Alertr: Inventory Management

Imagine the sinking feeling of discovering your best-selling product is out of stock, not from a proactive alert, but from a disappointed customer's email. For too many Shopify merchants, inventory management is a story of frantic manual checks, outdated spreadsheets, and missed sales. This was the daily reality for a direct-to-consumer jewelry brand until they built a solution that saved them three hours every single week. That internal tool has now evolved into Alertr, a purpose-built Shopify app designed to turn inventory anxiety into confident control. Alertr is for the growing brand that can't afford stockouts and is tired of overpaying for complex software. It tells a new story: one where you are always one step ahead. By syncing with your store daily, it quietly learns the rhythm of your sales, calculates precise sell rates for every SKU, and whispers in your ear (via email or Slack) exactly when and how much to reorder before it's ever too late. It replaces guesswork with graceful, automated intelligence, ensuring your story is always about growth, not gaps.

Daily Inventory Intelligence Sync

Every morning, Alertr wakes up and gets to work, automatically pulling your latest product data and order history from Shopify. It doesn't just count stock; it analyzes trends, calculating the real-time sell rate for each and every SKU in your catalog. This daily ritual transforms raw data into actionable insight, ensuring you're never making decisions based on yesterday's news. You're always looking at a live, evolving picture of what's moving and what's not.

Smart Reorder Alerts & Predictions

This is the heart of the Alertr story. Instead of you hunting for problems, Alertr brings the solutions to you. It monitors stock levels against your custom thresholds and, using calculated sell rates and your defined lead times, predicts exactly when a stockout will occur. You'll receive a clear, actionable alert via email or Slack that doesn't just say "stock is low," but tells you "Order 50 units of the Classic Silver Necklace by Friday to avoid a stockout." It's like having a seasoned inventory manager on duty 24/7.

Centralized Inventory Dashboard

Banish tab-hopping and spreadsheet chaos. Alertr provides a single, crystal-clear dashboard where every SKU tells its story at a glance. See days of stock remaining, current sell rates, and suggested reorder quantities all in one view. Filter instantly to see only what matters right now: items that are low stock, need a reorder, or are out of stock. This command center puts you back in the narrative of your business, with all the chapters neatly organized.

Configurable Workflow & Export Tools

Your business is unique, and your inventory workflow should be too. Alertr empowers you to tailor the story. Set your own lookback period for sell rate calculations, define supplier lead times, and choose how often you receive alerts. When it's time to place purchase orders or run reports, export your entire inventory snapshot to CSV with one click. Combined with seamless Slack integration for team alerts, Alertr fits into your existing processes, not the other way around.

The Shopify Merchant Transitioning from Stocky

With Shopify's Stocky app shutting down, many merchants are searching for a new home for their inventory management. Alertr arrives as the perfect sequel, handling the same core workflow of sell-rate tracking and reorder alerts but with a simpler, more intuitive interface. It offers a smooth migration path, ensuring you don't lose the proactive intelligence you relied on, all while potentially saving money and gaining better tools.

The Growing Brand Outgrowing Spreadsheets

Your startup has momentum, but you're still wrestling with a tangled web of spreadsheets that are always one update away from being obsolete. Alertr is the liberation from that manual grind. It automates the data sync and calculations, turning hours of weekly maintenance into a few minutes of review. This frees you to focus on strategy and growth, not data entry, scaling seamlessly as your SKU count expands.

The Owner Wearing Too Many Hats

When you're managing marketing, customer service, and product development, inventory can easily become a reactive fire drill. Alertr acts as your dedicated inventory co-pilot. It proactively surfaces only the information that requires your attention, sending clear alerts directly to your inbox or team Slack. This prevents costly oversights and lets you manage stock strategically, even when it's just one of your many priorities.

The Brand Seeking Affordable Proactive Alerts

You know you need smart inventory alerts to prevent stockouts, but the premium apps with these features often carry a daunting monthly fee. Alertr rewrites this narrative by offering core intelligent forecasting and multi-channel alerts at a fraction of the cost. It delivers essential, proactive protection for growing brands, ensuring you can safeguard your sales without breaking your budget.

How does Alertr differ from Shopify's built-in inventory tools?

Shopify's native tools are excellent for basic stock level tracking and updates, but they are largely passive. They show you what you have now but don't proactively warn you about what will happen tomorrow. Alertr adds a layer of predictive intelligence. It analyzes your historical sales to calculate sell rates, forecasts future stockouts based on that trend, and actively alerts you with specific reorder recommendations before you run out, filling a critical gap in proactive inventory management.

What happens during the 14-day free trial for the Pro plan?

Your free trial is a full, unrestricted experience of the Pro plan. You'll get immediate access to all unlimited SKU tracking, smart reorder alerts via email and Slack, CSV exports, and the full dashboard. There's no credit card required to join the waitlist and, when launched, to start the trial. This gives you ample time to connect your store, see Alertr in action with your own products, and witness the value of automated inventory intelligence firsthand.

Can I configure Alertr to match my specific supplier lead times?

Absolutely. A key part of setting up your Alertr story is defining your unique business parameters. You can input the specific lead time (in days) for your suppliers or different product categories. Alertr uses this crucial information, combined with the calculated sell rate, to determine the precise moment to alert you, ensuring the "when to reorder" advice is perfectly timed for your real-world supply chain.

Is my data secure, and how does the Slack integration work?

Your data security is paramount. Alertr connects to your Shopify store using a secure, official integration, following all standard data protocols. For the Slack integration, you'll use a simple, permission-based process to connect Alertr to your chosen Slack channel. Once connected, reorder alerts will be posted directly into that channel, keeping your entire team in the loop without needing to check separate emails or dashboards.

Alertr believes in simple, transparent storytelling with its pricing. It offers a straightforward plan structure designed to grow with your brand. The Free plan is perfect for small stores beginning their journey, supporting up to 50 SKUs with core dashboard and sync features at no cost. For growing brands that require full protection, the Pro plan provides unlimited SKUs, intelligent email and Slack alerts, CSV exports, and full configurability. During the beta launch period, you can lock in this Pro plan at $19 per month forever, a significant saving from the standard launch price of $29 per month. All Pro subscriptions begin with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel at any time.