Stock numbers that don’t match, wrong items getting picked, freight typed into a carrier portal by hand, and a stocktake that shuts the business for a day. A warehouse system built around the way your shed works fixes all four.
Each of these can be measured, and each one has a fix that pays for itself fairly quickly.
You oversell something you don’t have, or hold stock you already wrote off. Both cost money, and the second one can go unnoticed for years.
Picking from a printed sheet with nothing to confirm it’s right. The customer gets the wrong item, you pay freight twice and lose the order anyway.
Without set locations, only one person knows where everything is, and new staff take months to get up to speed.
Addresses typed into a carrier portal when they’re already on the order. It’s slow, and every typo sends a parcel to the wrong street.
A full count once a year, done in a rush, and nobody trusts the numbers a few months later.
Items come back and nothing is recorded until someone finds them on a bench weeks later.
Every item has a place, and anyone can find it from a screen. It’s set up around your actual layout.
Purchase orders checked in against what actually arrived, with short shipments and wrong items flagged at the dock instead of discovered later.
Batch pick lists in shelf order so nobody walks the shed twice, and a scan to confirm the right item went in the right box.
Labels booked against your own carrier accounts straight from the order. No retyping, no wrong addresses, and the tracking number goes back to the customer automatically.
Stock levels that update as work happens, and a rolling count of a few locations each week instead of closing for a day.
Returns are logged when they arrive and tracked until they’re sorted, with replacements raised without a spreadsheet.
Stock across different sites and sales channels, all kept in one place, so the store never sells something the shed doesn’t have.
What’s selling, what isn’t, what freight actually costs per order, and which products lose money once postage is counted.
If you sell online and you’re on Site Care for WooCommerce, the ùrlar app already gives you orders in one place, merging orders into one shipment, pick lists, carrier labels, and returns and warranty tracking. For a lot of businesses, that’s all they need. See what’s included.
A custom warehouse system is for when you’ve outgrown that: multiple sites, unusual stock rules, manufacturing or kitting, or an existing system that has to stay and be connected to rather than replaced.
Tell us what’s going on in your own words. We’ll usually come back to you within one business day with a clear next step, and if it turns out you don’t need us, we’ll tell you.