If your products have a best-by date or a lot number, plain Shopify inventory only tells you half the story. It knows you have 240 units — not that 80 of them expire next month, or which lot a particular customer received. For supplements, food, cosmetics, and anything perishable, that gap is exactly where shrink and risk live. BatchGuard closes it.
Track inventory by lot and expiry, not just count
BatchGuard lets you record lot numbers and expiry or best-by dates against your products, so your stock is organized by batch instead of one undifferentiated pile. You can see what's approaching its date, plan to move it first, and keep older lots from sitting behind newer ones — first-expired, first-out (FEFO) thinking applied to a Shopify catalog.
Expiry awareness before it becomes waste
Stock that quietly ages out is money thrown away — and for regulated products, selling something past date is worse than waste. BatchGuard surfaces lots that are nearing or past their expiry so you can discount, pull, or rotate them while there's still a choice to make.
- Lot-number tracking — tie inventory to the batch it came from, the way your supplier and your records already do.
- Expiry & best-by dates — know what's aging and what's past date, at a glance.
- FEFO-friendly — organize so first-to-expire moves first instead of getting buried.
- Batch-level recall — when one lot has a problem, identify and act on just that batch.
When a recall has to be precise
The worst time to discover you can't tell which lot went where is during a recall. BatchGuard keeps lot information attached to your inventory so that if one batch needs to be pulled, you can scope the action to that lot specifically — instead of guessing or pulling everything. That precision is the difference between a contained issue and a brand-wide scramble.
Who BatchGuard is for
Supplement and nutraceutical brands, food and beverage sellers, cosmetics and skincare lines, and CBD or hemp products — anywhere lots and expiry dates are part of doing business. It sits alongside the rest of the toolkit: COA Vault proves a batch was tested, FactsPanel shows its label, and BatchGuard tracks where that batch is and when it expires.
Honest about what it is
BatchGuard is a tracking and organization tool. It records the lot and expiry data you enter and helps you locate and act on a batch — it does not manage a recall for you, notify regulators or customers on your behalf, or guarantee compliance with any food-safety or product-traceability requirement. Your records and your actions remain your responsibility.