Retail competitive advantage is built in the back office. The inventory system is where you win.
We build custom software for retail businesses — multi-location inventory management, supplier and purchasing workflows, markdown and pricing tools, and the analytics that protect margin in categories where being right matters. Fixed scope, fixed price.
You're making buying decisions for 2,000 SKUs across 8 locations based on gut feel and a weekly export from Lightspeed. A custom inventory and buying tool with sell-through analytics and reorder automation is worth more than a second buyer.
Retail is a buy-and-sell business where the margin is made or lost in the buying decision. The right SKU in the right location at the right time is margin. The wrong SKU in the wrong location in the wrong season is a markdown. The difference between a buying team that makes good decisions and one that doesn't is almost entirely a data quality problem — the better team has better information at the moment they're committing to a purchase order.
The data retailers need for good buying decisions — sell-through rate by SKU by location, weeks of supply remaining, historical demand by season and location, supplier lead times, and landed cost by product — isn't assembled in one place in most retail operations. POS exports, manually entered landed costs, and institutional knowledge form the buying process for most mid-market retailers. The result is inconsistent decisions, missed reorder windows, and markdowns that destroy the margin the buying team worked to protect.
Custom retail software doesn't need to replace your POS. It sits on top of the data your POS generates and gives your team the intelligence layer to make better purchasing decisions, trigger reorders at the right time, and manage markdowns strategically rather than reactively.
Custom retail operations software with inventory visibility, sell-through analytics, purchase order automation, and pricing decision tools — giving your buying team the data to get the right product in the right location at the right time.
Multi-location inventory intelligence
Real-time stock levels per SKU per location pulled from your POS via API. Sell-through rate, weeks of supply, and days-since-received calculated automatically and surfaced per SKU.
Reorder and purchase order automation
Reorder triggers configured by SKU and location (minimum stock, minimum weeks of supply, seasonal adjustment). PO generated automatically with preferred supplier, historical cost, and target quantity. Sent to supplier for confirmation.
Receiving and landed cost management
PO receiving workflow with variance capture (what was ordered vs. what arrived). Landed cost calculation with freight and duty applied to the cost per unit for margin accuracy.
Markdown and clearance management
Slow-moving SKU identification by sell-through rate and days-on-floor threshold. Configurable markdown ladder (10% at 30 days, 25% at 60 days, 40% at 90 days). Markdown-adjusted margin calculation before the decision is confirmed.
Buying analysis and range planning
Historical sell-through by category and supplier, supplier performance scorecard (fill rate, lead time, returns rate), and range planning tools for next season's open-to-buy calculation. Built on Next.js, Postgres, Lightspeed/Square/Shopify POS integrations, and a buying team interface designed for category managers, not IT staff.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Custom retail operations software with inventory visibility, sell-through analytics, purchase order automation, and pricing decision tools — giving your buying team the data to get the right product in the right location at the right time.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Retail technology investment is judged against margin impact. Fixed scope and fixed price makes the ROI case clean: the cost of the software, the projected reduction in markdown percentage, and the projected improvement in stock turn. Those are numbers your merchandise team can calculate before they approve the project.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
We use POS webhooks or polling APIs to receive every sales transaction, return, and adjustment in real time. Inventory levels in the system are updated within seconds of each transaction. Physical counts done in the platform are written back to the POS to keep both systems aligned.
Yes — variant management (size/colour matrix) is a specific retail data model we build for fashion and footwear retailers. Inventory, sell-through, and reorder analysis are available at the variant level, not just the style level.
The markdown tool identifies SKUs that have passed sell-through thresholds, proposes the next markdown based on your configured ladder, and shows the projected margin after markdown. You approve or override per SKU. The approved markdown is pushed back to the POS pricing.
Inventory intelligence, PO automation, receiving, and markdown management for a multi-location retail group typically runs $45k–$90k. POS integration complexity and number of locations are the main scope variables. Fixed-price.
12 to 16 weeks including POS integration and buying team training.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.