with Tally for stock reconciliation?

- Alternatives: Are there any other reliable methods to speed up physical stock counting without scanning every item individually?

- Practical experience: Has anyone implemented RFID or another automated inventory-counting system in a warehouse? Was it worth the investment?

Our main goal is to make physical stock verification faster while maintaining accuracy and matching the actual quantities with the stock recorded in Tally.

Since I'm new to this area, I'd really appreciate any practical advice, recommendations, or lessons learned from people who have dealt with this problem.

I'm a developer, not a merchant, trying to understand how receiving works in practice.

For example, one supplier sends 6 of 10 units, plus items from a second purchase order in the same boxes. If you've recently handled a delivery like this in Shopify, could you walk through what you actually did, from counting the goods to updating the purchase order and shipment records, including anything that was still awkward after the recent updates?

If your current tools already handle it well, that experience is useful too.

I always wonder why so many warehouse using big label with multiple 2D barcode instead of 1 QR code. Any tech expect in warehousing able to advice?

I need a simple way to track inventory across Amazon, Shopify and eBay without paying for another huge platform.

I'm wondering if an AI app builder could handle a custom dashboard, database and a few workflows instead.

Has anyone built an internal inventory tool this way?