Product lookup tool

Inventory can quickly get out of control if you’re selling or distributing a wide array of products. Customer support teams need a simple, reliable way to look up a product and answer questions about price, availability, shipping times, and more.

With Retool, you can build an app that can search through your entire inventory and displays details about a selected product. We’re taking the example below from a medical supply company, but the same use case can be applied for all types of industries that need to keep close track of product inventory.

Industry

Healthcare•Ecommerce•

End users

Customer Support•Marketing and Sales•

Components

Table

Button

Text

Text Input

Components

Build from a handful of drag-and-drop components

Table display products and context about products in a table.

Text Input query your database and filter inventory results based on the text entered into a search input component.

Text label the different sections of your app to provide a clear end-user experience.

Button use button components for all sorts of actions, like updating inventory or export results.

Container display detailed information about a selected product in a container.

Data source

In order for products to be added to your inventory or to update information on existing products, you’ll need to connect and write to a data source. Common data stores used for inventory include databases like MySQL, PostegreSQL, and MongoDB.

1. Create resource

2. Read data

3. Connect data with UI

Related use cases

What you can build with Retool

Shipment processing dashboard

A central dashboard to manage your shipping list, labels, and status of shipped items.

Inventory management dashboard

Build an app to see what's in stock, add SKUs, track the status of orders.

Medication fulfillment dashboard

Medication management and scheduling application for healthcare companies.

Virtual healthcare dashboard

Build a multi-functional healthcare management application that allows staff to manage scheduling and medical practitioners and patients to communicate with each other.

Product generator

Build a frontend that makes it easy for your team to add new products to your inventory while including contextual metadata like product images, weight, dimensions, category, title, and description.

From startups to Fortune 500s, the world's most effective teams use Retool to build custom business software. Our customers

David Boskovitz

Software Engineer at Envoy

As an engineer, I love Retool. My team now builds much-needed tools for customer support instantly. Also love how it's so hackable - there's little we can't do.

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