inFlow Inventory MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides comprehensive tools for interacting with the inFlow Inventory API. This enables AI assistants like Claude to manage your inventory, orders, customers, and more.

Current package version: 1.2.0

Features

• Products: List, search, create, update products and check inventory levels
• Sales Orders: Create customer orders and patch existing orders without dropping unmentioned lines or serial numbers
• Purchase Orders: Create vendor purchase orders, receive stock, and reverse received stock
• Customers & Vendors: Manage customer and vendor records
• Inventory Operations: Stock adjustments, transfers, counts, and manufacturing orders
• Manufacturing Orders: Create or patch work orders while preserving output/input lines and serial numbers
• Serial Numbers: Query serial numbers from orders or product inventory lines
• Reference Data: Locations, categories, pricing schemes, payment terms, currencies, tax codes
• Webhooks: Subscribe to inFlow events

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18 or higher
• An active inFlow Inventory subscription with API add-on
• inFlow API credentials (Company ID and API Key)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/bigl34/inflow-mcp-server.git
cd inflow-mcp-server

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the TypeScript
npm run build

Configuration

Getting Your API Credentials

1. Log in to your inFlow Inventory account
2. Go to Settings > Integrations
3. Find your Company ID on the integrations page
4. Click Add New API Key to generate a new key

Environment Variables

Set the following environment variables:

# Required
export INFLOW_COMPANY_ID="your-company-id"
export INFLOW_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Optional
export INFLOW_BASE_URL="https://cloudapi.inflowinventory.com"  # Default
export INFLOW_API_VERSION="2025-06-24"  # Default API version
export INFLOW_RATE_LIMIT="60"  # Requests per minute (default: 60)
export INFLOW_REQUEST_TIMEOUT="30000"  # Request timeout in ms (default: 30000)
export INFLOW_MAX_RETRIES="3"  # Max retries on 5xx/429 errors (default: 3)
export INFLOW_RETRY_DELAY="1000"  # Initial retry delay in ms (default: 1000)
export INFLOW_DEBUG="true"  # Enable debug logging (default: false)

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "inflow-inventory": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/inflow-mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "INFLOW_COMPANY_ID": "your-company-id",
        "INFLOW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

Product Management

Tool	Description
list_products	Search and filter products
get_product	Get product details by ID (use include=itemBoms for BOM)
upsert_product	Create or update a product
get_inventory_summary	Get stock levels across locations
get_inventory_summaries_batch	Batch get stock levels (max 100)
get_bill_of_materials	Get BOM components for a manufacturable product

Sales Orders

Tool	Description
list_sales_orders	Search and filter sales orders
get_sales_order	Get order details by ID
upsert_sales_order	Create an order or partially update an existing order. Updates preserve unmentioned header fields and lines, merge item patches by line ID or unambiguous product ID, and remove lines listed in deleteLineIds.

Purchase Orders

Tool	Description
list_purchase_orders	Search and filter purchase orders
get_purchase_order	Get order details by ID
upsert_purchase_order	Create or update a purchase order
receive_purchase_order	Receive all remaining items or selected quantities onto a purchase order
unreceive_purchase_order	Reverse received stock by receive-line ID, product quantity, or full unreceive

Customers

Tool	Description
list_customers	Search and filter customers
get_customer	Get customer details by ID
upsert_customer	Create or update a customer

Vendors

Tool	Description
list_vendors	Search and filter vendors
get_vendor	Get vendor details by ID
upsert_vendor	Create or update a vendor

Inventory Operations

Tool	Description
list_stock_adjustments	List stock adjustments
get_stock_adjustment	Get adjustment details
upsert_stock_adjustment	Create/update stock adjustment
list_stock_transfers	List stock transfers
get_stock_transfer	Get transfer details
upsert_stock_transfer	Create/update stock transfer
list_stock_counts	List inventory counts
get_stock_count	Get count details
upsert_stock_count	Create/update stock count
list_manufacturing_orders	List work orders
get_manufacturing_order	Get work order details
upsert_manufacturing_order	Create a work order or partially update an existing one. Updates preserve unmentioned fields, patch output quantity/serials in place, merge input-line patches, and remove lines listed in deleteInputLineIds.

Serial Numbers

Tool	Description
get_sales_order_serials	Extract serial numbers assigned to sales order lines
get_purchase_order_serials	Extract serial numbers assigned to purchase order lines
search_serial_number	Search fulfilled sales orders for a serial number
list_serial_numbers	Aggregate serial numbers from fulfilled sales orders
get_product_serials	Get all serial numbers for a serialized product using product inventory lines
list_all_serials	List serial numbers across products that track serials

Reference Data

Tool	Description
list_locations	List warehouse locations
get_location	Get location details
get_suggested_sublocations	Get bin/shelf suggestions
list_categories	List product categories
list_pricing_schemes	List pricing tiers
list_payment_terms	List payment terms
list_taxing_schemes	List tax schemes
upsert_taxing_scheme	Create/update tax scheme
list_tax_codes	List tax codes
list_currencies	List currencies
list_adjustment_reasons	List adjustment reasons
list_custom_field_definitions	List custom fields
get_custom_field_dropdown_options	Get dropdown options
list_team_members	List inFlow users

Webhooks

Tool	Description
list_webhooks	List webhook subscriptions
upsert_webhook	Create/update webhook
delete_webhook	Delete webhook

Usage Examples

List Products

List all active products in the "Electronics" category

Create a Sales Order

Create a sales order for customer "Acme Corp" with:
- 5 units of product SKU-001 at $29.99 each
- 10 units of product SKU-002 at $15.00 each
Required by next Friday

Patch a Sales Order

Update sales order SO-1001:
- change the required date to next Monday
- update line abc123 to quantity 2 with serial numbers SN-001 and SN-002
- remove line def456

Receive a Purchase Order

Receive all remaining items on purchase order PO-1001 at the Main Warehouse

Reverse a Purchase Order Receipt

Unreceive 1 unit of product SKU-001 from purchase order PO-1001 as a dry run first

Check Inventory

What's the current stock level for product "Widget Pro" across all locations?

Look Up Serial Numbers

Show all in-stock serial numbers for product "Widget Pro"

Create Stock Transfer

Transfer 50 units of "Widget Pro" from "Main Warehouse" to "Retail Store"

API Features

Filtering

Most list operations support filtering. For example:

list_products with name="Widget" and isActive=true

Pagination

Large result sets are paginated. Use skip and count parameters:

• count: Number of records to return (max 100)
• skip: Number of records to skip

Note: The default page size is 20 records. Always specify count when you need all records.

Sorting

All list operations support sorting:

• sort: Property name to sort by (e.g., "name", "modifiedDate", "orderDate")
• sortDesc: Set to true for descending order

list_products with sort="modifiedDate" and sortDesc=true

Total Count

To get the total number of matching records (useful for pagination UI), use includeCount:

list_sales_orders with status="Open" and includeCount=true

Response includes:

{
  "data": [...],
  "totalCount": 42
}

Smart Search

Some endpoints support smart parameter for fuzzy searching across multiple fields:

list_customers with smart="acme"  // Searches name, email, phone
list_sales_orders with smart="SO-2025"  // Searches order fields

Includes

Use the include parameter to fetch related data:

get_sales_order with include=["customer", "lines", "lines.product"]
get_product with include=["inventoryLines"]

Partial Updates

upsert_sales_order and upsert_manufacturing_order support safe partial updates when id is provided:

• Existing fields and lines that are not mentioned are preserved.
• Line patches merge by explicit line ID, or by product ID when there is exactly one matching line.
• Sales order lines listed in deleteLineIds are removed.
• Manufacturing order input lines listed in deleteInputLineIds are removed.
• Serial numbers can be patched without rebuilding the whole order manually.

Concurrency Control

When updating records, include the timestamp field from the original record to prevent conflicts.

Rate Limiting

The inFlow API has a rate limit of 60 requests per minute. This server implements:

• Token bucket rate limiting: Automatically paces requests to stay within limits
• Automatic retries: Retries on 5xx errors and rate limit (429) responses with exponential backoff
• Configurable limits: Override via INFLOW_RATE_LIMIT environment variable

Error Handling

The server returns descriptive error messages from the inFlow API. Common errors include:

• 401 Unauthorized: Invalid API key
• 404 Not Found: Resource doesn't exist
• 409 Conflict: Timestamp mismatch (record was modified)
• 429 Too Many Requests: Rate limit exceeded (automatically retried)

Development

# Watch mode for development
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run the server
npm start

# Run tests
npm test

# Run tests in watch mode
npm run test:watch

# Run tests with coverage
npm run test:coverage

API Documentation

• inFlow API Documentation
• inFlow API Support Guide

License

MIT