Fifty brands, one price sheet you can actually trust.
A chain of stores, a shop with many brands, a wholesaler, a distributor, a sales agency. You carry other people’s products, and the whole job is knowing what each one costs you today and what it should sell for in every store and channel by tonight.
Fifty suppliers do not raise their prices on the same day.
They raise them one at a time, by email, in a PDF, in a currency that is not yours. Every one of those emails is a day of re-typing somewhere in your business — or a month of selling below cost because nobody got to it.
You find out you sold below cost
A supplier raised their price in March and one channel kept the old one until June. Nobody was careless — there were fifty brands and one afternoon.
Every channel wants its own sheet
Your shop, the marketplace, the wholesale buyers, the sales agents. The same product priced five ways, maintained five times, agreeing on nothing.
Nobody can answer what you make on it
The margin lives in a formula in a file, and the file is a version behind the invoice. So the question gets answered from memory.
You maintain one number. The rest are calculated.
Your main price list holds what you actually paid, or what the brand recommends. Every other list is calculated from it by a rule you can read: one per channel, per currency, per customer, with the rounding you really use.
- 01Sizes and colors down, price lists across.
- 02A green dot means the price follows its rule.
- 03Click any dot to see why it is that price.
The rule holds the intent. The numbers just follow it.
A rule can sit on a whole brand, a category, a supplier or one product, and the most specific one wins. That is how a fifty-brand catalog gets repriced by four people without anybody opening a formula.
Somebody else’s product codes, made into yours.
Every supplier numbers things their own way, and half of them change it without telling you. Their code stays on the product so a reorder still matches, and your own product code is what your channels and your invoices use.
See which items hold your money.
With fifty brands, a few lines carry the stock value. The ABC report ranks every item so you know where to look first.
- 01A few items hold most of the money.
- 02Each class gets its own rule: count, review or keep simple.
- 03Switch between materials and finished goods.
Three businesses, the same problem.
You buy and you sell
A shop, an online store or several stores, carrying dozens of brands you do not own.
You buy and you supply
You import or hold stock and sell it on to shops on their own terms.
You sell what you never hold
A sales agency or a representative working a territory on commission.
Fifty brands is one tier and a few add-ons.
Retailer carries twenty-five brands, twenty-five galleries, ten channels, ten team members and ten thousand products, each size and color counted. Brands beyond that come by add-on, so a fifty-brand catalog is one predictable line on an invoice rather than a negotiation.