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AI tracks every item from intake to sale or redemption. At intake, the system captures photos from multiple angles, runs vision models to identify brand, model, and condition, pulls comparable sale data from eBay and Facebook Marketplace, and suggests a buy price and resale price in seconds. Each item gets a unique tag with serial number, photos, condition notes, and intake date attached. Real-time counts mean you catch shrink the day it happens instead of once a year at inventory count, and the discrepancy alert points your manager to the specific case, shelf, or backroom bin where the count broke. The system also flags slow-moving stock — anything sitting on the shelf longer than your target turn window — and surfaces it for repricing or a marketplace push. By the time a year-end audit rolls around, you already know exactly what you have and what it is worth.

Yes. The system lists your inventory across eBay, Facebook Marketplace, your own website, and other channels from a single dashboard. When an item sells on any channel or in-store, it automatically delists everywhere else within seconds — no double-sells, no embarrassing refund calls. Listings are generated from the AI-tagged intake data, so you skip the manual photo-and-description work that kills most pawn shops on volume. The pricing engine watches comparable listings and adjusts your prices on a schedule. For high-value items, the system can route inquiries from each channel into one queue so your team responds to all buyers without bouncing between apps. One inventory, one source of truth, every channel.

The system tracks hold periods per jurisdiction, generates daily police reports in the format your local department requires, maintains ATF-compliant firearm logs (see below for the firearms-specific workflow), and stores customer ID verification with timestamped photos. Alerts fire before deadlines, not after — you see a 24-hour hold expiring tomorrow on a dashboard, not a violation notice three months later. Audit trails are maintained automatically for every intake, redemption, sale, and customer interaction, so when a regulator or detective walks in asking for records on a specific item or person, you produce them in minutes instead of hours of paper digging. The system is built to the specific state and local rules where your stores operate, not a generic compliance template that gets you 80% of the way and leaves the other 20% to fines.

Firearms are their own workflow. At intake, the system captures the make, model, caliber, serial number, and a photo, runs the serial against stolen-firearm databases, generates the ATF Form 4473 fields from the customer ID scan, and creates the bound-book entry the moment the item enters your shop. Every disposition — sale, redemption, transfer — automatically posts to the bound book with the buyer information, date, and disposition type. For transfers across state lines or to FFL dealers, the system flags the destination FFL number and produces the shipping paperwork. If ATF audits you, the bound book is searchable, exportable, and timestamped — you produce a clean record in minutes. The same workflow handles state-specific firearms registries (CA, NY, NJ, MA each have their own quirks), so multi-state operators get the right form in the right format without their staff memorizing five rulebooks.

It calculates interest automatically based on your rates and local regulations, tracks redemption deadlines, sends SMS payment reminders to customers, and flags items approaching forfeiture. Your staff focuses on the customer, not the math. Loan extensions get logged automatically with the new deadline; partial payments adjust the remaining balance in real time. When a customer walks in to redeem, the system pulls up their ticket and shows the exact amount owed, interest accrued, and any extensions, all in one screen.

Fast. A basic inventory and compliance system can be up and running within weeks of kickoff — typically 4-6. Multi-channel selling integration adds another 2-3 weeks depending on which marketplaces you want to connect. We migrate your existing inventory data as part of the setup, so you are live in weeks, not quarters.