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Stop Running Out of Stock: Python Inventory Tracking That Emails You Automatically

DEV Community·Brad·20 days ago
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If you've ever had a customer ask for a product you thought you had in stock—only to discover you're completely out—you know the pain. I run a small e-commerce operation, and for the first two years I tracked inventory in a spreadsheet. I'd forget to check it, run out of things I didn't realize I was running out of, and lose sales. Then I spent an afternoon writing this Python script. Now I get an email every morning showing me what's low, and another alert the moment anything hits my reorder threshold. Zero stockouts in the last 8 months. The Script import smtplib import csv from email.mime.text import MIMEText from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from datetime import datetime # Configure these EMAIL_FROM = " your-email@gmail.com " EMAIL_TO = " your-email@gmail.com " EMAIL_PASSWORD = " your-app-password " REORDER_THRESHOLD = 5 # Alert when quantity drops below this def load_inventory ( filename = " inventory.csv " ): """ Load inventory from CSV file.…

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