The Budget Spared Warehouses — Fuel and Labour Costs Didn’t Chancellor John Healey has reportedly ruled out further taxes on large warehouses ahead of his 28 October Budget, following warnings from major retailers that the proposal misunderstood how high streets actually work. For retailers running distribution-heavy operations, that is a genuine relief: one less unpredictable […]
When you work with Stok.ly, you work with the people who built it. Our platform is designed and engineered in-house, our customers are onboarded and supported by in-house team. The six people you’ll meet below bring almost 100 years of combined experience across retail, wholesale, ecommerce, finance, software and operations. Leadership: Iain Coplans, Co-Founder and […]
Why growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses need operational control, not just inventory accuracyRetail and wholesale businesses have spent the last several years fixing a real problem: knowing what stock they actually have. Barcode scanning, cycle counting and AI-assisted reconciliation have closed a lot of that gap, and for most growing operations, “does the system […]
Our CEO, Iain Coplans, wrote recently about why now isn’t the moment to change systems before peak on LinkedIn. This is the analytical version of that argument: what the peak-season visibility gap actually is, why it recurs so predictably, and what the correct response is once it’s named properly. The observation Every year, growing retail […]
As we are all aware, Shopify has confirmed that Stocky, its native inventory forecasting app, retires on 31 August 2026. Shopify’s own migration guidance points merchants to the built-in inventory tools in Shopify admin and Shopify POS. Does any of this describe your situation? You’ve relied on Stocky for reorder suggestions and now need a […]