Progeny Apps / Orders, stock & the back room / Sluice
For shopify merchants
Holds, splits and routes orders by stock, location and preorder date, without changing any price.
For shops with several locations, backorders or preorders. Open orders are planned oldest first: high fraud risk and bad addresses are held, preorder lines wait for their release date, in-stock lines ship from as few locations as possible, and what is short waits on the earliest purchase order. Each split keeps every price, discount and currency as sold, and nothing is refunded. A board shows what is waiting on what, and flags hand holds where the stock has since arrived. No per-split charge.
On its way to the Shopify App Store. Write to us and we will set your store up first - it is billed through your Shopify bill, like any app.
The problem
One order desk for Shopify: hold, split and route every order by stock, location and preorder date — with no per-split charge, every price and currency kept exactly as sold, and a board that shows what is waiting on what.
It answers what a merchant shipping from more than one place actually asks:
- Should this order ship at all yet (fraud risk, a bad address)?
- What can go now, from which location — and can it go in ONE parcel?
- What is waiting, and on which purchase order or release date?
- What is backordered that nobody has ordered more of?
- Which order have I been sitting on for days when the stock is right there?
What it does
Inside Sluice
open orders by plan (ships now / part ships now / waiting / held), parcels to send, units waiting, every problem in words with a link, and the holds the rules placed.
the open list, oldest first; and each order in detail: its lines as sold, the plan as lanes (ship now from X, waits on PO-118, preorder, backordered), the price proof line by line, and the exact Shopify calls. Per order: ship-together or ship-when-ready, risk, address problem, release a hand hold.
every waiting unit three ways: by purchase order (coming vs promised), by product, by date. Backorders with no PO stand out.
every open order by days sitting, in buckets (0–1, 2–3, 4–7, 8+), amber and red by age, with the next thing to do. An order waiting on a known date is "waiting as planned".
stock per location (type a number and every plan moves), what is left after every order is promised, preorder release dates, purchase orders with ETA and "Mark received".
shop name and currency, the default preference, the stale hold and ageing limits, the "as of" day, look, backup / restore / sample / erase. Records live in this browser under the localStorage key sluice.v1. Save a backup file from Settings now and then. A record that cannot be read is set aside under its own key, never written over.
Pricing
One flat price
No tiers to decode and no share of your sales.
$19 a month
- Holds orders with high fraud risk or a bad address
- Ships from as few locations as possible, in one parcel where it can
- Waits on purchase orders and preorder release dates
- Every split keeps its prices, discounts and currency as sold
- Ageing board flags orders held too long with the stock on hand
Billed through Shopify's own app billing. Cancel by uninstalling. Privacy for this app
Questions
The ones merchants actually ask
Which Shopify plans does it work on?
Works on every Shopify plan.
How am I billed?
$19 a month through Shopify's own app billing, on your normal Shopify bill. No card is taken here and there is no share of your sales.
What happens to my data if I uninstall?
Shopify tells the app the moment you uninstall, and the app erases what it kept for your store. Customer data requests from Shopify are answered the same way. The full detail is on the app's own privacy page.
Is it on the Shopify App Store?
On its way to the Shopify App Store. Write to us and we will set your store up first - it is billed through your Shopify bill, like any app.
Who do I talk to?
A person, at support@progenyapps.com or (541) 208-6685. FHL Stephens LLC, Roseburg, Oregon.
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Holds, splits and routes orders by stock, location and preorder date, without changing any price.