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How Ordovee works — from whole unit to sold part

Whole units come in. Parts come off. Each one needs to be identified, connected to what it fits, put somewhere you can find it, listed for sale, and eventually picked and shipped. Ordovee is parts inventory software built around that lifecycle.

The catalog runs alongside the warehouse, so the part on the shelf is connected to the model it came from, the other models it fits, its inventory history, and the orders that eventually move it back out the door.

The workflow is simple: Identify → Disassembly → Catalog → Track → Sell. Each stage below is part of the same system.

4 min · Published 2026-04-27
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Identify

Know what came in — and whether you have seen it before.

Ordovee catalog model lookup — searching to identify a unit that came in
Look up a unit to identify it — a known model brings its parts and fitments with it.

Start with the unit in front of you

Look up what just arrived before the first part comes off.

If you have torn that model down before, Ordovee brings back what you already know about it: the parts and compatibility relationships you recorded last time.

If the model is new, you build that record as you work.

The first teardown teaches the system. The next one starts with that work already done.

See how parts and models are connected
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Disassembly

As one unit becomes many parts, they're kept from becoming a pile.

Ordovee teardowns hub — the parts list for the model being broken down
The teardowns hub — one unit on the bench becoming many parts, each with a place to go.

A method, not a pile

Breaking something apart is easy.

Keeping track of everything that comes off it is where the operation gets difficult.

Ordovee gives the teardown a repeatable structure. Parts are identified, linked to the model, located, and prepared for sale as the work happens instead of becoming a pile that someone has to sort out later.

That is Structured Disassembly Management: treating disassembly as an operating process rather than the messy step before inventory.

Give each part somewhere to go

As parts come off a unit, they can be connected to the model in bulk and moved into inventory.

A finished teardown should leave you with useful parts in known locations and a better catalog than you had when you started.

Not a bench full of loose pieces waiting for another project.

See why teardown needs its own system
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Catalog

Know what every part is — and what it fits.

An Ordovee model record showing its parts and what they fit
A model record — every part you stock for it, and what each one fits.

Build the knowledge your shelves depend on

The physical part is only half the asset.

The other half is knowing what it is and what else it fits.

Ordovee lets you open a model and see the parts connected to it, or open a part and see every model you have recorded it fitting.

That knowledge grows from your own work.

Each teardown adds another set of relationships. Each compatibility link makes the next matching part easier to identify and sell.

Over time, the catalog becomes something specific to your operation: the cross-references, model relationships, condition information, and other fields that matter to the parts you actually handle.

See how to build a parts catalog that compounds

Bring the records you already have

You do not have to rebuild an existing catalog by hand.

Import your current data by CSV, preview problems before anything commits, fix what needs fixing, and run the import when it is clean.

And if you ever need the data back out, you can export it.

Import without the risk
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Track

Know where every part is, and how many you have.

Ordovee inventory activity — the permanent ledger of every stock movement
The inventory ledger — every movement recorded, attributed, and preserved as history.

Know what you have — and how it got there

Inventory is not just a quantity.

Ordovee records each add, removal, transfer, and adjustment as an inventory movement instead of repeatedly overwriting one number.

That means the current count stays easy to use, but the history behind it is still there.

If a shelf says six and the system says eight, you can walk backward through the movements and see where the unexplained part of the story begins.

See how ledger-based inventory works

Every change leaves a record

Inventory movements have their own ledger. Record edits have change history. Imports, syncs, and automated work leave activity records.

So when something looks wrong, you are not reconstructing the week from memory.

You can see what changed, when it changed, and whether the action came from a person, an import, or the system.

Trace any change back

Keep physical counts tied to the same history

Cycle counts correct inventory through the same movement history instead of quietly replacing the old number.

The correction becomes part of the record along with the reason it was made.

Keep your counts honest
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Sell

Every part finds its buyer.

Ordovee marketplace hub keeping eBay and Shopify in sync with inventory
The marketplace hub — eBay and Shopify kept in step with your shelves.

Keep the shelves behind your listings

Ordovee connects inventory with eBay and Shopify so the quantity offered for sale follows the quantity available in your operation.

You still create and manage listings in the marketplaces.

Ordovee handles the inventory underneath them.

When stock changes, updated quantities can be pushed back to the connected channels, reducing the chance that the same available unit is sold twice.

See how channel inventory stays in sync

One path from order to shipment

Orders from connected channels come into the same operating workflow.

Quantity can be reserved when an order claims it, reducing what remains available before someone reaches the shelf.

Then the order moves through picking, packing, and shipping.

Follow one order from arrival to shipment

Pick with the scanner in your hand

Picking is designed around the floor, not a keyboard at a desk.

The picker follows the order through location, part, and cart confirmation using a handheld scanner, phone camera, or rugged device such as a Zebra.

Confirmed inventory movements become part of the same history that runs through the rest of Ordovee.

Walk through a real picking session
Underneath the whole workflow

Two things support every stage without becoming extra jobs for the operator.

Automation handles the repetitive work

Ordovee handles the routine work between your operation and connected systems: importing orders, syncing listings, pushing quantities, and processing marketplace activity.

Most of that work should happen without someone babysitting it.

When you do need to know what happened, the activity history is there.

Your operation stays separated from everyone else's

Each business's data is kept private to its own account.

Traffic is encrypted in transit, stored data is encrypted at rest, and role-based access controls what different people on your team are allowed to do.

Where should I start?
  1. 1

    If the work begins with taking products apart, start with the process Ordovee was built around:

    See how structured teardown works
  2. 2

    If selling across eBay and Shopify is the immediate problem:

    See how channel inventory stays in sync
  3. 3

    If you want to understand what using Ordovee feels like on the warehouse floor:

    Walk through a picking session

Who Ordovee is for

Ordovee is designed for operations that work in parts rather than ordinary finished-goods retail. That includes businesses tearing down and managing parts from:

The particular machine changes. The operating problem does not.

Something comes apart. The useful pieces need identities. You need to know what they fit, where they are, how many you have, where they are being sold, and what happened when one leaves.

That is the work Ordovee is built to manage.

See the whole system.

Each deep dive stands on its own and can be read in any order. When a term is unfamiliar, the glossary explains the language used across Ordovee.