Emailed purchase orders entered for review
Customer orders are read, matched to customers and products, and staged in Cin7 Core for a person to confirm.
Cin7 Core integration consulting
Connect Cin7 Core to the rest of your business.
Cin7 Core, formerly DEAR Inventory, runs stock, purchasing, sales and light manufacturing for many growing product companies. We build the connections and tools around it, so wholesale orders, supplier paperwork and warehouse updates reach Cin7 Core without being retyped.
Keep it, then extend it
What Cin7 Core does well, and where teams outgrow it.
Where Cin7 Core shines
- Stock, buying and selling in one place
- Many sales channels
- Your team controls access
Where teams hit the limits
- Wholesale orders arrive by emailLarger customers still send purchase orders as PDFs and spreadsheets, and someone keys each line.
- The warehouse runs elsewhereA 3PL or a separate warehouse tool ships the orders, and tracking and stock counts drift between them.
- Reports outside the systemMargin by customer, slow stock and supplier lead times usually mean exports and a spreadsheet.
What changes
The same week, with the connection.
Today
- The wholesale coordinator types buyers' emailed POs into Cin7 Core between calls.
- The inventory manager copies tracking and stock counts from the 3PL portal every afternoon.
- The buyer guesses reorder quantities from last month's spreadsheet.
With the connection
- Emailed orders are staged in Cin7 Core for review. The coordinator confirms and releases them.
- Shipments, tracking and counts come back from the 3PL. The inventory manager checks the mismatches.
- Sales, stock and lead times combine into a buy list. The buyer approves or edits it.
What we build around it
Connecting Cin7 Core to the rest of your work.
3PL and warehouse in step
Orders go to your 3PL, and shipments, tracking and stock counts come back without anyone copying them.
Supplier confirmations checked
Order confirmations and invoices from suppliers are read and compared to the purchase order, with changes flagged.
Reorder suggestions people trust
Sales, stock on hand and lead times combined into a buy list for your purchasing team to approve.
Accounting kept clean
Invoices, credits and payments checked between Cin7 Core and your accounting system, with mismatches listed.
Reports across channels
Sales, margin and stock figures from every channel in one scheduled report.
How it starts
What happens after you reach out.
You work directly with a senior builder from the first call to launch, not a hand-off to a junior team. How we work
Before we start
What we need from you.
- Someone on your team with admin rights sets up our access. We walk them through it.
- You choose what the connection can see and change, and you can switch it off at any time.
- We build and test on sample data before touching live records.
Technical details for your IT team
An admin in Cin7 Core opens Integration, API and adds a new application with a name. Cin7 Core shows your Account ID and an application key, which together let the connection sign in (see Cin7's guide). Each connection gets its own application, so you can see what is connected and delete one to cut it off. Cin7 Core limits how many requests each application can make per minute, so we design around it. This page covers Cin7 Core; Cin7 Omni is a separate product with a different setup, so we confirm which one you run. Keeping the books in Xero or QuickBooks? See our Xero and QuickBooks pages.
FAQ
Common questions.
Do we have to replace Cin7 Core?
No. Cin7 Core stays your inventory and order system. We build around it and connect what it doesn't reach.
Doesn't Cin7 Core already connect to our other tools?
It has many built-in connections to stores, marketplaces and accounting, and you should use one if it fits. Custom work makes sense when a step spans several systems or needs judgment, like reading orders that arrive by email.
We run Cin7 Omni, not Core. Can you help?
Yes, but the setup is different. We check which product you run before we quote.
What access do you need from us?
An application your admin adds in Cin7 Core for this connection. You can delete it at any time.
Are you a certified Cin7 Core partner?
No. We're an independent integration consultant and development team. We build with Cin7 Core's official developer tools and approved access, using the access your team grants, and we work alongside your Cin7 Core admin or implementation partner rather than replacing them.
Sources
- Cin7 Core Help: Connecting to the Cin7 Core API
- Cin7 Core Developer Portal (API reference)
- Cin7 Core Help: API Status Codes (request limits)
- Cin7: Cin7 Core product overview
Facts checked against the vendor's own documentation, November 2026. Names are trademarks of their owners. Inkwell is independent and not affiliated with these companies.
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