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Retail looks different from the buying side. Sell-through rate, open-to-buy budgets, inventory turnover, and the difference between gross margin and contribution margin all matter when you’re writing a $40,000 PO. Below is every guide, feature deep-dive, integration walkthrough, and solution overview we publish — search by keyword to jump straight to what you need.
Retail concepts
What is Open-to-Buy?
The single most important number in retail buying. How OTB is calculated, why it matters, and how to manage it across categories and seasons.
What is Sell-Through Rate?
The percentage of received units that sold in a window. How to read it, what targets to set, and how to use it to plan reorders.
Purchase Order Basics
Anatomy of a PO, the difference between order date and ship-by date, landed cost, partial receipts, and what to put in writing.
Inventory Turnover Explained
What turns are, how to compute them, what a healthy turn rate looks like by category, and why turns drive cash flow.
Feature deep-dives
AI Assistant
An AI-native assistant grounded in your data with real tools for POs, inventory, vendors, products, and open-to-buy.
Purchase Orders
Multi-location POs, automatic landed-cost distribution, partial receiving, undo, and full reorder lineage.
Open-to-Buy Planning
Plan budgets by category and season, track commitments live, and see remaining OTB against actuals.
Inventory Management
Real-time stock by location, adjustments, transfers, and a single source of truth across stores.
Reorder Automation
AI-suggested reorders driven by sell-through history with one-click confirmation. Lineage forever.
Stock Transfers
Move stock between locations cleanly, with auto-drafts when you split a receipt across stores.
Vendor Management
Vendors, contacts, terms, and a clean history of every PO and conversation tied to each one.
Reports & Analytics
Sell-through, margin, top movers, and slow movers. Plain dashboards plus AI-explained narratives.
Solutions by buyer type
For Boutique Retailers
A lean AI-native buying and inventory platform shaped for single-store and small-multi-store boutiques.
For Multi-Store Retailers
Multi-location POs, transfer drafts on partial receipts, and per-location open-to-buy in one workflow.
For Apparel Buyers
Size runs, color matrices, and seasonal cadence handled natively. Built for the way fashion buys.
For Footwear Buyers
Size runs, widths, and re-buying cadence tuned to footwear category math.
For Trade Show Buyers
Voice-drafted POs on the floor, multi-line and multi-location in one go. Phone-first by design.
Integration guides
Shopify Integration Guide
Two-way sync of catalog, variants, inventory, and locations with webhook-powered real-time updates.
Heartland Retail Integration Guide
Connect your Heartland Retail POS for live catalog, inventory, and location sync.
CSV / B2B Import Guide
Bulk-import vendor catalogs and B2B feeds via CSV, with column mapping and dedupe.
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