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The Ordovee Guide

Guides for parts inventory, teardown, and warehouse operations.

Written by the people who built ODV — and run their own shop on it.

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Two matching labels for the same part side by side on a worn workbench, each reading SKU ALT-12-100, Alternator 12V 100A: one carries a QR code, the other a barcode, and both fit their label with room to spare. Behind them, a used alternator sits in a blue plastic parts tote beside a rugged handheld scanner.
Featured guideHardware6 min

QR code or barcode?

QR code or barcode? It is a small choice that follows every part around the warehouse for years. Here is why a QR code suits small part and location labels, when Code 128 is the right call — a short SKU, an older laser scanner, a partner's receiving system — and the decoder check that lets one scanner read everything you print.

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the Ordovee Models Hub dashboard, showing a catalog of 351 models and the parts attached to each
Catalog7 min

Build your own parts catalog — not the one you license

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The Ordovee Models Hub open on the 2019 Mac Pro (model A1991) with all 53 of its attached parts listed — SSD modules, CPU, case parts — the cross-reference read forward, from one source assembly to every part that fits it.
Catalog6 min

Parts compatibility cross-reference

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One blower motor listed on both eBay and Shopify, each showing one available, alongside the Ordovee inventory record holding a single count that drops both listings to zero when it sells.
eBay sync8 min

How to stop overselling on eBay and Shopify

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A Zebra TC-series handheld showing the Ordovee home screen, held in a parts warehouse aisle
WMS7 min

Scanner-first picking on the warehouse floor

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The Ordovee CSV import screen (Items, Create, CSV file tab) — supported columns, a downloadable template, a drag-and-drop upload area, and Preview and Run import buttons.
Setup4 min

CSV import in Ordovee — bringing your data in safely

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One SKU, ALT-0089, everywhere it is read: on a shelf label with its location code B-12-04, on a roll of printed part labels beside a handheld barcode scanner, on the part's record in Ordovee on a laptop — alternator, MPN, brand, condition, location, quantity — and on the same part's eBay listing on a phone, with a notebook checklist: shelf label, catalog item, eBay listing, pick list.
Catalog6 min

SKU strategy — why your SKUs matter, and how Ordovee uses them

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The Ordovee Inventory Activity ledger — a transaction history table with date, action (ADD or ADJUST), SKU, location, quantity, and user columns, drawn from the permanent inventory ledger.
Ledger8 min

How ledger-based inventory works in Ordovee

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A gloved hand holding a Zebra handheld in a warehouse aisle, its DataWedge Basic Data Formatting screen showing Send ENTER key switched on, beside a seven-step setup sequence and a three-panel example of a scanned SKU auto-submitting the pick form.
WMS5 min

Setting up Zebra scanners with DataWedge for Ordovee

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The Apps dashboard in Ordovee — eBay and Shopify connections, sync health, listing coverage, push-queue counts, and a recent-activity log.
Marketplace4 min

How Ordovee keeps eBay and Shopify inventory in sync

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The eBay connection page in Ordovee — Status Active, Auto-push On, both eBay authorizations complete, and the last sync's result shown below.
Marketplace4 min

Connect eBay to Ordovee — the full sync setup

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The Shopify connection page in Ordovee — Status Active, Auto-push On, the Shopify Admin API connected, and the last sync's result shown below.
Marketplace5 min

Connect Shopify to Ordovee — the full sync setup

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Ordovee's Items view showing part P-5614 — a Whirlpool Duet drain pump assembly — with its compatibility panel (fits Whirlpool Duet 2014-2020, 27 compatible models) and inventory history, beside a Zebra handheld scanning the same part and the disassembled washing machine it came from.
Catalog5 min

Designed for disassembly — from whole unit to sold parts

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The Ordovee Inventory hub — stat cards for locations, SKUs in stock, and transactions today, stock lookup and stock-change panels, and Cycle Count and Activity Audit cards side by side.
WMS7 min

Physical inventory vs. cycle count, without the shutdown

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The Ordovee Cycle Count page — a progress bar showing how far the count sheets have reached, a Generate PDF control with a locations-per-report selector, and guidance on the sequential count workflow.
WMS5 min

Cycle counting in Ordovee — cover the whole warehouse

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The Ordovee Activity Audit page (High-Turn Inventory Check) — a Generate PDF control that pulls the SKUs with the most recent inventory activity, with an explanation of what the report covers.
WMS4 min

Usage-based cycle counting — spot-check your fast movers

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Following the records in Ordovee — a five-step diagnostic (Who, What, When, Why, Result) beside an order's detail page showing its full history of nine events, from 'Order created' through 'Shipped', each with its actor.
Audit6 min

Diagnosing a picking error with Ordovee's audit trail

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Ordovee's audit trail in three layers — Who (the change log: user, timestamp, and fields changed), What (the inventory ledger of every stock movement), and Why (activity records of what the system did) — beside the live Inventory Activity screen.
Audit7 min

The audit trail in Ordovee — who changed what, when, why

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A 2013 Mac Pro fully torn down — cylinder case, logic boards, RAM modules, SSD, fans, and housing laid out in an organized grid
Setup4 min

How Ordovee works — from whole unit to sold part

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eBay sync5 min

Import new eBay listings into Ordovee on demand

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A parts bench laid out with the hardware the guide describes: a laptop open to Ordovee's scan-to-pick screen (scan location, scan SKU, scan tote), a Zebra rugged handheld, an iPhone reading a QR code through its camera, a Zebra desktop thermal printer and a smaller DYMO printer each feeding out a label, a packing slip, and loose SKU, location and tote labels, with warehouse shelving stacked with engines and parts behind.
Hardware4 min

What scanner and printer to buy for a parts operation

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Ordovee's Locations view on a laptop showing location H-03-05-08 and the items stored there, beside a handheld scanner, a printed location label, and a clipboard inventory count.
Operations4 min

Warehouse organization, one shelf at a time

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The Ordovee Orders Hub queue — a list of Ready orders from eBay and Shopify with order, buyer, total, age, and status columns, and a status filter with quick actions on the right.
WMS6 min

Order fulfillment in Ordovee — from order to shipment

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A developer at a two-monitor desk in a parts warehouse, reading code that reserves inventory beside a panel labelled "AI Review (Development Tool)," under a whiteboard sketch of the order flow — import order, match SKU, reserve stock, pick, ship.
Operations6 min

Human ideas, AI efficiency — building Ordovee

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A stripped MacBook Pro on a shop bench with its pulled parts laid out beside it, next to a laptop showing an Ordovee part record listing the four MacBook Pro models that logic board fits, and an open notebook recording the same fitment by hand under the headings Came From and Fits In
Catalog8 min

Why don't used computer parts have an interchange?

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Three stacked layers labeled shared identity language, curated compatibility knowledge, and standards that let the data move, resting on a base reading demand from repairers, insurers, recyclers and marketplaces — the reason the whole stack can be funded. Beside them an alternator tagged with a Hollander interchange number, and a screen listing the vehicles that one part fits.
Catalog5 min

What automotive interchange actually solved

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Infographic titled Parts demand depends on fitment data. A pulled 15.6 inch laptop screen stands on a workbench between two listing cards. The left card, headed limited compatibility equals limited demand, names one Dell Latitude E5470 at 89.99 dollars and reads one model reached. The right card, headed complete compatibility equals full demand, shows the same part at the same price with six verified Dell Latitude and Precision models and reads six models reached. Below, one red figure among seven grey ones contrasts with seven green figures. Four panels summarise more compatibility more paths, inventory has a clock, changes what is worth pulling, and documented fitment increases marketability.
Operations7 min

Parts demand depends on fitment data

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Infographic titled A shared parts interchange for every trade, subtitled the ten requirements that make fits a record, not a guess. Ten numbered tiles run across the top: durable identity for the source assembly, durable identity for the part, typed relationships, provenance and confidence, conditions and pairing limits, capture during teardown, open exchange format, corrections and versions, a reason to contribute, and marketplace support. Below them a workbench holds an opened front-load washer drum, a salvaged appliance control board, and a laptop showing a part record for control board ELX 136405900. The record lists the donor washer's manufacturer, model, region, hardware revision and serial range, and a typed relationships panel rating five kinds of fit — observed source, specification match, functional test, conditional fit, and substitute or supersession — each marked high or medium confidence, alongside provenance and pairing-limit panels. Shelf bins behind are labelled washers, HVAC, ag equipment, outboards, compressors and laptops. A barcode scanner, an alternator, printed part tags and a teardown capture checklist sit on the bench beside a note reading fits is not one claim, type it, prove it, record it.
Catalog6 min

What a parts interchange would take outside auto salvage

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A Zebra TC-series handheld held in a parts warehouse aisle, showing Ordovee's Location Inventory screen for location F-2-05 with seven items, beside the scanned F-2-05 QR label on the shelf beam
WMS6 min

DataWedge in the browser: fix scans in a web app

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Infographic headed Will any barcode scanner work with web inventory, with the answer that a scanner which types like a keyboard works with web inventory. A gloved hand holds a Zebra rugged handheld running Ordovee: the SKU ALT-1234 has landed in the Scan or enter SKU field above a Submit button, and the item details below read Alternator 12V 120A, location A-02-03, on hand 8. On the bench sit a printed barcode label for the same SKU and a parts tote labelled A-02-03, with warehouse racking behind. Three points are listed: keyboard mode, scans type straight into any field; test in 30 seconds; add Enter so each scan submits and moves you forward.
Hardware6 min

Will any barcode scanner work with web inventory?

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Three Zebra rugged handhelds standing on a warehouse workbench, labelled TC21, TC52 and TC57 left to right, each showing an Android home screen with Chrome and the Play Store. Beside them a roll of QR labels, a shipping box with a barcode label reading Inventory Works Better with the Right Tools, a corded barcode scanner, and a notepad checklist reading Buy, Setup, Scan, Get to work.
Hardware6 min

Buying a used Zebra handheld for inventory operations

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A dark desktop thermal printer on a wooden workbench feeding out 2 by 1 inch labels: a location label reading A-02-03 and a part label reading ALT-1234 M6 Hex Bolt Zinc Plated, each with a barcode and a QR code. Beside it sit a printed 4 by 6 inch packing slip for the same part, a roll of blank labels, loose hex bolts, a corded barcode scanner, and a rack of green parts bins labelled A-02-01 through B-01-02 with matching QR location labels.
Hardware6 min

Thermal printer setup for part and location labels

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Five barcode label sizes on a workbench, each captioned: a 1 by 0.5 inch label on a bag of small parts, a 2 by 1 inch part label on an alternator bracket, a 3 by 1 inch location label on a shelf rail, a 4 by 2 inch label on a parts box, and a 4 by 6 inch packing slip on a larger box, every label carrying a QR code. In front sit three label rolls marked paper (direct thermal), polypropylene and polyester, and a thermal printer feeds out a part label; a parts bin with a location label sits on the racking behind.
Hardware5 min

Barcode label sizes and materials for a parts shop

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A parts warehouse mid-organization. On the right, a single steel rack carries printed location labels A1, A2 and A3 with barcodes; its bays hold sorted parts in clear bins and labelled boxes, and the A2 shelf sits empty and ready. The rest of the room behind it is still unlabelled — shelves of loose laptop shells, drives and boards, open cardboard boxes, and a workbench stacked with parts waiting to be sorted.
Operations7 min

How to organize warehouse inventory one shelf at a time

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A washing machine open on a workbench with its drum and motor exposed, its pulled parts laid out beside it wearing printed labels — a drain pump held in one person's hands, a control board, a wiring harness — next to a handwritten parts list on a clipboard, a handheld barcode scanner, and a laptop showing a new part record for the drain pump against its source assembly, a Whirlpool washer, with a condition, a location code and a Save and Print Label button; racks of labelled parts bins from A1-01-1 to A1-03-2 stand behind the bench.
Operations9 min

What to ask a parts-inventory vendor to demonstrate before you buy

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