BonsaiWMS

Journal

Notes on warehouses, inventory and patient software.

What we are learning building Bonsai WMS, written for people running in-house fulfilment.

FeaturedWarehouse 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.

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What quietly breaks

  1. 01The pick stops being reliable
  2. 02You are re-keying orders between tabs
  3. 03Stock stops telling the truth
  4. 04There is no recovery path
Shopify

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.

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Studio

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.

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Inventory

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.

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Flow 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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