G2 Customer Reviews
What do you like best about Stok.ly – Inventory-Centric Cloud ERP?
“We have gone from a pen and paper warehouse to a completely digital system that has streamlined our business immensely. The customer support has been superb since the day we onboarded with Stok.ly and we continue to build a great relationship with the team.We use Stok.ly daily in our warehouse and have found a number of features to now be invaluable. The ease of integration is incredible and has streamlined tasks within our business ten fold.”
The Real Problem
The real problem is that when you don’t have one operational control platform sitting at the heart of your business, teams are forced to work independently and maintain their own spreadsheets or reports.
Each team is trying to answer a different version of the same operational question from different data sources.
Sales want to know what they can sell today and book for forward orders.
Purchasing needs to understand what demand they need to meet today and against future periods.
The Warehouse asks what needs to be done today.
Customer service needs to knows what has has happened, is happening and is going to happen with certainty to answer customer queries.
Finance needs real time answers on the Cost of Goods Held and the Cost of Goods Sold to calculate accurate margins.
Management needs certainty.
These questions are connected.
They all depend on the same relationship between order demand and stock reality.
When the systems are disconnected, truth fragments by team.
Teams start operating in silos and communication and trust erode.
What Breaks and What This Costs
- Decision-making slows down: Teams cannot act quickly because they first need to agree which data is right.
- Customer answers become inconsistent: Customers may receive different answers depending on which team they speak to.
- Warehouse priorities become unclear: The warehouse may work from one set of priorities while sales or customer service expects another.
- Purchasing decisions become risky: Buyers may rely on stock or demand reports that do not reflect true commitments, inbound stock or transfer state.
- Finance questions the numbers: Finance may not trust stock value, cost, profitability or operational reporting if the underlying workflows are not controlled.
- Management loses confidence: Leaders see reports but still need people to explain what is actually happening.
Why Current Systems or Workarounds Fail
Spreadsheets create team-specific truth
One team’s spreadsheet may answer its immediate question but create reconciliation work for everyone else.
Spreadsheet reports and pivot tables are often explanation layers, not control layers
Spreadsheets can explain what happened, but it does not control the stock, order and warehouse workflows that caused it.
Departmental tools optimise locally
Ecommerce, POS, WMS, finance and inventory tools may each improve one area while leaving the whole operation fragmented.
Manual reconciliation hides the root cause
Reconciliation helps teams agree temporarily, but it does not fix why the system failed to provide one answer.
If you recognise the above in your business, you are not alone.
These issues often form the compelling reasons why companies start searching for software like Stok.ly.
If gaining Operational Control is a priority for your business, implementing Stok.ly which offers your teams one source of the truth on a collaborative, cloud platform can be the solution.
Order management and inventory ERP software for growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses.
What Stok.ly Is
Stok.ly is order management-led, inventory-centric ERP for growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses.
It connects order demand, stock reality, warehouse execution, transfers, purchasing, fulfilment, finance-relevant visibility and reporting into one operational control layer.
How Stok.ly Solves the Problem
Stok.ly helps bring operational truth back into the system.
Stok.ly connects your inventory, available-to-sell logic, pre-allocation, stock transfer traceability, warehouse execution, order processing and operational reporting across your teams and departments.
Teams can work from the same control layer rather than rebuilding truth in departmental spreadsheets, reports and workarounds.
Stok.ly Capability Pathway
The primary pathway is:
inventory state governance → unified order visibility → pe-allocation and availability control → warehouse and transfer traceability → operational intelligence → audit-linked reporting and team-wide visibility.
This connects each team’s view back to the same operational truth on one collaborative platform.
Stok.ly’s Matrix for Creating One Operational Truth
| Capability Name | What It Controls | Customer Pain / Problem Addressed | Operational or Commercial Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-Time Multi-Location Inventory State Control | Stock states across locations, channels and operational workflows | Teams disagree because each system shows stock differently | Creates a shared stock truth across departments |
| Granular Inventory State Governance | Available, committed, inbound, in-transfer, unavailable and restricted stock states | Different teams interpret the same stock number differently | Improves shared understanding of what stock can actually do |
| Available-to-Sell Engine | True sellable stock after operational constraints and commitments | Sales and operations disagree over what can be promised | Improves customer promise confidence and sales alignment |
| Multi-Layer Allocation Priority Engine | How limited stock is prioritised across customers, orders and channels | Teams manually argue over who gets stock first | Improves allocation control and reduces operational conflict |
| Unified Omnichannel Sales Order Dashboard | Sales order visibility across ecommerce, POS, B2B, marketplaces, sales reps and imports | Orders are spread across systems and teams cannot see demand in one place | Improves order visibility and shared operational prioritisation |
| Transfer-State Inventory Audit Trail | Stock movement from source dispatch to in-transfer status and destination receipt | Warehouse and store teams disagree over where stock is | Improves transfer traceability and location-level trust |
| SKU-Level Transaction Audit Trail | User, date and time-stamped stock transaction history for every SKU | Teams cannot explain what happened to a product or where a discrepancy began | Improves traceability, accountability and investigation |
| Location-Level Transaction Audit Trail | Inventory transaction history by warehouse, store or location | Teams cannot trace what happened at a specific location | Improves location-level accountability and operational confidence |
| Operational Intelligence Control Layer | Power BI reporting layer built on controlled ERP data | Management reports are rebuilt outside the system | Improves reporting from controlled operational truth |
| Plug-and-Play Power BI ERP Data Integration | Real-time ERP data integration into Power BI | Teams depend on manual exports and reporting workarounds | Supports faster reporting from ERP-controlled data |
| Audit-Linked Reporting and Traceability Intelligence | Reporting tied to audit trails and transaction history | Reports cannot be traced back to operational events | Improves trust, auditability and finance confidence |
| Inventory State-Aware Reporting and Availability Intelligence | Reporting aligned to inventory states and availability logic | Reports show numbers but not the operational meaning behind them | Improves stock, availability and fulfilment reporting |
| Allocation-Aware Reporting and Priority Intelligence | Reporting tied to allocation logic, priority and stock commitment | Teams cannot see how stock was prioritised or committed | Improves allocation transparency and shared decision-making |
Trust your stock. Transfer with confidence. Control orders. Fulfill every day like clockwork.
Current Approach vs Stok.ly
| Current approach | What tends to break | Stok.ly approach |
|---|---|---|
| Sales spreadsheet | Sales works from a version of stock that operations may not trust | Use available-to-sell logic and unified order visibility |
| Warehouse task system | Warehouse work is visible, but not always connected to wider order and stock priority | Connect warehouse execution to orders, stock and allocation |
| Finance reports | Finance needs exports and explanations before trusting stock or cost | Use audit-linked reporting and stock valuation visibility |
| Management dashboards built from exports | Leadership sees reports that may not reflect live operational truth | Use operational intelligence from ERP-controlled workflows |
| Customer service manual checking | Customer answers depend on chasing warehouse, sales or operations | Connect order status, stock availability and fulfilment visibility |
What Customers Are Really Saying
“Everyone has a different answer, and we spend too much time deciding which one is right.”
“Sales, warehouse, finance and management should not all need different reports to understand the same operation.”
“We need one version of truth for stock, orders and fulfilment.”
Who This Page Is For
- Growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses with fragmented operational reporting
- Businesses where sales, warehouse, finance and customer service rely on different answers
- Teams using spreadsheets, SQL, exports and manual checks to reconcile truth
- Hybrid B2C and B2B businesses with shared stock across channels and locations
- Leadership teams needing trusted operational visibility across the full order lifecycle
Who This Page Is Not For
This page is not for businesses that only need one static report from one simple system.
It is for businesses where operational truth is split across teams, tools, spreadsheets, reports and manual interpretation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does every team have its own version of the truth?
This usually happens when each team uses different systems, reports or spreadsheets to answer connected operational questions about orders, stock, fulfilment and finance.
How can we create one version of operational truth?
The key is to connect the workflows that create truth: orders, inventory state, stock transfers, warehouse execution, purchasing, fulfilment and reporting.
Can Stok.ly help reduce spreadsheet reporting?
Yes. Stok.ly includes operational intelligence, Power BI ERP data integration, audit-linked reporting and inventory-state-aware reporting capabilities.
Can Stok.ly help finance trust stock reporting?
Yes. Stok.ly connects stock movement, transaction audit trails, inventory state and reporting so finance can trace operational reports back to system events.
How is this different from a dashboard tool?
A dashboard can display data. Stok.ly controls the operational workflows that create the data, then supports reporting from that controlled source.
Final Thought
Multiple reports do not create truth if the underlying operation is fragmented.
Stok.ly helps teams work from one operational control layer for stock, orders, fulfilment and reporting.
Contact Information
All our sales, support and development team are located in Hereford and Cheltenham in the U.K. Please submit the contact form and we will contact you within the same business day.