BLAPI-Core: All Features at a Glance
BLAPI-Core is not just a lister. It is a full-featured, AI-powered Warehouse Management System (WMS), tailored exactly to the needs of professional LEGO® sellers. From the first recognition under the camera to the final live sync of your inventory – BLAPI-Core accelerates and secures every step of your workflow.
The local web application runs resource-efficiently in the background (accessible by default via Port 3104) and gives you access to these powerful functions via any browser in the network:
📸 1. AI-Powered Part Recognition
No more endless searching for part numbers in catalogs. BLAPI-Core uses state-of-the-art image recognition to revolutionize your workflow.
- Lightning-fast camera scan: Place the part under the webcam, press the spacebar, and the AI identifies the part including shape and color in fractions of a second.
- Minifigure Inspector: If you scan a complete minifigure or a single part of it, the app immediately shows you all associated individual parts (head, torso, legs, accessories). You can see live if you already have missing parts in your warehouse to complete it.
- Set & Usage Analysis: With one click, you can check which official sets a part appears in, allowing you to accurately estimate its rarity and value.
- Intelligent Consolidation: The app immediately recognizes if you already have a scanned part in stock and suggests adding it to the existing lot to save on shop costs.
🧠 2. Smart Sorting Assistant
The "brain" of BLAPI-Core organizes your physical warehouse fully automatically and without errors.
- Chaos System (Maximum Contrast): The recommended strategy for e-commerce. The AI sorts new parts in such a way that similarities (same color, same shape) in a drawer are strictly avoided. This reduces picking errors to zero when packing orders.
- Pharmacy System (Shape Grouping): For traditional sorters. Attracts identical shapes, but intelligently protects you from "toxic color mixtures" (e.g., mixing Light Gray and Light Bluish Gray).
- Primary Sorting Places: New parts are automatically assigned to empty bins on your table. A sophisticated scoring system calculates the perfect table spot for every single part.
📦 3. Hub System & Mobile Put-Away
Minimize your walking distances and put away thousands of parts a day without breaking a sweat.
- Collection Hubs: Instead of walking to the other end of the room for every single part, the AI automatically assigns distant storage locations to collection containers (hubs) on your table.
- Mobile Put-Away (Phone & Tablet): When a hub is full, simply scan the generated QR code. Your smartphone opens a route-optimized put-away list.
- Live Corrections at the Shelf: Are you standing at the shelf and the compartment is full? Change the location, quantity, or price directly on your phone. The app synchronizes the data with your main computer in that exact same second.
📊 4. Commercial Tools & Pricing
Don't leave your margins to chance. BLAPI-Core provides you with deep market insights right while you are scanning.
- Flexible Pricing Strategies: Choose from various statistical values (e.g., the weighted 6-month average sales price) and set percentage modifiers to specifically undercut the competition.
- KPI Indicators (Market Analysis): Traffic light badges immediately evaluate each part by turnover rate, market volume, and saturation. You can adjust the thresholds exactly to your company size.
- Inventory Price Lock: When you consolidate a part, the app automatically protects your already existing price in the shop to prevent price chaos.
🚀 5. Secure Upload & Verification
Upload hundreds of lots stress-free and 100% securely.
- The Staging Queue: A safe waiting room for your captured parts, where you can check and adjust everything once more before the XML upload.
- Escalation Warnings: The system intelligently blocks the upload if you forgot to physically put away parts from your hubs.
- The Safety Net: Did you forget parts in the hub and uploaded anyway? The fallback system in the upload history shows you exactly which parts still need to be put away.
- Final Verification: Clean tracking of all uploads (Draft vs. Verified) ensures that not a single brick gets lost on its way to BrickLink.
🔄 6. Sync Engine
The fully automated synchronization keeps your local warehouse and your online marketplaces perfectly in sync.
- BrickLink Master Mode: After every upload, the Sync Engine automatically fetches the newly generated Lot IDs from BrickLink and links them to your local database.