Industry · apparel, fashion and homewaresfig. 00 · where you are now

Every size, colour, season and channel. One version of the truth.

From apparel to furniture and lighting, the pattern is the same: a beautiful product range, a size and colour matrix that multiplies into thousands of SKUs, and wholesale, retail and DTC channels that each believe a different stock figure. We set Cin7 Core up so they all see the same one.

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In the boxfig. 01 · standard fit

A standard apparel and homewares implementation covers all of this.

Around 80% of getting a product business live on Cin7 Core is the same well-trodden path, and we have it down to a repeatable process. The industry-specific pieces below are part of that standard, not extras.

01Variants without the chaosSizes, colours and finishes managed as product families, so a style is one thing to buy and report on, and a thousand SKUs only when it needs to be.
02Seasons, pre-orders and backordersSeasonal ranges bought and launched on a calendar, pre-orders taken before stock lands, and backorders that release automatically when it does.
03Wholesale alongside DTCTrade customers with price tiers, terms and their own catalogue view, Shopify or WooCommerce for DTC, one stock pool underneath both.
043PL when you outgrow the garageClean connections to your fulfilment partner, so orders flow out and stock movements flow back without a human rekeying either.
05Margins by style and seasonLanded costs, including freight and duty, allocated properly, so you know which styles and which channels actually make you money.
06Accounting that reconcilesXero or QuickBooks connected properly, A2X where your channels need it, and a month-end that closes without a fight.

How it runsfig. 02 · the path

A well-trodden path from spreadsheets to go-live.

Scope
We map how your business really works: ranges, channels, suppliers, the lot. You talk, we translate it into Cin7 Core terms.
Build
Your data cleaned and imported, the system configured around your workflows, integrations connected and tested.
Train
Your team learns the day-to-day on your own data, not a demo account. You come away running it, not depending on us.
Go live
Opening stock counted and loaded, first orders through the system, and us on hand while it beds in.

Examples of how we have helpedfig. 03 · the log

The journey, not just the go-live.

An implementation is where the relationship starts, not where it ends. Here is a real client journey from first setup through the projects that followed, and what changed in their business along the way.

BLK Box Fitness

Belfast, UK · own-brand gym equipment and full gym fit-outs, sold worldwide

Equipment & durable goodseCommerceWholesaleRetail

Own-brand gym equipment sold online, on premises and direct to gyms worldwide, plus complete gym fit-outs. Their stack of three separate tools worked until they needed it to do something new, and then it could not.

BeforeXero + TradeGecko + Trello, three tools that stopped keeping up
Now runsCin7 Core + Xero + Shopify
In the boxProduct families and variants, three sales channels on one stock pool

The journey

Scoping the gap the start

Worked with the managing director to map the distance between what their tools did and what the business needed next.

Overnight migration go-live

Planned, trained and tested until the whole migration could run overnight. No downtime; customers never noticed the switch.

A platform to build on today

Online, showroom and direct sales running from one system, with headroom for whatever the business wants to add next.

0 hrs

Downtime during migration: switched overnight, business as usual

3 → 1

Separate tools replaced by one connected platform

3

Sales channels, online, showroom and direct, on one stock pool

Drawn from published Waypoint client stories.

out of the box · the development off-ramp

A B2B portal? EDI to a retailer? A rule Cin7 Core does not have?

When a requirement falls outside the standard build, we do not squeeze it in and hope. It goes to our development team: scoped honestly, solved before it can slow your implementation down, and built on our evidence-tested map of the Cin7 Core API.

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Designing, making or selling fashion or homewares?

Talk it through with someone who has taken brands like yours onto Cin7 Core before. We will tell you honestly what fits in the box and what a sensible next step looks like.

Questions we will already have answers to

✓ How do we manage a size and colour matrix sanely?
✓ Can wholesale and Shopify share one stock pool?
✓ How do pre-orders and backorders behave?
✓ What does moving to a 3PL actually involve?