Introducing Sea-Glass: Multi-Item AI Donation Sorting

One whole cart of donated items sorted and routed with one tool

The varying range of donated goods has always been a major bottleneck for resale intake teams.

A single donation bin can easily contain dozens items that need further research. And if product experts aren’t available in the warehouse, unknown goods can sit for days or weeks. Likely being miscategorized, mispriced, and sold for way less than it should have been.

Enter pearldive Sea-Glass, the multi-item AI donation sorting extension to pearldive Ama Sorter.

Sort Multiple Items At Once With Sea-Glass

Ama Sorter has already streamlined backroom donation sorting by offering identification guidance and sorting recommendations to intake crews. All workers need to do to is take 1-3 pictures and pearldive’s built-for-thrift AI donation sorting software will return product information and routing suggestions for that item.

Sea-Glass can handle a great deal of items at once, but it works best when up to 30 items are in the photos. Items should be clearly and fully visible to be included in the recommendations. Just take a few pictures, and the entire cart has been entered into your inventory system:

• Items that historically perform well in-store are tagged for retail.
• Items that are strong e-commerce contenders are tagged for e-commerce. If you’re using Upright Lister and pearldive Auto-Lister, they can also be automatically manifested for your e-commerce system.
• Items that need further input are flagged for review

“They can have a whole cart of VHS, CDs, DVDs, video games…and just take a picture of the whole thing and it will itemize for them. That is a real game changer.”
—Sam Jones, Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley

Better Results for Retail and E-Commerce—and Employees

The goal of pearldive’s AI donation sorting is to help your team move quickly and confidently through repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

It gives them the information they need at the point of decision so they don’t have to spend so much time researching individual items. This gives them more bandwidth to focus on additional high-impact activities.

Likewise, Sea-Glass isn’t designed to simply send as many items as possible to e-commerce. Rather, its goal is to identify which items in a lot would sell most profitably on an e-commerce platform—and which items would do well on the shop floor. Even thrift locations that don’t participate in online sales can benefit from Sea-Glass’ ultra-fast identification and sorting recommendations.

Ultimately, it’s about creating the best mix of goods for your channels of choice.

Stop the Guessing Game and Start AI Donation Sorting with Sea-Glass

Thrift intake teams are responsible for sorting, photographing, reviewing, pricing, and routing hundreds of diverse donated items every day. Make their jobs easier with pearldive Sea-Glass, the donation intake tool that’s designed for thrift workflows. Now teams don’t have to manually remove and identify each item one by one; they can take a picture of a group of items and get instant recommendations for routing.

So don’t just give your team a list of rules and tips. Give them an AI donation sorting tool that empowers them with up-to-date knowledge and the confidence to move quickly and efficiently through the intake process.

Ready to see how pearldive can streamline your sorting process?

Schedule a personalized demo today.