Retail & multi-store businesses
One live view across every branch
Once you cross three or four stores, the daily WhatsApp update stops working. You need one place where stock, sales and money are true for every branch at the same time.
What usually hurts
- Stock figures that are already wrong by the time you read them
- Ordering done on gut feel because nobody trusts the report
- POS, accounts and inventory each telling a different story
- Head office finding out about a problem a week too late
What I build for you
Live multi-branch stock
Every branch's position in one screen, updating as it happens — so you can move stock between stores instead of buying more.
Automatic ordering
Purchase suggestions generated from real sales velocity and lead times, ready for you to approve rather than build from scratch.
POS, accounts and inventory joined up
A sale at the counter updates stock and accounts on its own. Nobody re-enters anything anywhere.
Owner dashboard
Sales, margin, stock cover and exceptions on your phone every morning, without asking anyone for a report.
What the first three months look like
Every business is different, but this is the shape most engagements in this industry take.
- Weeks 1–2
Find where the numbers break
Follow one product from purchase order to shelf to sale to ledger, in a real store, and note every place the number changes hands or gets re-typed.
- Weeks 3–5
One product list to rule them all
A single item master and coding standard across all branches. Most multi-store businesses are quietly running four different versions of the same catalogue.
- Weeks 6–9
Live stock and automatic ordering
Branch-level stock visible in real time, with purchase suggestions generated from actual sales velocity rather than someone's memory.
- Weeks 10–12
Owner reporting and rollout
The daily numbers pack, exception alerts, and store-by-store training until every branch is working the same way.
Retail chains: common questions
Usually around three or four. Below that you can hold the whole business in your head. Above it, the daily phone calls and messages stop scaling and you start making buying decisions on stale information.
In most cases yes. Modern POS systems expose an API or at minimum a scheduled export, and building around a working till is far cheaper than replacing it. I check this properly during discovery before recommending anything.
Yes — that is usually the first thing owners notice. Once every branch writes to one system, you can see what each holds and move stock between stores instead of buying more of something you already own.
Other industries I work in
Pharmacy & healthcare retail chains
Built for batch, expiry, licences and thin margins
Travel agencies & tour operators
Bookings, costing, commissions and settlements in one place
Money transfer, forex & remittance
Where compliance and reconciliation cannot slip
Want to talk about retail chains?
Thirty minutes, no sales pitch. Just a straight read on your situation.