Web Inventory Management and iPhone

Inventory Management runs on iPhone and iPad through the browser rather than as a separate App Store app. You open the web app in Safari or Chrome, sign in with the same account and add it to your home screen. Scanning uses the camera of the device.

Camera Access for Barcode Scanning

Safari users need to grant webcam permissions for barcode scanning to work. Go to Settings > Safari > Camera and allow access.

Install as App on Home Screen

For the best experience we recommend using Google Chrome or Firefox. You can install Inventory Management as an app on your home screen:

Navigate to the website and log in. Press the share button:

Select "Add to Home Screen":

The app icon will appear on your home screen for quick access:

What the web app can do

Inventory Management on iPhone and iPad is the full web application, not a cut-down version. Registering inbound and outbound goods, moving stock between locations, viewing inventory, managing locations and products, counting, and the analytics screens all work the same as they do on Android. The data is the same data: an iPhone added to your company account sees the stock your colleagues booked seconds ago on a handheld scanner, and anything registered on the iPhone is immediately visible to them.

Which browser to use

Any modern browser works, but Google Chrome and Firefox give the smoothest result on Apple devices, particularly for barcode scanning through the camera. Safari works too, provided you grant camera access in the iOS settings as described above. Because the app runs in the browser, it updates itself: there is no app version to keep in step across devices, and a new release is live the next time the page loads.

Why a web app instead of an App Store download

The same code runs in Safari as in Chrome on Android, which means an iPhone user and a colleague on a scanner see the same screens and the same stock without waiting for two separate release cycles. It also means updates arrive the moment you reload, with no App Store review in between. The practical trade-off is that you open it from your home screen rather than from the App Store, and that offline use depends on the browser cache rather than on an installed binary.

What is different on an iPhone

Two things are worth knowing before you standardise on iPhones. Scanning uses the camera through the browser, which needs permission the first time and works less well in a dimly lit aisle than a dedicated scanner does. And iOS is stricter than Android about keeping a web app alive in the background, so a long pause can mean the app reloads when you come back to it rather than resuming exactly where you were. For counting a shelf or receiving a delivery neither gets in the way.

Last updated July 29, 2026