You outgrew the spreadsheet about a year ago
One warehouse, a few hundred SKUs, and reordering that runs on memory and a Sunday night spreadsheet. Stockie turns that into dates and quantities.
- 100 to 2,000 SKUs
- One or two locations
- Reordering decided by whoever remembers
The knowledge is in someone's head
It works until the person who holds it goes on leave, or until the catalogue gets big enough that nobody can hold it any more. Both happen sooner than expected.
- Best sellers run out anyway. The items that matter most move fastest, which is exactly why they are the ones that catch you out between checks.
- Cash sits in the wrong stock. Over-ordering the things that felt urgent leaves nothing for the lines that actually turn over.
- Nobody can check the working. A quantity someone felt was right cannot be reviewed, handed over or improved.
A list with dates on it
Stockie reads your Shopify sales history, works out a daily rate per item, and tells you the date each order has to leave by.
- Order-by dates, not vague warnings. Every line carries the date it runs low and the date you must order by, worked back from your supplier's lead time.
- Quantities you can defend. Each suggestion decomposes into sales rate, lead time, safety stock and top-up, so a number can be questioned and answered.
- The alert arrives before the problem. Reorder alerts to email or Slack, a set number of days before the reorder date, so there is still time to act.
- It survives someone leaving. Settings live in the app rather than in a person, so the process carries on when the person who built it does not.
Common questions
We only have a few hundred SKUs. Is this overkill?
A few hundred SKUs is roughly where a spreadsheet stops being reliable, because that is more items than one person can hold in their head. If you are still comfortably on top of it, Pro alone may be all you ever need.
How much setup is involved?
Install, let it read your sales history, then set a default lead time and safety stock. That is enough to get a usable list. Per-supplier and per-product overrides are there when you want to tune, not before.
Do we need the purchasing features?
Not necessarily. Pro tells you what to order and when. If you are happy emailing suppliers the way you do today, that may be the whole job. Pro Plus is for when you want the orders, receiving and costs handled in the same place.
What you would actually use
Forecasting
Sales velocity per item per location, from up to a year of your own Shopify history. Reorder dates and quantities, with the maths shown.
ProReorder alerts
Email and Slack, instant or scheduled, on the items your forecast says are about to cross their reorder point.
ProSuppliers
Contacts, currency, lead times, addresses and supplier part codes. Assign by condition, or import straight from your Shopify vendors.
ProReports
Stockout, stockout risk, overstocked, dead stock, sales performance, ABC analysis, inventory value and more, all exportable.
ProSound like your store?
Install Stockie and run it against your own catalogue for a fortnight. If it does not fit, uninstalling costs nothing.