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Shopify is the commerce layer for modern retail. Commerce and operations are not the same thing. When a brand runs stores, a warehouse, and an online channel simultaneously, Shopify handles the sale. It does not handle what happens next.

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What Shopify doesn’t do natively.

Intelligent routing

Shopify assigns orders based on basic proximity logic. It doesn’t factor in capacity, stock buffers, customer tags, or product rules.

Safety stock

Shopify shows available inventory. It doesn’t reserve buffer stock per location, which leads to overselling and misallocation.

Capacity management

Shopify has no concept of daily order limits per location. Stores get overwhelmed — manually, or not at all.

Revenue attribution

Online orders fulfilled in-store generate no revenue credit for that location. Store managers have no visibility into their real contribution.

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What this costs your clients.

Stock is misallocated. Stores are underused. Revenue is under-optimized.

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Why the usual fix doesn’t work.

The traditional answer is a standalone OMS. Classic OMS platforms were built before Shopify existed.

6-18 months

Average time to go live with a classic OMS

$100k+

Average setup cost

2 screens

Store staff have to juggle every day
A classic OMS adds a platform your clients’ teams have to learn, switch to, and maintain separately — forever.

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The gap Charlie fills.

Charlie does what Shopify doesn’t — OMS, omnichannel analytics, and in-store operations, all inside the platform your clients’ teams already use. No new tool, no migration, no engineering.
Your clients are already running omnichannel. Their tools just aren’t.

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