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Practical guides for small distributors and wholesalers on supplier follow-up, PO tracking, and getting out of spreadsheets.
September 12, 2026
Late guaranteed deliveries, charges billed twice, surcharges that never applied. The carriers credit them if you ask inside a 15-day window. A hand audit for a small distributor, a worked example with dollar amounts, and what TraxRecovery automates.
September 7, 2026
Stocky shut down on August 31, 2026. Purchase orders and transfers survived inside Shopify admin. Reorder forecasting, supplier records and follow-up did not. A practical migration plan for a small merchant.
September 1, 2026
Most sellers worry about the wrong badge. Here's what a stockout actually takes from you, in what order, and how far upstream you have to catch a late PO to stop it.
August 26, 2026 · Customer story
Reyes Restaurant Supply Co. isn't big enough to have someone whose full-time job is chasing suppliers. Here's what closed the gap instead.
August 24, 2026
Six genuinely different kinds of product get sold under the same label. Most bad software decisions come from buying the wrong category, not the wrong vendor.
August 22, 2026
A late supplier will hurt your Amazon business, just usually not through the metric everyone worries about. Here's what actually breaks, and how far upstream you have to catch it.
August 19, 2026 · Product update
A 12-week cash flow forecast built from your own PO and invoice data, plus reorder timing that gets pulled earlier for suppliers who run late. Watch the 90-second overview.
August 16, 2026
The supplier who replies fastest isn't automatically the reliable one. Here's how to build a scorecard that catches the difference.
August 9, 2026
If you're still tracking purchase orders in a spreadsheet, you're not doing anything wrong, you just haven't hit the wall yet. Here's what that wall actually costs.
August 2, 2026
Switching too early wastes money on a problem you don't have yet. Switching too late means you've already paid for it. Here's how to tell which side of that line you're on.
July 19, 2026
Most follow-up emails get ignored because they don't give the supplier an easy way to answer. Here's the structure that actually works.
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