Inventory counts are how you reconcile what Rundoo thinks is on your shelves with what's actually there — pick a scope, walk the aisles, enter counts, review the variance, then commit. Committing adjusts on-hand inventory and writes a journal entry.
Rundoo supports two methods of inventory count: a Full count for end-of-year / end-of-quarter store-wide walks, and a Cycle count for narrower scopes — one aisle, one vendor, one department — that you run on a regular cadence without zeroing out the rest of the catalog. Pick the scope when you start a new count (Step 1 below). You can run counts from the web POS or continue them in the aisle on the Rundoo POS mobile app.
In the POS mode, open the Counts left tab — every count you've ever run lives here.
The top-tab strip — In progress, Completed, Voided — splits counts by where they are in the lifecycle. Completed is the running history of every reconciled count, each one listed with {Location} — {Name} and the timestamp it was committed.
To start a fresh count, flip to the In progress tab and click Start new inventory count in the top-right. That opens the New inventory count modal where you pick the location, give the count a name, and — this is the important decision — choose the scope.
⚠️ Scope by category or by specific products to avoid the "count the whole store" trap. A
Fullcount that nobody finishes is worse than no count at all.
Full vs CycleThe two scope buttons behave differently:
| Scope | What it counts | When to use |
|---|---|---|
Full |
Every active product at the location. Rundoo prefills the expected on-hand for all of them, and any product you don't touch is counted as 0. |
End-of-year / end-of-quarter reconciliation where you're walking every shelf. |
Cycle |
Only the products you add to the count. You choose them up front with Add products and only those rows get reconciled. | Regular short cycle counts — one aisle, one vendor, one fineline, one department — where you want to leave the rest of the catalog untouched. |
The caption under the scope buttons spells out the Full gotcha: "Count all products; uncounted products will be counted as 0." If you pick Full and miss a product, Rundoo will zero it out on commit. For anything other than a planned full-store walk, Cycle is almost always the right call.
Click Create to drop into the count.
The count detail page has two top tabs: To count (products you haven't counted yet) and Counted (products you've already entered a number for). The tab counts update live — Counted (2) / To count (40) tells you at a glance how far along you are.
Three ways to enter a count on the To count tab:
COUNTED column. The stepper arrows work too, but typing is faster for anything but small numbers. Tabbing between rows moves the focus down.To count tab fills COUNTED with 1 and increments with each subsequent scan. The Rundoo POS App on a phone makes this the natural way to count — the page banner links to it at the bottom.