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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 with per-line destinations, per-line landed cost (wholesale + shipping-per-unit), partial receiving, undo on un-pushed receipts, and a complete audit trail.
Open-to-Buy Planning
Plan monthly budgets by category and location across a rolling 12-month horizon. Track commitments live and see remaining OTB against actuals.
Inventory Management
Live POS mirror at the variant + location level, with reorder rules, demand forecasts, and AI-queryable data on top.
Reorder Automation
AI-suggested reorders driven by sell-through history with one-click confirmation. Lineage forever.
Transfer Recommendations
A Transfer List report that recommends inter-location stock moves ranked by estimated margin upside. Report-only by design.
Vendor Management
Vendors, contacts, terms, and a clean history of every PO and conversation tied to each one.
Reports & Analytics
29 pre-built reports: sell-through, dead stock, vendor performance, OTB, margin, inventory turns + GMROI + CMROI. Saved views, scheduled email, CSV / XLSX / PDF export.
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 with per-line destinations, stock-balancing transfer recommendations, 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 (Coming Soon)
On our roadmap: two-way catalog, inventory, and location sync for Heartland Retail. Shopify is live today.
CSV / B2B Import Guide
Bulk-import vendor catalogs and B2B feeds via CSV, with column mapping and dedupe.
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