Getting Started with Skumo

What is Skumo?

Skumo is a Shopify app built for independent retailers to take control of their stock. It connects directly to your Shopify store and gives you the tools to manage purchase orders, track supplier orders, run special customer orders, and perform stock counts — all in one place.

Rather than tracking orders in spreadsheets or relying on guesswork, Skumo uses your real sales data to suggest what to reorder and when, so you spend less time on admin and more time running your shop.

What Skumo Covers

• Purchase Orders — Create and send orders to your suppliers, track what's on its way, and receive stock directly into your Shopify inventory when it arrives.
• Suppliers — Keep all your supplier details in one place, link them to the brands and vendors you stock, and set preferences that make ordering faster.
• Special Orders — Manage individual customer orders for items you don't normally carry or that are out of stock, and track them through to collection.
• Stock Counts — Count your physical stock and push corrections straight to Shopify inventory, with full or cycle count options.

After Installing

Once you've installed Skumo from the Shopify App Store, you'll land on the dashboard. Before you start creating orders, it's worth taking a few minutes to set up your suppliers — Skumo works best when your suppliers are linked to the Shopify vendors they supply.

Recommended first steps:

1. Go to Suppliers and create your first supplier, or import one from your Shopify vendors.
2. Open Settings and check the Label Printing tab to confirm your label size matches the labels you use.
3. If you send purchase order emails to suppliers, go to Settings → Purchase Orders → Email to set your store name and customise the default subject and body. Emails are sent automatically via Resend — no email account setup is required.

Single-Location and Multi-Location Stores

Most of Skumo works the same whether you have one location or several. Where things differ, this documentation calls it out clearly.

Multi-location stores: If your Shopify store has more than one active location, Skumo will show a location picker when creating a Purchase Order, display separate tabs on the Purchase Order list for each location, and give you additional options in Settings to control stock analysis and supplier defaults per location.

If you only have one location, you won't see any location-related options — Skumo handles that automatically in the background.

Inventory Tracking

Skumo works with Shopify's inventory system. For stock adjustments (incoming stock when a Purchase Order is sent, received stock when it arrives) to be applied automatically, the relevant products must have inventory tracking enabled in Shopify.

If a product is not tracked in Shopify, Skumo will still include it in your Purchase Orders and records, but it won't be able to adjust the stock levels for that item. You'll see a warning when this is the case.