Getting started
Goods & Spaces
The two simple building blocks behind everything in GoodsCount.
Prefer to watch? Here's a quick two-minute tour.
What is a Space?
A Space is a location that holds your goods — like a warehouse, a shelf, or a room. You group your goods by warehouse, shelf, room, or any other location that makes sense for you.
- Decaf coffeeGood
- Kraft paperGood
- Paper filtersGood
Another location — Spaces and Goods work exactly the same way here.
What is a Good?
A Good is any item you track — its quantity, value, photos, and more.
Quantity
How many you have, in the units you use.
Value
The price or worth of the item.
Photos
Pictures so anyone on your team can recognize it.
Barcode
Scan to find it in an instant.
Organizing with nesting
Spaces can sit inside other Spaces — just like folders inside folders. So a Warehouse can hold a Roasting Room, which holds Shelf A, which holds your goods. Organize as shallow or as deep as your business actually is.
The trail at the top — Warehouse › Roasting Room › Shelf A — always shows where you are, and one click takes you back up.
What's here vs. everything inside
When you open a Space, you'll see what's directly here, plus the total of everything nested inside it — all the way down. So a Warehouse can show zero items directly, but still roll up everything on every shelf inside it. That answers the real question — "what's in this whole section?" — at a glance.
In plain words
"Here" = sitting in this exact Space. "Total" = this Space plus every Space tucked inside it.Try it yourself
That's the whole idea: Spaces are your places, Goods are your things, and they nest as deep as you need.
Create your first Space →