Store Automation
Stop doing it by hand.
Uploading products one at a time. Copying stock numbers between a spreadsheet and the store. Re-keying orders into whatever handles fulfillment. This is the work that quietly eats a week a month, and most of it does not need a person.
What gets automated
The rule of thumb: if you do it more than once a week and it follows the same steps every time, it's a candidate.
- Bulk and scheduled product uploads. Getting large numbers of products into the store from a spreadsheet, a supplier file, or another system, on a schedule rather than by hand.
- Inventory sync. Stock levels kept consistent across your store and any other channels you sell on, so the same unit doesn't get sold twice.
- Supplier and dropship feeds. Supplier catalogs and stock files pulled in and mapped to your product structure, including the ones that arrive in awkward formats.
- Order routing. Orders sent where they need to go automatically, whether that's a fulfillment partner, a warehouse system, or your accounting software.
- Connecting the store to everything else. Accounting, shipping, email, and whatever internal systems the business already runs on.
- Custom tooling. When no app does the specific thing you need, a small purpose-built tool is often simpler and cheaper than bending three apps around the problem.
How an automation project runs
The first phase matters most. Automating a bad process just produces bad results faster.
1. Find the actual bottleneck
We walk through what you do manually in a normal week. Often the thing that feels most annoying isn't the thing costing the most time.
2. Build and test it
Built and run against real data with you watching, so you can see what it does before it's doing it unsupervised.
3. Hand it over
You get documentation of what runs, when, and what to do when something looks wrong. Automation nobody understands is a liability.
Related
Automation usually comes up alongside one of these.
Store Management
If the answer is less "automate this" and more "please just handle it," that's the other service.
About managementPlatform Migration
Some manual work exists only because the current platform makes it necessary. Moving can remove the problem entirely.
About migrationPlatforms
What each platform makes easy to automate, and where you end up fighting it.
See platformsWhat are you doing by hand right now?
That question is usually enough to start with. If it turns out automation isn't worth it for your volume, we will say so.