Case Study / Retail & Warehouse · Own Build
A retail & warehouse platform, built to run itself.
Project snapshot
A unified point-of-sale and warehouse management platform for multi-location retailers — sales, purchasing, inventory, and payments in one system, with layered tax compliance across state, county, and city. Client details are kept confidential; the engineering is real.
A Multi-Location Retail & Warehouse Platform
One of our own builds: a full POS and warehouse management platform covering sales, purchasing, inventory, and payments across every location a retailer runs — with native web, iOS, and Android apps, barcode-driven warehouse workflows, and a tax engine that stays accurate across state, county, and city lines. We're keeping the client's name confidential; the work speaks for itself.
Challenge framing
The problem.
Key tensions
- 1 Fragmentation
- 2 Tax complexity
- 3 No real-time view
Multi-location retailers juggle disconnected sales, inventory, and purchasing tools that don't talk to each other. Every state, county, and city can carry different tax rules. And without a real-time view across locations, stock and cash positions are always a few hours behind reality.
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Fragmentation
Separate sales, inventory, and purchasing tools that never fully reconcile.
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Tax complexity
Layered state, county, and city tax rules that have to be right on every single sale.
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No real-time view
Owners making decisions on stock and cash data that's already hours old.
Implementation
The solution.
We delivered a single platform spanning sales, purchasing, inventory, and payments, with native web, iOS, and Android apps kept in lockstep. A layered tax engine applies the correct state, county, and city rules at checkout and in every financial report. Barcode and QR scanning drive warehouse pick-pack workflows, and role-based permissions keep every location's team scoped to what they need.
Unified POS across web and native iOS/Android apps
Real-time inventory sync across every location
Automated purchase orders and supplier management
Layered tax engine (state, county, city) applied at checkout and in reports
Barcode and QR-based warehouse pick-pack workflows
Integrated payments with financial reconciliation
Role-based user permissions across multi-location teams
Real-time reporting and business intelligence dashboards
Where it runs
One data layer behind the web dashboard and the native iOS/Android apps, so a sale, a stock adjustment, or a purchase order shows up everywhere at once — not on the next sync.
What made this hard
Multi-jurisdiction tax engine
Layered state, county, and city tax rules that stay accurate across checkout and financial reports.
Real-time multi-location sync
Keeping inventory and sales consistent across every location without lag or conflicts.
Warehouse workflows
Barcode and QR pick-pack flows built for real warehouse floor conditions, not just a demo.
Native mobile parity
iOS and Android apps that stay in lockstep with the web platform's feature set.
Operating at scale.
Live production outcomes for the platform.
Uptime SLA
Production-grade reliability
Active users
Across multiple retail locations
Support coverage
Faster operations
Cost reduction
Want a platform like this for your operation?
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