The Inventory Planner alternative built into your back-office.
Inventory Planner forecasts demand and drafts purchase orders — but as a separate tool that imports a copy of your sales and pushes POs back out. Retail Commerce OS forecasts and raises POs from the same live stock count, with landed-cost margins and sell-through built into the orders you already run.
Why merchants move off Inventory Planner
- Forecast off the live stock count — not an imported, lagging copy.
- Raise POs from low-stock and forecast alerts, with per-supplier lead times.
- Landed-cost margins (AVCO) plus sell-through and dead-stock, in one place.
- One bill instead of a separate planning subscription that scales with GMV.
- No SKU-count pricing tier to cross as your catalog grows.
Replace Inventory Planner with your back-office.
Inventory Planner forecasts demand and drafts purchase orders — but as a separate tool that imports a copy of your sales and pushes POs back out. Retail Commerce OS forecasts and raises POs from the same live stock count, with landed-cost margins and sell-through built into the orders you already run.
Instead of paying for Inventory Planner as a separate subscription — with its own login and its own copy of your data — Retail Commerce OS builds demand forecasting & purchase orders into the same back-office that already runs your orders, inventory and customers. One bill, one dataset, one source of truth.
Nothing gets ripped out on day one. Retail Commerce OS runs alongside Inventory Planner and the rest of your stack, syncs two-way with Shopify, and lets you export your full dataset at any time — so you switch Inventory Planner off when you're ready, not before.
A fair read on the standalone tool
Inventory Planner is a mature, well-regarded forecasting tool that includes full forecasting and replenishment features across every tier (no gating core functionality behind a higher plan), connects to 30+ integrations beyond just Shopify, and supports genuinely complex multi-location, multi-channel planning at scale.
What it actually costs
Inventory Planner's confirmed Shopify App Store entry tier (Essentials) runs $119.99/month for single-warehouse Shopify-only sellers. Pricing above that scales with GMV and replenishable SKU count rather than user count — unlimited users are included at every tier, but the base fee climbs meaningfully as catalog size and sales volume grow.
Competitor pricing is publicly listed information, researched 2026-07-17, and may have changed since — verify on their site.
Coexist first. Cut over when you're ready.
Live stock and sales history sync in — Inventory Planner keeps forecasting exactly as it does today.
Compare a native forecast against Inventory Planner's on a sample of SKUs before committing.
Move purchase-ordering over once you trust the forecast, with per-supplier lead times carried across.
Frequently asked questions
Does forecasting quality match a mature tool like Inventory Planner?
For most catalog sizes, yes — forecasting runs off the same live stock and order data Inventory Planner would otherwise import as a copy. At very large, complex multi-channel catalogs, Inventory Planner's years of tuning may still have an edge worth evaluating.
Do I need every non-Shopify channel Inventory Planner integrates with?
If you sell heavily on channels beyond Amazon and Flipkart that Inventory Planner supports and this doesn't yet, that's a real gap to check before switching entirely.
What happens to my existing supplier lead-time data?
You'll re-enter or import supplier lead times into the native flow — this is typically a one-time setup step, not an ongoing sync burden.
Is landed cost (AVCO) really included, not an add-on?
Yes — landed-cost margins, sell-through and dead-stock reporting are part of the core inventory module, not a separate paid tier.
How is this cheaper than Inventory Planner as my catalog grows?
Inventory Planner's price climbs with GMV and SKU count; forecasting and PO tools here are part of your flat plan, so catalog growth doesn't trigger a bigger separate bill.
Is my data locked in?
No. You can export your complete workspace — customers, orders and more — in a machine-readable format at any time, and there are no exit fees.
Move Inventory Planner onto your back-office, when you're ready.
Everything else stays running while you switch.