Catch stockouts and dead stock before the next purchase order.
StockRun turns your inventory sheet or POS export into a weekly order-risk board: what to buy, what to hold, what to count again, and where cash is quietly trapped.
Validation page only. Early users get a manual CSV review before StockRun becomes software.
order-risk board
486 SKUs · 37 buy now · 22 stale
Buy now
Top-selling candle scent has 8 days of stock; supplier lead time is 14 days
Count again
Ceramic mug shows negative stock after three weekend sales
Do not reorder
Slow-moving refill pack ties up cash; 91 days on hand
Owner note
“Order 2 cases now, count shelf B before buying accessories, and ask supplier if MOQ can mix green + amber variants.”
Narrow customer
Owner-run specialty retail shops with 300–3,000 SKUs, a working inventory sheet, and a POS export they do not fully trust.
Paid problem
Stockouts lose sales, stale inventory traps cash, and wrong reorder decisions burn owner attention every week.
Landing test
Join to test a manual CSV-first order-risk review before StockRun builds POS integrations or a full inventory suite.
Day-in-the-life pain
The supplier order is due. Your stock truth is split across a sheet, a POS export, and memory.
It is Thursday night. The weekend rush is coming, three popular SKUs look low, one shelf count is probably wrong, and the supplier minimum means one bad reorder can lock hundreds of dollars into slow-moving items.
Input
Upload your inventory sheet or POS CSV, plus optional supplier minimums, reorder notes, and a quick count column.
Checks
StockRun flags low-stock sellers, stale SKUs, missing counts, negative inventory, supplier MOQ conflicts, and rows that need a human count before ordering.
Output
A weekly order-risk board: buy now, watch, count again, do not reorder, and questions to send suppliers before cash leaves the business.
Why the current workaround breaks
A spreadsheet stores counts. It does not protect reorder cash.
Sheets are flexible, but they do not automatically know supplier lead times, stale stock, suspicious negative counts, weekend demand, or which row needs a human count before a purchase order goes out.
CSV-first inventory intake
Start with the sheet or export you already trust. The validation version does not require replacing your POS or wiring a live integration.
Low-stock and stale-stock split
Separate the urgent sellers from the slow movers so reorder cash goes to shelves that actually need it.
Supplier-aware reorder notes
Keep minimum order quantity, lead-time, pack-size, and vendor comments next to the SKU decision instead of buried in memory or old emails.
Count-again queue
Identify suspicious rows — zero stock with recent sales, negative counts, missing SKU names, duplicate items — before you place a bad order.
Owner-readable weekly packet
A concise board for the owner or manager: what to buy, what to hold, what to count, and what cash is at risk.
Evidence, not proof
Public threads point to a simple wedge: inventory is still being run from sheets.
These sources do not prove demand. They justify a focused validation question: will specialty retailers share a redacted sheet or POS export to get a weekly order-risk review before buying another inventory system?
Hacker News · inventory spreadsheet default
A commenter framed the desired tool around small businesses like their mother's because the business already knew how to maintain a spreadsheet of inventory.
Hacker News · spreadsheets or overly complex tools
A lightweight inventory launch explicitly targets small business owners managing inventory in spreadsheets or tools that feel too complex for the job.
Hacker News · routine small-business operations
A discussion of business computer systems uses spreadsheet inventory tracking as a normal small-business operating pattern.
Stack Exchange · spreadsheet order-to-invoice workaround
A Web Applications question asks how to turn ordered product rows into invoice rows automatically, showing spreadsheet-based product/order admin leaking into invoicing work.
Objections
Why not just buy inventory software?
We are not replacing your POS
The first test is a preflight review of the export you already have. If that is not valuable, integrations are premature.
Spreadsheets stay useful
StockRun keeps the owner notes, supplier quirks, and manual count habits that make the sheet practical.
The wedge is cash risk
The goal is not prettier inventory. It is avoiding a purchase order that creates a stockout, dead stock, or wasted owner time.
Early users get the human version
Waitlist users receive a manual order-risk review and help define the rules before software hardens around the wrong workflow.