Trigger, not tap
A physical trigger and a real scan engine. Over a shift of thousands of scans, the difference is hours.
Hardware
Rugged scanners, sized to the job.
Stocktakes Online runs on Zebra Android mobile computers. We supply them, stage them and support them — so the device that arrives is already configured for your site and ready to count.
Why not a phone
A consumer phone in a warehouse is a broken phone.
Not because it is fragile — though it is — but because a camera is not a scan engine. A phone reads a barcode in about a second, in good light, held still. A Zebra scan engine reads it instantly, at an angle, in a dim aisle, off a creased label, hundreds of times an hour, with a trigger the operator can find without looking.
SPEED
DROPS
Built to be dropped
Rated for repeated drops onto concrete and for dust and water. Warehouses do not hand devices back undamaged.
SHIFT
Batteries you can swap
A flat battery mid-count is a stopped count. Zebra batteries come out and get replaced in seconds.
FLEET
Managed properly
Staged, locked down and updated as a fleet, so twenty devices behave identically and nobody installs anything on them.
The range
One of these covers almost every stocktake.
All of them run Android and all of them run Stocktakes Online. The choice is about the building, the shift and the operator — not the software. Click any of them for the detail.
Zebra TC22
Retail back rooms · light warehouse · periodic counts
- Pocketable, closer to a phone in size and weight
- The most affordable way into a proper scan engine
- Good for shops, stockrooms and smaller sites
- Comfortable for staff who also serve customers
Best when counts are periodic rather than constant.
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Zebra MC3400 Series
Warehouse stocktaking · racking · high scan volume
- Gun grip and a keypad — usable with gloves, without looking
- Built for hours of continuous scanning
- Reads labels high on racking without a ladder
- The device Stocktakes Online was developed and proven on
If you are counting a warehouse, start here.
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Zebra MC9400 Series
Cold storage · harsh sites · long-range scanning
- Zebra's toughest warehouse computer
- Freezer-capable variants for cold-chain sites
- Long-range scanning for high racking and yard work
- Built for the sites that destroy other hardware
For freezers, heavy industry and racking you cannot reach.
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Or buy none of them
Annual counts · one-off counts · trying it first
- Six scanners for hire — $110 per scanner per day, or $440 per scanner for four days up to seven
- Two charging cradles and six spare batteries included, staged for your site before they arrive — and one spare access point on request
- Count with them, send them back — nothing in a cupboard for a year
- Six is the whole fleet, so dates are worth booking early
If you count once a year, this is usually the right answer.
What hiring involves →
Already have Zebras? You may not need any of these. Check whether the ones you own will run it — it turns on the Android version, nothing else.
What we do with them
Staged before they reach you.
Configured for your site
Wifi, scanner profile and the app installed and pointed at your portal. Out of the box, an operator signs in and counts.
Identified properly
Each device is staged so it reports its real serial number with every count. On the portal you see the last four digits, matching the label on the unit in somebody's hand.
Supported by people who answer
Hardware, software and labels from one supplier. When something goes wrong at 6am on stocktake day, there is one number to ring.
Not sure which one?
Tell us the environment: aisle widths, whether it is a freezer, how far the operator walks, how many hours a shift. The right device follows from that — and we would rather send one that fits than the most expensive one.