Your online store and your back office have never actually met.
We build operational systems for retail and e-commerce businesses that have outgrown the patchwork — inventory, orders, production, fulfillment, and customer management in one place instead of duct-taped together across six systems that weren't designed to talk to each other.
We've heard this before
Every product gets entered twice
Once in the ERP. Once in the web system. When a product is a base component for 20 different sellable variations, that's 20 separate entries in two places. You've built workarounds — clone triggers, export scripts, manual syncs — and they hold until they don't. Every workaround you add is technical debt that someone has to maintain.
Your system goes down when you need it most
A homegrown ERP built years ago on architecture that was already aging when it was written. It runs fine most of the time. At peak — 800 orders an hour during the holiday season — it doesn't. After every Q4, staff complaints about stability are at the top of the list. You're reinvesting to fix it instead of reinvesting to grow.
Your customer service team manages SLAs with a spreadsheet
A daily SQL extract into Excel, reviewed manually, flagged by order age rather than actual delivery commitment. An order placed ten days ago shows as a red alert. An order due tomorrow shows as fine. Someone sits with this spreadsheet every morning making judgment calls that the system should be making automatically.
You can't see across your locations without asking
Six locations, 90 employees, and the visibility that comes from being physically present in one of them. No centralized dashboard for appointment volume, staff utilization, or revenue per location. When something goes wrong somewhere else, you find out after it's already a problem.
A direct-to-consumer e-commerce manufacturer had solid sales forecasting and order forecasting — but no labor forecasting. Staffing decisions were thumb-in-the-air: they needed 190 FTEs one season and got to 170, then had to cut marketing spend and leave sales on the table because production couldn't keep up. Meanwhile, every product in their catalog required duplicate data entry across two disconnected systems, and their ERP had crashed during peak holiday volume — 800 orders per hour — more than once.
Six weeks after go-live: labor requirements calculated automatically from order type and volume by department, product data entered once and flowed to both systems, and peak season passed without a stability incident.
Staff complaint number one after Q4 was system instability. It's like someone who speaks quickly with an eight-year-old's vocabulary.
— Owner, e-commerce manufacturer, on their legacy ERP built in Visual Basic 1.0
What your operation looks like after
Product data lives in one place.
Enter it once. It flows to the web catalog, the production floor, the fulfillment system. Variants, components, pricing — managed from a single record. The duplicate entry cycle ends, and so does the drift between what the website shows and what's actually in the warehouse.
Your system handles peak without breaking.
Modern architecture that scales with order volume rather than against it. Holiday season, a flash sale, an unexpected spike — absorbed by infrastructure built for it. The post-Q4 debrief stops being about system failures and starts being about what sold.
SLAs run on actual delivery commitments.
Orders flagged based on when they're due, not how old they are. Customer service sees what actually needs attention. The daily manual triage becomes an automated alert. Time spent reviewing a spreadsheet goes back to resolving issues.
You can see every location from one screen.
Revenue, staff utilization, appointment conversion, operational exceptions — visible across all locations in real time. You stop finding out about problems after they've already cost you something.
Most of what you need is already built. We have 200+ pre-built modules covering the core of retail and e-commerce operations — inventory management, order processing, production workflows, multi-location dashboards, customer portals. Your implementation budget goes toward the 20% that makes your operation yours. Your team is in the new system in 6 weeks. Not in a demo. Running real orders.
Most of it already exists · you're live in 6 weeks · we handle the parts that make you different
Show us how an order moves through your operation.
Not a sales call. We'll map how work moves through your business and show you where a system would actually help — before you commit to anything.
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