Journal
Notes from building the quiet software.
Thinking out loud about warehouse operations, inventory and the engineering underneath. No growth-hacks — just notes from the work.
- 3 min readWarehouse operations
Why in-house Shopify fulfilment breaks at ~100 orders a day
The spreadsheet-and-good-intentions setup works beautifully — until it doesn't. Here are the four things that quietly break when an in-house Shopify operation crosses ~100 orders a day, and what actually fixes them.
Read→ - 3 min readShopify
Looking for a Veeqo alternative? An honest read for in-house Shopify brands
Veeqo is great at what it does — multichannel shipping on Amazon's rates. But if you're outgrowing it on the warehouse side, here's an honest comparison for Shopify brands that pick and pack in-house.
Read→ - 2 min readStudio
Introducing Bonsai Studio
Why we started a studio to build operational software — the unglamorous systems that quietly run warehouses and fulfillment — and what we're growing first.
Read→ - 2 min readInventory
On-hand, reserved, available: the three numbers behind every oversell
“How many do we have?” is a trick question. The honest answer is three numbers, and confusing them is how warehouses oversell. A short field guide to inventory state in Bonsai WMS.
Read→ - 3 min readFlow engine
Why we model warehouse work as a graph, not a checklist
Real fulfillment is full of branches, retries and dead ends. Here's why Bonsai WMS treats picking and packing as a directed graph — a state machine — instead of a fixed list of steps.
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