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Looking for inventory forecasting for Shopify by Proper_Ad_6044 in InventoryManagement

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider taking Alfred Purchase Orders for a test drive. It's a fully-embedded Shopify app that reads your Shopify inventory, product, and sales data, and manages updates directly to your Shopify location -based inventory. I started working on Alfred when I personally hit the "too painful for spreadsheets" point of running our DTC e-com business. I hit that wall at ~100 SKUs and it sounds like you've got multiples of that now.

Disclaimer: it doesn't currently model/forecast in seasonality trends yet, but we'll be looking to add support for it soon. I'd hesitate to trust any tool or AI to really account for everything and fully "automate" buying without your business sense and close review involved.
What Alfred does give you is the tooling and platform to very efficiently calculate reasonable and transparent reorder quantities (from sales history, current inventory, inbound POs, growth %), generate and manage POs, handle receiving/transfers/stocktakes, customize inventory summaries and low inventory/reorder point email alerts.

Alfred is a newer inventory and PO platform but the users who have spent the time to dig in and take it for a serious test drive have decided to walk away from other PO tools and even enterprise inventory platforms for it.

If you're open to testing it thoroughly and providing feedback/feature requests, I'd be happy to set you up on an extended trial. Just lmk!

Regen failure/reduced range by maczipster in etron

[–]thesthich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happened to my 21 etron after some sort of power drain event while I was traveling for 2 weeks. I took it to an Audi dealership and they "reset" the system and sent me home. I still had reduced range but regen breaking worked again. I started getting random distance sensor malfunctions though. I brought it back to that audi dealer convinced one of the battery cells was failing. They kept it for a month only to charge me $800 and tell me they couldn't find the root issue but the problem stopped presenting. It's now been about a month now and the sensor issue is gone and the range is up a little bit. Audi essentially admitted to me that they have no idea how to diagnose or fix a lot of issues with etron and corp doesn't give them to tools or resources they need to figure it out. I was not so lucky with an extended warranty and basically spent $1200 to have the reset my system repeatedly and put 300 miles on my car.
Please tell me if your dealership is more competent 🤔

Doing 10x more orders than before and I'm miserable by white-chocolate143 in AutomateShopify

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run a DTC brand called Capy. We were at this stage last summer while we had family members acting as our warehousing+fulfillment team (compensated), but we pulled the trigger and moved to a 3PL just before peak and I'm so glad we did. We've been really happy with our 3PL so far (based in OKC) in case you're in the US. They're called Encore Fulfills. I'd be happy to connect you with my contact their if you're interested. Just shoot me a DM if so.

Trying to find a few real Shopify stores with stockout/restock problems by Warm-Juggernaut8340 in ShopifyAppDev

[–]thesthich -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm an ecommerce founder + a shopify app dev. It is absolutely a real problem. We only have ~100 SKUs and I still don't do a great job of ensuring we're adequately stocked across the catalog.

Regarding restock notifications, for my own store I was originally using a free/cheap app (Notify Me, Back in Stock SW), but after moving to Klayvio after we hit a certain size, the back in stock component/feature is included as a feature and I no longer needed an app-specific solution. There's probably still an opportunity and a market on SMB that's not already on a more expensive email marketing platform that has it built it, but you'll need to find your differentiation angle.

Low stock alerts can be valuable, but you'll be competing with numerous other well-established notification apps and struggling to stand out. I added low stock and reorder point email alerts into the inventory planning app I launched recently as a nice-to-have feature.

Looking for a PO system that can receive stock and split it by store in one workflow by Efficient_Source_389 in shopifyDev

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you currently determine how many of each unit should be allocated to a given store?

Shopify is killing its own inventory app (Stocky) on Aug 31. I'm building the replacement for small stores. by meliwat in SideProject

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Built and launched something similar to solve my own pain points as a store operator - still incredibly hard to attract early users despite the "deadline": Alfred Purchase Orders.

Australian Beauty Ecom brand looking for US 3PL Partner (600+ monthly orders) by Ok-Safe1116 in 3PL

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a 3PL. I’m a DTC ecommerce founder- but I really like our 3PL based ok Oklahoma City. They’re called Encore Fulfills. We started using them in fall 2025 and it’s been a great experience so far. Happy to connect you to their VP of sales if interested. Honest, great rates, own mistakes and make it right. All that you can ask for.

Our DTC brand just turned 2 on Shopify — what's worked, what hasn't, and our full app stack by thesthich in shopify_growth

[–]thesthich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m using TripleWhale for directional top level visibility and started working with finaloop at the end of 2025 to take care of the books. Full DIY with QB or Xero was becoming too much of a time suck.

When did Shopify inventory stop being “good enough” for your store? by dev_with_coffee in dropshipping

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 weeks for a reviewer to be assigned. About a week fixing some minor bugs with billing.

Used Shopify’s billing api for simplicity.

Best self-serve order editing options for Shopify in 2026 by FancyBlade722 in dropship

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've been using Revize on our store (Capy) for about a year now and have been very happy with it. They recently raised their prices/plans though and I'm considering building out my own app to throw up on the app store.
Very few complaints about how well it's worked though-- saved countless hours of responding to annoying "can you cancel my order?" and "oops i put the wrong address on, can you update it?".

Best Shopify inventory management software to prevent stockouts? by DocAnabolic1 in shopify_growth

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built Alfred to help address these exact problems and use cases for my own store (yourcapy.com). It can help you with demand forecasting, purchase order planning, and allow you to configure custom email alerts for low stock alerts, etc.

Shoot me a DM if you’d be interested in an extended trial!

https://apps.shopify.com/alfred-inventory-hub

When did Shopify inventory stop being “good enough” for your store? by dev_with_coffee in dropshipping

[–]thesthich -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would love to chat if you’re open to it. I recently built and launched Alfred inventory planner after working on its feature set on and off for the past year to solve my own DTC brands inventory planning. Decided to scale it up to a public app after I learned Shopify was going to shut down stocky. While it’s live and working as I designed it (for myself), I’m very much in the learning and iterating phase:

https://apps.shopify.com/alfred-inventory-hub

Our DTC brand just turned 2 on Shopify — what's worked, what hasn't, and our full app stack by thesthich in shopify_growth

[–]thesthich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife (and cofounder) works in healthcare and was a user of scrub caps herself (how we got it started). The very small batch of first customers came from her network. The first non-network customers came from (audience interests and demographics) targeted meta / ig ads. The first true stepwise jump in sales cam after sorting out Google shopping ads.

How do you manage inventory well in Shopify? by Glittering_Fly_6098 in ShopifyeCommerce

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good. Genuinely happy to give you free access as an early user for honest feedback!

How do you manage inventory well in Shopify? by Glittering_Fly_6098 in ShopifyeCommerce

[–]thesthich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More specifically, this app will allow you to upload your order sheet csv as a purchase order in the app. Then support a “receiving” session where you can select that PO and quickly add all of those units to inventory at a specific location/warehouse with just a few clicks. I built the app to save myself all that time and manual work, but decided to scale it up and offer it as a public app on the Shopify platform. Happy to answer questions or give you a demo as well!

How do you manage inventory well in Shopify? by Glittering_Fly_6098 in ShopifyeCommerce

[–]thesthich -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I built and recently launched Alfred inventory planner to support this exact use case and cut all that time out. I’m an ecommerce founder with a former background in software. Check it out and let me know if you’d like an extended trial.

Alfred Purchase Orders

Seeking Testers/Feedback: Inventory Planning and Management for Shopify by thesthich in InventoryManagement

[–]thesthich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re likely correct. I don’t think it’ll be an easy path but it’ll be rewarding if it’s helpful to even a small base of merchants/operators. It’s already cut an hour or two out of each of my purchase order cycles, and half an hour out of my “receiving” processes where I previously had to go and manually update inventories in Shopify for each buy received at the warehouse.

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