An inventory system built around how you actually work.
When stock lives in spreadsheets, or your off-the-shelf inventory tool no longer fits how the business runs, Ignitera Solutions designs and builds the inventory and stock-tracking system that does. Led from the first call to launch by the principal engineer who scoped it.
The first step is a 30-minute call with our principal engineer, at no charge.
- start
- We map how stock moves today: where it's counted, who updates it, what breaks
- scope
- Defined projects, scoped one phase at a time
- build
- Short increments you can see working, test environment first
- review
- Every change read by a senior engineer before it ships
- ownership
- Code, docs and infrastructure transfer to you on full payment
- first_step
- A 30-minute call, at no charge
Signs your inventory has outgrown its tools.
- Stock counts live in a spreadsheet, and the number is only right on the day someone recounts.
- Your inventory app handles the basics, but the real process happens around it, in Excel.
- Nobody can say what's in stock across locations without asking someone to check.
- Reordering depends on one person remembering.
If any of that is familiar, it's worth a conversation about what would actually fix it.
When off-the-shelf stops fitting.
Standard inventory apps work well until the way your business runs stops fitting them. That's usually when one of these shows up.
Your process doesn't fit the app.
Batches, bundles, consignment, custom units or approval steps that standard tools force you to work around.
You've stitched several tools together.
Stock in one place, orders in another, reports rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet every week.
It has to connect with what you already run.
Your accounting, sales channels or internal systems, without someone copying numbers between them.
You want to own it outright.
No per-seat subscription that grows with your team. On full payment, the code, documentation and infrastructure are yours.
Not sure if you've reached that point? That's what the free 30-minute call is for.
Built one phase at a time.
You can stop after any phase and keep what you've paid for.
Frame the problem.
We map how stock moves today, who touches it, and the constraint that's actually costing you. Where a project needs a detailed discovery, it's scoped and priced before it starts.
Decide the shape.
A written technical proposal: how the system fits together, the trade-offs, the cost envelope, and the smallest scope that delivers value. Once it's paid for, it's yours to keep, whoever builds it.
Build in stages.
Short increments you can see working, released to a test environment first. Regular demos as work lands. No big-bang launch.
Leave it documented.
Operating guides, a written record of the key technical decisions, and recorded walkthroughs for your team. Optional retainer for ongoing support.
What an inventory system can include.
Every system is scoped to what discovery finds. These are the pieces most businesses ask about.
Stock levels by location.
One source of truth for what's on hand, where, updated as stock moves in and out.
Movements and history.
Every receipt, transfer, sale and adjustment recorded, so a number can always be traced back.
Reorder points and alerts.
Low-stock warnings based on your own rules, instead of one person's memory.
Reports that come out of the system.
The weekly stock report your team rebuilds by hand, produced from the same data everyone works from.
The problems behind good inventory systems.
Our case studies are data platforms, not inventory systems. The engineering problems overlap: modelling messy data, making it fast to query, and keeping it correct as it changes. Ask about any of them on a call.
Tell us how your stock is tracked today.
Send a few sentences: what you sell or store, how stock is counted and updated now, and what you'd want a system to do instead. We'll set up a 30-minute call with our principal engineer, at no charge. You'll get an honest read on whether a custom system makes sense, and how we'd start if it does.