Warehouse and field teams managing stock from Android devices, with iOS support in HandiFox Online.
Yellow Dog Software
Count XL
Barcode stock-counting software offered in a standalone mode for Yellow Dog-provided handhelds, with USB export of count sessions.
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What to know
See Count XL Stand-Alone counting, USB export, handheld requirements and the limits of its free download.
Who it is for
Retail teams needing barcode-based stock counts can use this mode without the full Yellow Dog Inventory system, according to the supplier. It is also offered to clients with on-premises servers.
Counting and export
Users scan a SKU or UPC, enter quantities, correct or delete scans and save multiple named sessions on a Yellow Dog-provided handheld. Count files are copied to the destination system through USB.
The help guide describes a non-connected standalone mode in its on-premise section. This mode does not download an item catalogue or validate scanned items against one.
Operational detail
Yellow Dog’s standalone Count XL page says users name each count session and can retain multiple sessions on the handheld, such as floor, backroom and storage. The vendor provides a sample file and describes copying counts to another system by USB. This is a bounded collection-and-transfer workflow, not evidence that the destination inventory system automatically reconciles counts.
A scenario to test
Count the same item in a front room and backroom as separate named sessions, deliberately enter an incorrect quantity and correct it. Transfer the files and import them into a test copy of the destination system. Check duplicate items, file names, character encoding, quantity totals and the procedure for rerunning a failed import.
Implementation boundary
Confirm the Yellow Dog-provided device, the file format expected by the receiving system and who merges sessions. Agree how staff prevent the same area being counted twice and how the destination system handles unknown barcode values before a full stocktake.
Evaluation in practice
For a practical stocktake comparison, give two counters adjacent areas and include one item present in both. Ask them to name sessions consistently, count the item, correct a deliberate error and transfer both files to a test workstation. In the destination system, reconcile the combined total against the separate area totals and investigate a duplicated or missing session before posting any adjustment. Document who keeps the original files, who reviews differences and how the team handles an unknown barcode, because standalone capture does not itself establish that the destination recognizes every identifier. Before purchase, inspect the sample export with the person responsible for the import, confirm device availability and agree a repeatable procedure for naming, backing up and archiving each count.
Scope and limitations
Count XL Stand-Alone captures physical inventory counts on Yellow Dog-provided handheld devices.
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At a glance
What Count XL does
Use this summary to decide whether the documented scope fits your warehouse. Edition and workflow details are listed below.
Barcode stock-counting software offered in a standalone mode for Yellow Dog-provided handhelds, with USB export of count sessions.
Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: SKU or UPC scanning for counts · Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: Count correction and named sessions · Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: USB transfer of inventory counts · Scan SKU or UPC barcodes to enter item quantities, individually or using an arithmetic calculator. — Count XL standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds only. This evidence does not establish RFID support in that mode. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it. · Adjust quantities with plus/minus rockers, edit counts and delete incorrect scans. — Controls described for the supplied handheld standalone workflow; no installed hardware test was performed. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
Copy inventory count output to the destination system through a USB cable. — Documented manual file-transfer workflow only. It is not proof of an automated ERP/accounting connector; QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop compatibility remain unverified. · The published Count XL standalone sample is a CSV with SKU and Quantity columns. — Read-only supplier sample linked by the standalone page; ten example rows, not a capacity limit or a live export/import test. No automated accounting/ERP connector is established.
Check device and deployment requirements with the supplier.
Plan and implementation notes
- This page covers Count XL's standalone mode, rather than the full Yellow Dog Inventory system. Use is limited to Yellow Dog-provided handhelds. The free download does not establish a free hardware-and-support arrangement; licence conditions, device costs and deployment costs remain unverified.
- Documentation checked on 29 October 2026 establishes standalone barcode counting on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds, saved sessions and USB count-file transfer. A published sample uses SKU and Quantity CSV columns. The mode does not download the item catalogue or validate scans. Supported standalone device models and OS versions, UI languages, current country eligibility and automated connectors remain unverified. The separate Android/RFID listing is not attributed to standalone mode. A free download does not establish a free hardware-and-support package; no all-in price or attributable dated review sample was established. No software, device or connector was tested.
Plans and ownership costs
Pricing
Pricing checked
Confirm the plan, billing unit, minimum term and required modules before comparing a quote.
Plans and terms
Count XL's standalone page offers a free download for Yellow Dog-provided handhelds. That establishes the download offer, while the price of a usable hardware-and-support arrangement remains undisclosed. This mode can serve customers who do not use the full Yellow Dog Inventory system, exports counts through USB, and allows multiple named counting sessions. No paid plan ladder or numerical SKU, device or site allowance appears. Yellow Dog's linked store is for existing clients buying extra hardware and supplies; it rejects non-client orders, so its general store terms do not establish how a new standalone customer buys a compatible handheld.
Count XL Stand-Alone — free download offer
Amount not verified / standalone app download for a Yellow Dog-provided handheld
Billing: Not established
Minimum commitment: Not established
Included
- SKU/UPC count capture, calculator count entry, count corrections and named sessions
- USB copy of count files; multiple count sessions on the device
Limits
- Restricted to Yellow Dog-provided handhelds
- No published numerical SKU, session, user, warehouse or device entitlement
Required modules
- Compatible Yellow Dog-provided handheld
- USB connection for count-file transfer
Additional costs
- Handheld acquisition or other supply arrangement: no compatible-device price verified
- Support, setup and training terms for standalone users are not priced
The literal offer is a free download. It does not publish a zero-price commercial licence, free hardware or an unrestricted free plan.
What can change your total cost
- The specified handheld restriction makes compatible hardware a necessary procurement question even though the app download is advertised as free.
- The linked web store states that current clients are invoiced before an order is placed; ground shipping to the continental US is included in store prices, sales tax is additional, and non-client orders are rejected. These are store-wide terms, not a standalone Count XL quotation.
Terms to confirm
- Commercial licence conditions and whether the free download requires an existing customer arrangement
- Compatible handheld model, device price, purchase/rental options, shipping outside the continental US and warranty
- Support, onboarding, training, software-update entitlement and any recurring fee
- Numerical item/SKU, user, device, warehouse and session limits
- Tax treatment for a complete standalone arrangement
- Trial terms, open-source licence or a commercially usable free plan
Before you choose
- Request a written standalone configuration for a non-Yellow Dog Inventory customer, including the handheld and the count-file destination.
- Keep the standalone app separate from the full inventory backend. A backend subscription price or customer-only hardware-store offer cannot be transferred to this product.
- A discovered current support article returned 403 when opened; its search excerpt is not used to impose additional backend prerequisites.
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Documented scope
Features and constraints
Feature scope checked
Capabilities retain their documented conditions. A feature not listed here has not been verified for this edition.
- Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: SKU or UPC scanning for counts
- Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: Count correction and named sessions
- Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: USB transfer of inventory counts
- Scan SKU or UPC barcodes to enter item quantities, individually or using an arithmetic calculator.Count XL standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds only. This evidence does not establish RFID support in that mode. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Adjust quantities with plus/minus rockers, edit counts and delete incorrect scans.Controls described for the supplied handheld standalone workflow; no installed hardware test was performed. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Name count sessions and retain multiple sessions on a device, for example floor, backroom and storage counts.These are named count sessions, not proof of multi-site synchronization, a warehouse master-data model or unlimited session capacity. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
Full product details and conditions
| Field | Value and conditions |
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| identity | Count XL |
| warehouse application | Barcode stock-counting software offered in a standalone mode for Yellow Dog-provided handhelds, with USB export of count sessions. |
| capabilities | Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: SKU or UPC scanning for counts, Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: Count correction and named sessions, Standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds: USB transfer of inventory counts |
| capabilities | Scan SKU or UPC barcodes to enter item quantities, individually or using an arithmetic calculator. Count XL standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds only. This evidence does not establish RFID support in that mode. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it. |
| capabilities | Adjust quantities with plus/minus rockers, edit counts and delete incorrect scans. Controls described for the supplied handheld standalone workflow; no installed hardware test was performed. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it. |
| capabilities | Name count sessions and retain multiple sessions on a device, for example floor, backroom and storage counts. These are named count sessions, not proof of multi-site synchronization, a warehouse master-data model or unlimited session capacity. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it. |
| deployment | Standalone mode is offered for clients with on-premise servers and for businesses that do not use Yellow Dog Inventory. Standalone handheld mode is documented. The server prerequisite, installation procedure, hosting architecture and synchronization dependencies are not established. |
| platforms | For use on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds only. The standalone page does not identify the handheld model, operating system or minimum OS version. An Android listing with the same name is not enough to equate the RFID app with this mode. |
| integrations | Copy inventory count output to the destination system through a USB cable. Documented manual file-transfer workflow only. It is not proof of an automated ERP/accounting connector; QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop compatibility remain unverified. |
| industries | Retail inventory counting The Count XL standalone page specifically names retail counting environments. Other Yellow Dog product sectors in navigation are not assigned to this product. |
| offline | Count XL has a non-connected standalone mode for barcode-driven physical counts: save multiple handheld sessions and retrieve files through USB. Standalone mode only: no item-catalogue download or scan validation. No hands-on test was performed; connected-mode database synchronization, offline RFID, reconnect conflict handling and automatic ERP imports are not established for this mode. |
| integrations | The published Count XL standalone sample is a CSV with SKU and Quantity columns. Read-only supplier sample linked by the standalone page; ten example rows, not a capacity limit or a live export/import test. No automated accounting/ERP connector is established. |
Field status and conditions
| Field | Status | Conditions or open questions |
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| capabilities | verified |
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| deployment | partially verified |
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| platforms | partially verified |
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| offline | partially verified |
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| integrations | partially verified |
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| industries | verified |
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| business size | unknown after check |
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| languages | unknown after check |
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| countries | unknown after check |
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Scope and conditions
- SKU/UPC barcode counting: Count XL standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds only. This evidence does not establish RFID support in that mode. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Quantity calculator: Count XL standalone mode on Yellow Dog-provided handhelds only. This evidence does not establish RFID support in that mode. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Count correction: Controls described for the supplied handheld standalone workflow; no installed hardware test was performed. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Incorrect-scan deletion: Controls described for the supplied handheld standalone workflow; no installed hardware test was performed. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Named count sessions: These are named count sessions, not proof of multi-site synchronization, a warehouse master-data model or unlimited session capacity. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Multiple device sessions: These are named count sessions, not proof of multi-site synchronization, a warehouse master-data model or unlimited session capacity. In standalone physical-count mode, the documentation says no item catalogue is downloaded and scans are not validated against it.
- Standalone handheld mode: Standalone handheld mode is documented. The server prerequisite, installation procedure, hosting architecture and synchronization dependencies are not established.
- Vendor-provided handhelds: The standalone page does not identify the handheld model, operating system or minimum OS version. An Android listing with the same name is not enough to equate the RFID app with this mode.
- USB count export: Documented manual file-transfer workflow only. It is not proof of an automated ERP/accounting connector; QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop compatibility remain unverified.
- Retail: The Count XL standalone page specifically names retail counting environments. Other Yellow Dog product sectors in navigation are not assigned to this product.
- Offline standalone counting: Standalone mode only: no item-catalogue download or scan validation. No hands-on test was performed; connected-mode database synchronization, offline RFID, reconnect conflict handling and automatic ERP imports are not established for this mode.
- CSV count export: Read-only supplier sample linked by the standalone page; ten example rows, not a capacity limit or a live export/import test. No automated accounting/ERP connector is established.
- The standalone page and the Google Play listing share the Count XL name and Yellow Dog ownership, but the listing describes RFID/EPC-locator workflows. No captured source proves which listed functions apply to the accepted standalone handheld mode, so those RFID features and an Android requirement are not added to it.
- A free software download does not establish free handhelds, support or a complete free operational arrangement. The linked shop sells extra hardware/supplies to existing clients and rejects non-client orders; its continental-US shipping statement is not standalone software-country eligibility.
- The supported-device page lists ecosystem Android models, but does not name standalone Count XL or establish its OS/model requirements. The general mobile-app version requirement is not assigned to standalone mode. Full Yellow Dog Inventory accounting integrations, including separate Online/Desktop navigation labels, remain outside verified Count XL connector support.
- The public learning page describes customer-portal access for its how-to database. No portal account was created or used; linked public technical articles can still be checked in a separately issued scope.
- The standalone technical instructions explicitly describe non-connected barcode physical counts, no downloaded catalogue or scan validation, multiple saved handheld sessions and USB file access. The separate connected Count XL page describes locally downloaded items, Wi-Fi/cellular database sync and RFID; those connected-mode behaviours are not transferred to standalone mode.
- The 2022 mobile specifications give general Android/iOS and URL-app requirements; the workstation page addresses Yellow Dog Inventory clients. Neither establishes a current standalone handheld model/OS minimum. The mode-specific restriction remains Yellow Dog-provided handhelds; Windows/Mac, iOS and general Android-version requirements are not assigned to standalone mode.
- The app-availability page explicitly dates its country table to 29 August 2022 and labels a Count XL app column. It is retained as historical app-availability evidence, not a current standalone licence/support-country list. The documentation retrieval date does not refresh the table's origin date.
- The CSV is inspected as text only. Its SKU and Quantity columns illustrate the published count-file shape, while USB access and bringing sessions into a physical count are documented separately. That is not a native QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop connector claim.
- Public standalone, mobile, technical, device and sample-file documentation was examined. OS/model prerequisites for the selected standalone device, UI languages, company-size fit, current country eligibility and named automated connectors remain unresolved. The dated app-country table is not current standalone licensing evidence.
- Offline evidence is limited to documented standalone barcode counting and local session/file transfer. Connected Count XL and the related Google Play RFID workflow remain separately scoped; neither offline RFID nor automatic database reconciliation is established for standalone. No device, software or connector execution test was performed.
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