We’ve continued rolling out improvements across Inventory Ally this month focused on making setup easier, strengthening integrations, and improving the accuracy of your ordering and inventory data.

🚀 New Features & Enhancements

🔐 Single Sign-On (SSO) Now Available for Inventory Alliance Community

Users can now access the Inventory Alliance Community with a simplified Single Sign-On experience.

This means:

• Fewer separate logins to manage
• Faster access to training materials and onboarding resources
• A smoother experience moving between Inventory Ally and Inventory Analysis

🤖 Coming Soon: Smarter Auto-Merge Suggestions for Duplicate Items

We are preparing rollout of enhanced Auto-Merge functionality designed to help reduce duplicate and overlapping inventory items faster and more accurately.

This upcoming enhancement will:

• Identify likely duplicate products more intelligently
• Pull in additional medication details such as ingredients and concentrations
• Help make item cleanup significantly faster while still keeping your team in control

More updates to come as this feature becomes available.

🔌 Integration Improvements

📊 Improved VetSuccess Reporting Sync Reliability

We’ve enhanced the way Inventory Ally sends data to VetSuccess (PIMS data partner) to provide:

• More stable data transfers
• Faster processing for larger hospitals
• Better long-term sync reliability

No action is required from current VetSuccess-connected users.

🔗 Improved ezyVet Connection Stability

We’ve released behind-the-scenes improvements to strengthen Inventory Ally’s connection with ezyVet.

This helps ensure:

• More dependable data syncing
• Fewer authentication mismatches
• Cleaner hospital-to-account mapping accuracy

🩺 New IntraVet Integration Available via SyncVet

Inventory Ally now supports IntraVet connection through our SyncVet integration partner.

This expands integration availability for hospitals using IntraVet and allows more practices to bring PIMs sales data into Inventory Ally daily.

🛠 Accuracy & Performance Improvements

📦 More Accurate Transaction Matching = Stronger Ordering Recommendations

We released several improvements to strengthen transaction loading and product matching behind the scenes.

These updates help:

• Resolve missing transactions caused by product naming inconsistencies
• Reduce occasional duplicate transaction imports
• Improve transaction filtering across certain vendor feeds

Result:

• Cleaner usage history
• More accurate demand forecasting
• Stronger ordering recommendations

💊 Better Product Detail Recognition Across Integrations

We’ve improved how product codes and item details populate across several connected systems, helping reduce mismatches and improve item recognition.

This creates:

• Cleaner item records
• Fewer manual corrections
• Better visibility into product history

🧹 Smarter Merge Suggestions

We are in the testing phase of a new feature: Merge Suggestions! This will allow redundant products to be surfaced to users and recommended for merging.

Enhancements include:

• Better protection against products that should not be merged
• Improved flexibility in merge logic
• More precise duplicate item cleanup suggestions

This means faster and safer item organization for your inventory list.

🐞 Bug Fixes & Stability Updates

This month also included multiple behind-the-scenes fixes to improve day-to-day platform consistency, including:

• Improved loading behavior for PIMS transaction pages
• Improved alternative item search reliability
• Reduced integration authorization errors
• Additional backend speed and performance optimizations

These updates are aimed at making Inventory Ally more dependable during everyday use.

👀 More Coming Soon

Our product team is actively continuing work on:

• expanded Auto-Merge rollout,
• continued Inventory Alliance improvements,
• deeper integration enhancements,
• and additional workflow simplification features.

Stay tuned for more in the upcoming weeks!

These updates reflect ongoing refinements to make Inventory Ally even more predictable, accurate and easy to use as your hospital operates day-to-day. While a few changes are visible, most improvements are behind the scenes—focused on strengthening data integrity, streamlining workflows, and supporting confident, consistent ordering.

🔌 Integrations

Cornerstone Direct Integration (Beta)

Inventory Ally now supports a direct integration with Cornerstone, designed to enhance data accuracy and reduce manual steps. This integration is currently available to select hospitals as part of a controlled beta rollout.

Patterson E-Commerce Improvements (Beta)

Targeted enhancements to further strengthen connection stability and ordering behavior for hospitals using Patterson e-commerce. This integration is currently available to select hospitals as part of a controlled beta rollout.

✨ Product Enhancements

Additional Insights for Margin and Markups

You can now easily toggle between Profit Margin, Markup, and Markup % when reviewing PIMS mappings—making it simpler to align Inventory Ally with how your hospital evaluates financial performance.

Bulk Preferred Vendor Updates (Beta)

Set a preferred vendor for multiple items at once directly from Inventory Settings, reducing repetitive setup and saving time. This feature is currently available to select hospitals as part of a controlled beta rollout.

Want List Sorted by Date

Want List items are now displayed in the order they were added, helping teams review, prioritize, and act on requests more efficiently.

🛠️ System Refinements

Improved Inventory Calculations

Enhancements to how merged item data is handled ensure continued accuracy across depletion dates, usage, and cost calculations. Sales totals shown in PIMS mapping now consistently reflect full item history.

More Resilient VetCove Uploads

Additional safeguards improve upload handling during onboarding and prevent duplicate processing, ensuring cleaner data from the start.

Smoother Merging & Counting

Refinements to merge behavior and filtered views improve usability during counting and list cleanup, reducing interruptions during routine workflows.

Performance & Stability Enhancements

• Faster item detail loading
• Improved background processing
• More reliable vendor data syncing

✅ What This Means for Your Hospital

Clean, reliable data you can continue to trust

Fewer interruptions to daily ordering

Less manual cleanup over time

Greater confidence in recommendations and reporting

If you have questions or want help understanding how these updates fit into your workflow, your Inventory Ally team is here to support you.

🚀 New Improvements & Enhancements

Smarter, clearer inventory management

• Rounded UOM estimates: Recommendations now match the unit of measure you use (capsules, tablets, each, etc.) for easier at-a-glance decisions.
• Enhanced item search: Search is now more tolerant of spelling and formatting variations.
• Duplicate prevention: Integration request submissions are limited to one per hospital per day.

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Stability Updates

Ordering & Integrations

• Improved consistency and load behavior for MWI carts.
• Increased reliability of the uncounted-item filter during counting and order finalization.
• Covetrus connections now auto-retry during brief outages.
• Updated handling of Covetrus cart IDs to prevent submission failures.

User Management

• User deletion now functions correctly in all cases, including when users are referenced in historical uploads.
• Added explicit messaging when attempting to create an already-existing user.
• Updated permissions so restricted roles no longer see the Add New Room action.

Counting & Recommendations

• On-hand quantities now display correctly on the Review Order page without requiring page-by-page scrolling.
• Corrected discrepancies between estimated usage values and recommended order quantities.
• Changing the primary item within a merged group no longer alters the group’s frequency or ordering week.

No more scribbles. No more back-and-forth.

Now you can count, approve, and add to your Want List—right from your phone. Whether you’re on the floor, in the pharmacy, or walking the shelves, Inventory Ally moves with you.

What you can do on mobile:

• ✅ Log in and select your hospital
• 📦 Approve or update estimated quantities
• 🔍 Search and count any item
• ➕ Add products to your Want List

🎥 Watch our quick walkthrough to see just how easy it is.

Bulk Order Tool Now Integrated into Item-Specific Settings!

To streamline your workflow and make bulk ordering more intuitive, the Bulk Order Tool has moved from its standalone page to the item-specific settings panel.

This update allows you to:

• Review product usage at a glance: See average monthly usage, estimated stock levels, and your hospital's specific consumption patterns.
• Update To-Order quantities directly: Take advantage of sales or promotions while minimizing the risk of overstocking.

What is the Bulk Order Tool? The Bulk Order Tool is your go-to feature for maximizing savings during promotions or sales events. It helps you calculate the right quantity to order based on your clinic's consumption patterns and current stock levels.

Click here to learn how to access and utilizing for your ordering.

Join us for an engaging and informative webinar series tailored specifically for veterinary professionals looking to optimize their inventory management practices.

Session: Reorder Points & Demand Forecasting Pt 2: Navigating Holiday Exceptions & Mastering Safety Stock

When: Nov 12th at 1 pm ET / 12 pm CT / 10 am PT

Hosted by Nicole Clausen, CSSGB, CCFP, CVBL - Co-Founder of Inventory Ally, and Sophia Byczkowsky, RVT and Director of Customer Success, this series will delve into essential topics and demonstrate how Inventory Ally can streamline your processes and enhance your efficiency.

👉 Register Here 👈

We know that every practice has its own way of keeping track of needed items—whether it’s on paper, a whiteboard, or an online form.

We’re excited to introduce a new addition to your inventory management toolkit, the Want List.

📋❤️📝

With our new Want List feature, you can now effortlessly manage all the items you need, from medications to paper towels, all in one place.

Click here to learn more. 👈

Join us for an engaging and informative webinar series tailored specifically for veterinary professionals looking to optimize their inventory management practices.

Session: Reorder Points & Demand Forecasting Pt 1

When: October 1st at 1 pm ET / 12 pm CT / 10 am PT

Hosted by Nicole Clausen, CSSGB, CCFP, CVBL - Co-Founder of Inventory Ally, and Sophia Byczkowsky, RVT and Director of Customer Success, this series will delve into essential topics and demonstrate how Inventory Ally can streamline your processes and enhance your efficiency.

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We're thrilled to announce a series of improvements designed to enhance your experience and streamline your workflows 🙌

Improvements

• UOM Conversion: Apply UOM conversion for counts and estimates, excluding red items for accurate calculations.
• Enhanced Onboarding Visibility: Improved visibility of next steps in the Vetcove guide with a clear green outline.
• Onboarding Fix: Resolved the logout button conflict with the next button for a smoother onboarding experience.
• Upload Progress Visibility: When uploading a flat file, the sidebar will now stay open to show upload progress until the hospital name is available.
• Shopping Cart Link: Added a convenient shopping cart link in the finalize view.
• Vetcove Integration Control: New function on the integrations page to deactivate Vetcove integration directly.
• Order Adjustment Ease: Adjust the edit to-order pop-up to default to the current order amount, with auto-focus in the override input.
• Seamless Integration Selection: Auto-select the hospital if there is only one associated with the account on the integrations page.
• Merge Counts Efficiently: When merging counts, the counts will be removed from the secondary and added to the primary for clarity.
• Onboarding Questions: Display two onboarding questions for new (invited) users, with responses saved to Intercom for better personalization.

Bugfixes

• Partial Count Approval: Partially counted items (not all rooms) will not appear on the uncounted list and now allow finalization.
• Item Expansion: Items with multiple rooms will expand correctly even if not on the first page of the results.
• Digitail Authentication: Hotfix applied for Digitail authentication issues.
• System Fixes: Applied fixes for Digitail and Shepherd integration issues.

Advancements Under the Hood

• UOMs Population: We are now populating UOMs, setting the stage for future automation.

Thank you for being a part of our innovation journey. Dive into these updates and experience the difference!

At Inventory Ally, we are constantly working to enhance your experience. Here are the latest improvements:

New Onboarding: Streamlined registration and upload user interface for a smoother start.

Automated Rooms Assignment: Easily manage inventory by department with automated room assignments.

Merge Dialog Enhancement: Default primary to newest item when merging, with warnings if not applicable.

Custom UOM Removal: Removed custom units of measurement from the My Account page.

Counting Screen Improvement: User-entered values for counted items no longer recalculated when changing UOMs.

Pagination with Infinite Scroll: Enhanced access to long item lists for improved navigation.

Bug Fixes:

• Order PDF now displays count instead of EQoH.
• Resolved issue causing ghost count increases when unassigning rooms.
• Items unassigned from rooms now correctly appear in the "Not in any room" list.
• Fixed incorrect EQoH details in Item Details sidebar.
• Hospital Admins can now connect additional data sources.

Stay tuned for more updates, and share your ideas for new features!