# Build a Fishbowl Receiving Dashboard with AI (Dock & Put-away, Over/Short Receipts)

> Build a Fishbowl receiving dashboard with AI — the dock and put-away queue, plus over and short receipts, on one board.

[Watch the video](https://customer-w58k7541hezxj5p9.cloudflarestream.com/a25296e2079364e07f18a83d83926c52/iframe)

The receiving dock is where the day's plan meets reality. Fishbowl knows what's inbound, but the team on the floor needs it on a screen, not in a report request queue.

In this video I don't build a report. I ask [ILC MCP](/fishbowl-mcp) for the Dock & Put-away Dashboard and it builds it live, against a Fishbowl database, writing the queries itself. No Jasper editor, no paid reporting add-on, no ticket to a consultant.

That's the point of the dual approach: Fishbowl's built-in reporting is rigid, and anything custom usually means iReport/Jasper or a third-party tool. Here the AI reads the live data through the MCP and lays the numbers out for you.

The Dock & Put-away Dashboard puts the receiving questions on one screen:

- Inbound due at the dock today
- Received but not yet put away
- Over and short receipts to review
- Receipts completed today

The demo runs on representative sample data, so nothing here is a real customer's numbers — but it's the same build you'd run against your own Fishbowl.

More on building live against Fishbowl this way: [How to write 4 reports with AI in Fishbowl](/blog/write-fishbowl-reports-with-ai).

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*From Israel Lopez Consulting (ILC). Custom Fishbowl Inventory integrations and software, and Fishbowl experts since 2015. Written by Israel Lopez, published October 31, 2026. Questions about this topic, or want to reach the people who wrote it? Visit https://israellopezconsulting.com/contact*