Stokk vs spreadsheets
The spreadsheet got you here. It won’t get you further.
A spreadsheet works while one buyer can hold every store, supplier and season in their head. Add a store, a few hundred items and a Christmas range, and it stops being the answer and starts being the bottleneck.
01Side by side
What the sheet does, and what it can’t.
| What you need | A spreadsheet | Stokk |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh numbers every morning | When someone updates it | Every night, automatically |
| Each store sized on its own sales | If the buyer has time | Always |
| Days out of stock left out of demand | No | |
| Seasonal lines bought for the season | From memory | From last year’s months |
| Orders drafted, rounded to the pack | By hand | Every supplier, every night |
| A reason behind every number | In the buyer’s head | Why this qty, on every line |
| When the buyer is on holiday | Ordering stops | The Morning Brief is still there |
| Supplier quirks written down | In someone’s email | In the supplier file, read on every check |
| Counting, picking, loyalty, training | Separate tools or none | Built in |
02When it’s time
Three signs the sheet has stopped paying for itself.
- 01
A best seller ran out last weekend.
And you found out on Monday. Stokk checks every night whether stock will last until the next delivery, and puts the supplier on the board when it won’t. - 02
The buyer is the bottleneck.
When they’re on holiday ordering stops, and when they leave, years of supplier knowledge walk out with them. - 03
Cash keeps creeping into stock.
Too much in one store, too little in another, and nobody has the time to work out where it should go.
03What the switch looks like
Keep the sheet for everything else.
- Step 1
Connect
We connect your ERP and bring in your sales history, stock and suppliers.
- Step 2
Check
Stokk drafts the first Morning Brief on your data. Compare it with your sheet.
- Step 3
Order
When the drafts look like how you’d order, order from Stokk.
- Step 4
Export
Still love a spreadsheet? Export any grid or order sheet whenever you want one.
08:00, any morning
Stop ordering from a spreadsheet.
Half an hour on a working sample: the Morning Brief, an order, and where your sheet’s formulas went. If Stokk isn’t right for your shop, we’ll say so.