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.”
What does order management-led, inventory-centric ERP mean?
Stok.ly is order management-led because orders are where operational pressure begins. A customer places an order; a wholesale account needs stock; a store needs replenishment; a backorder needs allocation; a partial shipment needs managing; a warehouse team needs to know what to pick. Orders drive the operational question.
Stok.ly is inventory-centric because stock truth determines what the business can actually do. Stock may be available, committed, allocated, backordered, inbound, in transfer, reserved, damaged or already owed to a customer. Until the business can trust that picture, it cannot operate with confidence.
Together, order management-led, inventory-centric ERP means Stok.ly connects sales order demand to inventory reality, then links both to warehouse execution, transfers, purchasing, fulfilment, reporting and B2C/B2B workflows.
The system still works. But only because your team is holding it together.
“Our replenishment process is currently manual, error-prone and time-consuming. Between the three of us, we’ll hopefully gain 70 to 80% of our time back.”
Operations team, multi-channel fashion retail business
Growing inventory-led businesses tend to reach the same point. Orders arrive from more channels. Stock sits across more locations. Transfers start creating uncertainty. Wholesale customers need backorder answers. Purchasing decisions happen in spreadsheets. Reports get rebuilt in pivot tables every week.
The operation keeps moving — but only because experienced people are compensating for what the system cannot show them. Paper in the warehouse. SQL to get a report. Manual allocation across tabs. The system records activity. The team provides the intelligence.
That is the moment Stok.ly is built for.
Nine signs your business has reached this point
- Your team does not fully trust the stock numbers
- Warehouse teams still rely on paper, memory or manual checking
- Transfers between locations create uncertainty about where stock actually is
- Wholesale backorders and partial shipments are tracked in spreadsheets
- Purchasing decisions depend on manual interpretation rather than trusted stock
- Customer service has to chase the warehouse for order updates
- Operational reports are rebuilt in Excel, SQL or Power BI exports each week
- Shopify or ecommerce stock does not reflect operational reality
- Your ERP technically works, but only because people work around it
What we hear when businesses reach this point
"We ended up purchasing something that we already had in the warehouse."
Business type: Scaling ecommerce business, furniture sector
Root cause: No trusted single view of stock across channels and locations. Purchasing decisions were made on incomplete information, leading to duplicate spend and working capital tied up in stock the business already owned.
"That might happen 20 times and then I have 20 individual purchase orders for a single SKU which I then have to consolidate."
Business type: B2B wholesale distributor
Root cause: Backorder logic and demand consolidation were happening outside the system. The team estimated 15 hours of manual reconciliation per week as a direct result.
"Everything is just endless documenting, reporting, downloading, transferring and editing CSVs."
Business type: Multi-channel fashion retail operator
Root cause: Operational truth had moved into spreadsheets. The team was spending 20 or more hours per week rebuilding reports that should have been live inside the system.
"Without the custom portal, nobody can operate in any of our countries, in any of our warehouses. We are hostage to a developer"
Business type: Multi-country retail and wholesale operatorRoot cause: Legacy ERP had become a single point of failure across three countries. Critical operations were dependent on one person’s knowledge of a custom portal built around an ageing Orderwise server based install.
"The main problem is the manual replenishment. It's quite time consuming and error prone."
Business type: Multi-store beauty retail business
Root cause: Replenishment decisions were being calculated manually each week using spreadsheets, with no system logic connecting demand signals, location thresholds and available stock.
"There are a lot of spreadsheets walking around this place"
Business type: Multi-store perfume retail business
Root cause: Demand planning and forecasting is run on spreadsheets outside of the operational platform meaning as the business had grown, it had become time consuming and error prone.
Trust your stock, transfer with confidence, control orders and fulfil every day like clockwork
The core idea: orders create demand, inventory provides truth, warehouses deliver the promise
p>If these three things are connected, the business can operate from one version of truth. If they are disconnected, teams fill the gaps manually — and the gaps get wider as the business grows.
Order management
B2C sales orders, B2B orders, wholesale orders, pre-allocations, backorders, partial shipments and order flow across ecommerce, retail, trade and marketplace channels. Stok.ly helps teams control what can be sold, what can be promised and what the warehouse must do next.
Inventory control and availability
Stock state, availability, committed stock, multi-location stock, inbound stock and stock truth. Not just a count — Stok.ly shows what is available to sell today, what is already allocated, what is in transfer, what is backordered and what is inbound from purchasing or manufacturing.
Transfer management
Stock movement between warehouses, stores and operational locations with full dispatch, in-transit and receipt lifecycle control. Stock does not disappear between locations — it is tracked at every state so teams can transfer with confidence and availability reflects physical reality.
Warehouse management
Goods-in, picking, packing, bin locations, stock movements, returns and dispatch — all connected to live stock and order control. Barcode scanning across goods-in, stock transfers, pick and pack stations. Batch picking, touchless order processing and automated pick creation via the rules engine. Pick error rates below 1%.
B2B and wholesale order management
Trade orders, pre-allocation against purchase orders and manufacturing runs, account and pro-forma workflows, customer-specific pricing, backorders and partial fulfilment. Built for hybrid B2C/B2B operations where the same stock serves different demand types and where trade customers need clear visibility of what has shipped and what remains outstanding.
Purchasing and replenishment
Purchase orders, landed costs, pre-allocation, inbound stock visibility and replenishment decisions driven by trusted inventory, real demand and forward-booked orders. Min/max replenishment rules by location. Automated cascading replenishment logic across transfers, purchasing and manufacturing runs.
Reporting and operational visibility
Dashboards and reports built from the same operational data layer that manages orders, stock, warehouse activity, purchasing and fulfilment. No SQL dependency. No spreadsheet exports. No reports rebuilt on Friday afternoon. Power BI integration with real-time ERP data sync for businesses that need deeper analytical capability.
Manufacturing and kitting
BOMs, kitting, WIP tracking, raw material management and manufacturing workflows. For inventory-led manufacturers where stock transformation affects fulfilment, reporting and available-to-sell stock across channels.
The Stok.ly Operational Control Layer
The Stok.ly operational control layer connects the workflows that determine whether the business can trust stock and fulfil orders with confidence.
- Order demand: Orders from ecommerce, retail, wholesale, trade and B2B customers create demand on the business. Stok.ly helps teams control that demand from order capture through allocation, backorder handling, fulfilment and reporting.
- Stock truth: Stock is not just a number. Stok.ly helps teams understand what stock exists, where it is, what state it is in, what is committed, what is available, what is moving, what is inbound and what can be fulfilled.
- Transfer confidence: Multi-location businesses need to move stock between warehouses, stores and operational locations without creating mistrust. Stok.ly helps teams see what has been requested, moved, received and made available.
- Warehouse execution: Warehouse activity changes stock truth every day. Goods-in, picking, packing, bin movements, dispatch, returns and stock adjustments need to connect to orders and inventory in real time.
- Purchasing and replenishment: Purchasing decisions should be based on trusted stock, real demand, inbound supply and operational need. Stok.ly helps teams buy with better visibility of what the business actually has and needs.
- B2B and wholesale workflows: B2B and wholesale businesses often need trade pricing, account-specific workflows, backorders, partial shipments and customer-specific fulfilment visibility. Stok.ly supports B2C, B2B and hybrid operators.
- Operational reporting: Reporting should not depend on rebuilding truth in spreadsheets or SQL. Stok.ly helps teams report from the same operational control layer that manages orders, stock, warehouses and fulfilment.
How the Platform Fits Together
| Platform area | What it controls | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Order Management | B2C sales orders, B2B orders, wholesale orders, pre-allocations, backorders, partial shipments and order flow | Helps teams control what can be sold, what can be promised and what the warehouse team must do next |
| Inventory Control | Stock state, availability, committed stock, multi-location stock, inbound stock and stock truth | Helps teams trust what stock exists, where it is and what can be used |
| Transfer Management | Stock movement between warehouses, stores and operational locations | Helps businesses transfer with confidence and avoid stock disappearing between locations |
| Warehouse Management | Goods-in, picking, packing, bin locations, stock movements, returns and dispatch workflows | Connects physical warehouse execution to live stock and order control |
| B2B Wholesale | Trade orders, pre-allocation, account & pro-forma workflows, customer-specific pricing, backorders and partial fulfilment | Supports businesses with wholesale, trade and hybrid B2C/B2B operational complexity |
| Purchasing | Forecasting, purchase orders, landed costs, pre-allocation, inbound stock and replenishment decisions | Helps teams buy based on accurate inventory, real-time demand and forward booked demand to minimise stock outs and maximise sales. |
| Reporting | Operational visibility across stock, orders, locations, channels, customers, suppliers, purchasing, transfers, team performance and fulfilment | Reduces dependence on spreadsheet and reporting workarounds – one source of the truth to base your decision making on. |
| Manufacturing and Kitting | BOMs, kitting, WIP, stock transformation, raw material management and manufacturing workflows | Helps businesses schedule manufacturing runs, control stock when products are built, assembled, kitted or transformed into finished goods with yields, reject rates and actual cost per unit calculated at Goods In. |
Order management and inventory ERP software for growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses.
Why Businesses Outgrow Basic Order, Inventory and Warehouse Tools
Basic tools can work well when the operation is simple. But as order volume grows, locations multiply, stock moves more often, wholesale complexity increases and fulfilment expectations rise, separate systems become harder to manage.
- Basic inventory tools may show stock, but not operational stock truth: A stock count does not always explain what is available, committed, allocated, backordered, inbound, in transfer or ready to fulfil.
- Ecommerce platforms can sell, but may not control complex operations: Ecommerce systems are designed to sell online. Growing businesses often need deeper control over stock, orders, locations, transfers, purchasing, warehouse execution and B2B workflows.
- Standalone warehouse tools may not control the wider business: Warehouse systems can improve warehouse activity, but the business also needs a PIM, customer & pricing management, orders, stock, forecasting, purchasing, transfers and reporting to remain connected.
- Legacy ERP may record activity without controlling workflow: Some ERP systems still technically work, but only because people have built workarounds around them. That creates hidden operational risk.
- Spreadsheets and Pivot table reports rebuild truth outside the system: When teams need exports, spreadsheet trackers and custom reports to understand what is happening, operational truth has moved outside the core platform.
Why businesses outgrow what they’re using
Basic tools work well when the operation is simple. As order volume grows, locations multiply, wholesale complexity increases and fulfilment expectations rise, the gaps between disconnected systems become harder to manage manually.
| Current approach | What tends to break | Stok.ly approach |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify or ecommerce platform plus spreadsheets | Ecommerce sells, but stock reality lives in a spreadsheet someone updates manually. Oversells happen. Reconciliation becomes a daily task. | Orders and stock connected in real time. One trusted view for ecommerce, warehouse and finance. |
| Basic inventory tool | Stock count exists but availability, pre-allocation, transfer states and order commitments are unclear. Teams still make decisions on guesswork. | Granular inventory states — available, committed, pre-allocated, in transfer, backordered — all connected to orders and warehouse execution. |
| Standalone warehouse management system | Warehouse activity may improve, but sales orders, product data, pre-allocation and stock truth remain disconnected from warehouse workflows. | Warehouse execution connected to orders, inventory, purchasing, B2B workflows and reporting — not operating in isolation. |
| Legacy ERP | System records activity, but teams have built workarounds around it. SQL for reports. Custom portals for visibility. Institutional knowledge held by one or two people. | Modern cloud operational control. Visibility built into the platform — not maintained in external spreadsheets, SQL queries or custom workarounds. |
| Spreadsheet and SQL reporting | Operational truth is rebuilt outside the system each week. Finance does not trust the numbers. Decisions are made on stale data. | Live operational reporting from the same data layer that manages orders, stock and warehouse activity. |
Trust your stock. Transfer with confidence. Control orders. Fulfill every day like clockwork.
What Stok.ly Helps You Control
What can be sold
Stok.ly helps teams understand what stock is actually available to sell, not just what appears in a simple stock count.
What can be promised
Sales and customer service teams need confidence before promising stock, delivery or fulfilment dates.
What is committed
Stock may already be allocated, reserved, backordered or owed to another customer. Stok.ly helps make that commitment clearer.
What can be transferred
Multi-location businesses need to move stock without losing visibility or creating location-level mistrust.
What can be picked and shipped
Warehouse execution needs to connect to live order and stock control so teams can fulfil reliably.
What needs purchasing
Purchasing should be driven by real demand, trusted stock and inbound supply visibility, not guesswork.
What can be reported on
Leadership, finance and operations need reports that reflect operational truth, not manual reconstruction.
Who Stok.ly Is For
Stok.ly is designed for growing inventory-led businesses where operational complexity has outgrown basic systems.
- Retailers managing ecommerce, stores, warehouses and fulfilment
- Wholesalers managing B2B orders, trade accounts, backorders and partial shipments
- Distribution businesses managing stock across multiple locations
- Hybrid B2C and B2B businesses selling through multiple channels
- Businesses replacing spreadsheets, paper warehouse processes, SQL reports or legacy ERP workarounds
- Inventory-led manufacturers, kitters or assemblers where stock transformation affects fulfilment and reporting
Who Stok.ly Is Not For
Stok.ly is unlikely to be the right fit if you only need a very simple single-location stock list, a basic ecommerce stock counter, or an accounting-only system.
Stok.ly is designed for businesses where orders, stock, warehouses, transfers, purchasing, fulfilment and reporting need to be controlled together.
Common Signs You Need an Operational Control Layer
- Your team does not fully trust stock numbers.
- Warehouse teams still rely on paper, memory or manual checking.
- Transfers between locations create uncertainty.
- Shopify, ecommerce or POS stock does not reflect operational reality.
- Wholesale orders, backorders or partial shipments are hard to manage.
- Purchasing decisions depend on spreadsheets or manual interpretation.
- Customer service has to chase the warehouse for order updates.
- Operational reports are rebuilt in Excel, SQL or external tools.
- Your ERP technically works, but only because people work around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Stok.ly?
Stok.ly is order management-led, inventory-centric ERP software for growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses. It connects orders, stock, warehouses, transfers, purchasing, fulfilment, reporting and B2B operations into one operational control layer.
What does order management-led ERP mean?
Order management-led ERP means the platform starts from order demand and connects that demand to stock, warehouse execution, fulfilment, purchasing and reporting. It helps businesses control what customers want and what the operation can actually deliver.
What does inventory-centric ERP mean?
Inventory-centric ERP means stock truth sits at the centre of the system. Orders, transfers, warehouse activity, purchasing, fulfilment and reporting are all connected to the question of what stock exists, where it is, what state it is in and what can be used.
Is Stok.ly an order management system?
Yes. Stok.ly includes order management functionality for B2C, B2B, wholesale and hybrid businesses. It helps manage order demand, allocation, backorders, partial shipments, fulfilment and operational visibility.
Is Stok.ly inventory management software?
Yes, but Stok.ly goes beyond basic inventory management. It connects inventory control to orders, transfers, warehouse execution, purchasing, fulfilment, reporting and B2B workflows.
Is Stok.ly warehouse management software?
Stok.ly includes warehouse management capabilities, including operational workflows that connect warehouse activity to stock and order control. It is designed to help teams pick, pack, receive, move and dispatch with greater confidence.
Is Stok.ly suitable for wholesale businesses?
Yes. Stok.ly supports wholesale and B2B businesses that need to manage trade orders, backorders, pricing, customer commitments, stock availability and fulfilment workflows.
Can Stok.ly help with stock transfers?
Yes. Stok.ly helps businesses manage stock movement between warehouses, stores and operational locations so teams can transfer with confidence and maintain trusted stock visibility.
Can Stok.ly replace spreadsheets?
Stok.ly helps reduce reliance on spreadsheets by bringing order, stock, transfer, warehouse, purchasing, fulfilment and reporting workflows into one operational control layer.
Who should consider Stok.ly?
Stok.ly is suitable for growing retail, wholesale, distribution and hybrid B2C/B2B businesses where stock, orders, warehouses, transfers, purchasing, fulfilment and reporting need to work together.
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.