Reports across every system, in one question
3PL reporting automation, because the numbers live in four places. Planning means exporting from each one, stitching them in Excel, and guessing at a formula. One 3PL had two people doing that for a week at a time. Now it is a question, answered the same day.
CartonCloud · Shopify · Google Sheets · whatever lands in the WMS
Planning around 100 own-brand SKUs across Amazon FBA, Faire, Shopify and the WMS. Most of it never integrated.
Everything that lands in the WMS is queryable, whatever channel it came from. The exports and the stitching are gone.
A brand owner ran her whole reorder analysis on her phone. No laptop, no spreadsheet.
The report you need spans systems that do not talk
Your WMS reports on the WMS. Your store reports on the store. The question you actually have sits across both, plus a marketplace and a wholesale channel. What sold, what is left, what should we buy.
Job postings for "inventory coordinator" and "purchasing admin" describe this work almost word for word. Export, stitch, guess, repeat monthly.
- Export from each systemFour logins, four date ranges, four CSVs that name the same product differently.
- Stitch it in ExcelThe part that takes the day, and the part that quietly gets a formula wrong.
- Guess the formulaHow much to reorder is a judgement call made on a number nobody fully trusts.
- Or buy a BI toolWhich also needs a person to build and maintain the reports.
Four kinds of question it answers
All of them in the chat, all of them in one sentence back.
Dispatch and stock questions
How many of a product went out between two dates. What is on hand. What is awaiting stock and why. One sentence, no report builder, no date pickers.
These are the questions that never justified building a report, so nobody ever did, and the answer got guessed at instead.
Planning without an integration
Everything that lands in the WMS can be queried regardless of which channel it came from: Amazon, Faire, Shopify, wholesale.
No integration was built for the marketplaces. The orders arrive into the warehouse as orders, and that is enough to ask questions of them.
That is what turned a week of planning into a day. The data was always there; there was no way to ask it anything. For CartonCloud →
Reorder recommendations from history
Ask what the reorder formula should be based on the sizes and colours that actually sold. It comes back with the winners, the dead stock, and the products you are not reordering but should be.
One brand found colours she had been reordering out of habit that had not sold in two seasons. Invoicing & reorders →
Reports on a schedule
Any question you ask once can become a standing report. Same question, same time every week, in your inbox. Alerts & workflows →
What it is and is not good at
It is very good at questions about what happened. It is careful about questions about what will happen.
- What happened: strongDispatch volumes, stock positions, averages, period comparisons. It is reading your own data and showing its working.
- What to reorder: goodGrounded in your sales history and your buffer. It will tell you what it based the number on.
- Forecasting: a starting pointA projection from last year's swing is a real input, not a promise. It gives you the number and the reasoning so you can argue with it.
- ExportAny answer can come out as a sheet or an email if you would rather work with it elsewhere.
You already have winners but you're not reordering them. Based on past sales you didn't sell a lot of this colour. There was no way to ask that before.
Blakeley Designs, wholesale brand
Questions we get asked
Which systems can it report across?
Anything connected. Today that is CartonCloud, Shopify, ShipStation, Jobber, Hiveage and Google Sheets, plus anything that arrives into the WMS from another channel.
Does every channel need to be connected?
No, and this is the useful part. If orders from a marketplace land in your WMS, they are queryable even though the marketplace itself was never integrated.
Can I export the answer?
Yes. Any answer can be written to a sheet or emailed, and the same question can be set to run on a schedule.
How accurate is a forecast?
It is arithmetic on your own history, not a black box. It shows what it used: last year's swing, this year's volume, your buffer. So you can judge it.
Can it email the report weekly?
Yes. Ask the question once, then say you want it every Monday at 7am. It becomes a standing workflow. Alerts & workflows →
Bring the report you never have time to pull
The one you would build if the day had two more hours in it. We will answer it live on the call, against your own data.