Das Davor — four systems, four different counts.
Selling outdoor gear across channels is an inventory problem wearing a retail costume. “Shopify thought we had twelve of a jacket. Lightspeed said eight. NuOrder had committed four to a wholesale order. The spreadsheet said something else entirely,” says Cole Mercer, Owner. “Every channel was confident and every channel was wrong.”
The cost showed up as oversells and angry customers — items sold online that the store had already sold, wholesale orders promised against stock that didn’t exist. Reconciling four counts was a weekly job, and it was always already stale by the time it finished.
$660/month across four tools. Weekly manual stock reconciliation. Recurring oversells from channels that didn’t share a count.
Der Wechsel — one catalog to rule them.
Forge & Field imported one master catalog, mapped every channel to it, and turned the others off. The first time a store sale dropped the online count in the same second, Mercer said the team actually applauded.
“The migration was a long afternoon of SKU cleanup we’d been avoiding for years anyway,” he says. “The platform just forced us to finally have one list.”
Was ersetzt wurde
| Altes Tool | Replaced by Mewayz module | Monatliche Ersparnis |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | Online Storefront | $105 |
| Lightspeed POS (×3) | POS & Inventar | $300 |
| NuOrder | B2B / Wholesale Store | $160 |
| Inventory spreadsheet | Unified Catalog | $95 |
| Alter Stack gesamt | Mewayz Business | save $660/mo |
Der Schlüssel – one number everyone trusts.
With every channel reading one catalog, the whole operation tightened:
- A sale on any channel decrements the same count instantly
- Wholesale commitments reserve real stock, not optimistic stock
- Reorder points fire from true totals across all three stores
- Month-end stock value is a glance, not a reconciliation project
There’s no sync lag to exploit when there’s only one count. The store and the website aren’t two systems being reconciled — they’re two windows onto the same number.
Die neue Normalität — buying with confidence.
“I used to place reorders half-blind and hope,” Mercer says. “Now I trust the number, so I buy tighter and carry less. The savings on the software bill are real, but carrying less dead stock is the bigger win we didn’t even pitch ourselves on.”