Industries
Retail software development
Retail software lives or dies on one number: whether the stock figure on the screen matches what is on the shelf. Almost every other problem traces back to that.
Stock that is right in the system and wrong in the shop
With one store a spreadsheet works. With four, the numbers drift: a transfer between shops is not recorded, a return goes back on the shelf but not into the system, an online order sells something that was sold in person an hour earlier. Staff stop trusting the number and start walking to the stockroom to check, which is the point at which the software has stopped helping.
What we build
- Point of sale for one or many locations
- Multi-store inventory and transfers
- Stock counts and reconciliation
- Loyalty and customer accounts
- E-commerce and in-store stock sync
- Sales and margin reporting
What makes this sector hard
The till must work when the internet does not
A shop that cannot take payment because the connection dropped is losing money by the minute. POS has to keep selling offline and reconcile afterwards, which means the local device holds authoritative state for a while and conflict resolution has to be designed rather than assumed.
Peak trading is the only test that counts
Black Friday and the December weeks generate the year's load in a handful of days. That is also when a checkout failure is most expensive. We load test against the peak and put a freeze on releases around it, because the correct number of deploys during your busiest week is zero.
One stock number, many channels
Once you sell in store and online, the two have to share a single source of truth with reservations and near-real-time updates. Two systems syncing every fifteen minutes is how you oversell an item and cancel a customer's order.
On experience in your sector
We are straight about this: these are capability pages, not a client list. Where we have delivered in a sector we will name the client on the projects page. Where we have not, what we bring is the engineering, the compliance groundwork and a willingness to learn your domain quickly rather than pretend we already have.
FAQ
Often yes. Shopify and WooCommerce both have solid APIs and are common starting points, and we build alongside them rather than replacing something that already works. Where the platform is the constraint rather than the solution we will say so, but replacing a working storefront is rarely the cheapest way to fix a stock problem.
We integrate with terminal providers rather than building payment hardware integration from scratch. Which terminals you use affects what is possible, so it is worth telling us early rather than after the checkout flow is designed.
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