Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
Design + build + deploy · kickoff in 24h · limited slots
Ship It Live · inventory sprint
Stock you can actually trust, in 21 days.
One number for what you actually have, in every location, updated by the people moving it rather than by someone retyping a note.
Quick answer
A custom inventory management app can be built and in use in 21 days from a fixed $1,999, covering products and variants, stock levels across locations, movements in and out, barcode scanning on a phone, low-stock alerts and reporting. Full accounting and manufacturing planning are separate systems.
The plan
Day one to day 21, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Map the reality
How stock actually moves through your business, including the undocumented steps. The gap between the official process and the real one is where inventory systems die.
- 2
Days 4–9
Design
The receive, pick and count screens first — used daily, on a phone, often by someone in a hurry. Then reporting and admin.
- 3
Days 10–16
Build
Products, locations, movements, scanning and alerts. Your real catalogue imported during the build so counts are tested against real SKUs.
- 4
Days 17–19
Count in parallel
Your team runs it alongside the current process for a few days. Discrepancies surface immediately, which is the point.
- 5
Days 20–21
Cut over
Opening balances set, team trained, and the spreadsheet retired.
What from $1,999 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Retailers and wholesalers whose stock figure is a monthly guess
Businesses with several locations and no shared view of any of them
Teams paying per seat for a system that fits half their process
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
The stock figure is a monthly guess
A retailer or wholesaler reconciles inventory manually on a rough monthly cycle, meaning the 'current stock' number is frequently just an estimate somewhere between counts.
Stock levels update from real movements as they happen, with barcode scanning on a phone replacing manual counting and guesswork.
Situation 2
Several locations, no shared view of any of them
A business with multiple sites has no single system showing stock across locations, so knowing what's actually available anywhere requires calling each site individually.
Stock levels per location, with transfers between them, give one shared view instead of a round of phone calls.
Situation 3
Paying per seat for a system that fits half the process
An off-the-shelf inventory tool covers roughly half of the business's actual workflow, forcing manual workarounds for the rest while the subscription bill keeps growing with headcount.
A system built around the actual process, with no per-user or per-location fees afterward, replaces the workaround entirely.
Situation 4
No barcode scanners, assumed that was required
A business has held off digitizing inventory because they assumed it required investing in dedicated barcode scanning hardware.
Phone cameras scan well enough for almost every operation, removing the hardware cost that usually stalls projects like this before they start.
Situation 5
Stock counts don't survive a warehouse with no signal
A previous inventory system required constant connectivity, making it unreliable in warehouse areas with notoriously bad reception.
Scanning and counting work offline and sync once signal returns — necessary because warehouses are dead zones and an online-only system gets abandoned fast.
The honest part
When 21 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Full accounting integration with cost of goods and journal entries. Valuation reporting fits; being your ledger does not.
Manufacturing resource planning — bills of materials, production scheduling, capacity. A different system and a much larger one.
Warehouse automation, robotics or conveyor integration, which is an industrial project.
Inside the 21 days
- Products, variants, SKUs, barcodes and supplier details
- Stock levels per location, with transfers between them
- Movements in and out, each with a reason and a person attached
- Barcode scanning using a phone camera — no dedicated hardware needed
- Low-stock alerts and reorder points you set yourself
- Stock counts and reconciliation, with variances recorded not overwritten
- Reporting: valuation, movement history, slow and fast movers
- Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Full accounting integration with cost of goods and journal entries. Valuation reporting fits; being your ledger does not.
- Manufacturing resource planning — bills of materials, production scheduling, capacity. A different system and a much larger one.
- Warehouse automation, robotics or conveyor integration, which is an industrial project.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
If one fits, use it, and I will say so. Custom wins when your process has steps no product supports, when per-seat and per-location fees have outgrown a build, or when inventory has to join up with systems you already own.
Other sprints
21 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.