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.

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Industry

HealthcareEcommerce

End users

Customer SupportMarketing and Sales

Components

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.