Inventory Kits

Preload inventory into vehicles to deliver faster, serve customers farther away, and process more orders per shift.

Ice Cream Truck Model

Deliver Faster with Preloaded Vehicles

An inventory kit is a predefined set of products and quantities you assign to a delivery vehicle. This is often called the "ice cream truck model" because your drivers leave the facility fully stocked and fulfill orders directly from the vehicle.

Inventory physically moves out of the warehouse and into a kit. Kits act as a third inventory room that can move between your warehouse and any vehicle, keeping stock levels accurate everywhere.

Faster deliveries with pre-loaded inventory
Fewer warehouse picks per shift
Easier end-of-day transitions between shifts
Serve customers farther away without increasing delivery times
Inventory kits list showing kit names, assigned vehicles, drivers, package counts, and active status
Kit template builder showing product name, variant, and quantity fields with save button
Kit Templates

Set Up Any Vehicle in Minutes

Kit templates let you predefine common product sets and reuse them. Create a template once, then select it from a dropdown when building a new kit to instantly populate products and quantities.

Faster setup: Select a template and your kit is populated instantly.
Consistency: Every vehicle gets the same product mix, every time.
Less manual work: No need to add products one by one for each kit.
Fulfillment Logic

How Orders Pull From Inventory Kits

When your driver has an active inventory kit, assigned orders pull from the kit first. Kit inventory is always prioritized over warehouse stock.

Non-Hybrid Zones

Orders assigned to a driver with a kit will never be sent to the warehouse. If multiple drivers are in a zone and one has no kit, warehouse orders route to the driver without a kit.

Hybrid Zones

Drivers with kits can receive both kit-fulfilled orders and warehouse pickup orders. If a product is unavailable in the kit, the system routes warehouse orders accordingly.

1

Order comes in

Customer places an order in the delivery zone.

2

System checks kit

WebJoint checks if the assigned driver has a kit with the required products.

3

Kit fulfills order

If the kit has stock, the order pulls directly from the vehicle inventory.

4

Fallback to warehouse

If no kit or product unavailable, the order routes to warehouse pickup.

Physical Inventory Transfer

Inventory physically moves from the warehouse room into a kit. Even unassigned kits remove that inventory from warehouse availability, preventing double counting.

Shared Product UIDs

Products can exist in multiple kits at once and originate from the same UID. Each kit tracks its own quantities independently while maintaining traceability.

Persistent Kits

Kits are not rebuilt from scratch every shift. Inventory moves cleanly between warehouse and vehicle, making end-of-day transitions faster.

Inventory Movement

Track Every Unit from Shelf to Vehicle

WebJoint treats kits as a real inventory location, not a virtual reference. When you move products into a kit, they leave the warehouse count immediately.

This is different from platforms that rebuild kits every shift or use virtual references. With WebJoint, your warehouse and vehicle inventory are always in sync, and kit-to-warehouse transfers happen cleanly.

Mid-Shift Controls

Mid-Shift Adjustments and Tracking

Your kits are not locked once a shift starts. You have full control to adjust kit contents during an active shift.

Add new products: Introduce new items to a kit at any time during the shift.
Increase quantities: Top off popular items without closing the shift.
Decrease quantities: Pull products back when demand changes.
Remove items: Take products out of the kit entirely.

All changes are tracked with the user who made them and a timestamp, so you always know what was adjusted and when.

Kit detail view showing product list with par levels, quantities, reserved counts, and refill buttons
Audits can be required or optional based on your settings
Verify remaining inventory quantities and expected cash
Complete audits in the browser or through the inventory app
Assign each audit to an employee with an expiration date
Audits

Close Every Shift with Confidence

After a shift ends, inventory audits verify that what your driver returns matches what the system expects. Audits cover both product quantities and cash.

Your team can complete audits from a desktop browser or the WebJoint inventory app. Each audit is assigned to a specific employee and includes a deadline for completion.

Zone Integration

Inventory Kits and Delivery Zones

Your zone settings determine whether kits are required, optional, or combined with warehouse fulfillment. Hybrid zones give you flexible fulfillment models where drivers pull from both their kit and the warehouse.

The combination of zone configuration and driver assignment determines how every order gets routed and fulfilled. Set up your zones correctly and kits work exactly the way your operation needs.

Ready to see inventory kits in action?

Book a demo and we will walk you through setting up kits, templates, and zone-based fulfillment for your delivery operation.

FAQ

Inventory Kits Questions

Common questions about inventory kits, templates, order fulfillment, and the ice cream truck delivery model.

Deliver Faster with Inventory Kits

See how inventory kits help you preload vehicles, cut delivery times, and process more orders per shift with the ice cream truck model.