Stokk vs spreadsheets
Excel held together your retail. Until it didn't.
Spreadsheets work when one buyer can hold the network in their head. Add stores, add SKUs, add seasons — and the spreadsheet stops being the answer and starts being the bottleneck.
The honest comparison
What spreadsheets do well. What they don't.
| Capability | Spreadsheets | Stokk |
|---|---|---|
| Daily forecast refresh | ||
| Per-store sizing | If your buyer has time | Always |
| Cover horizon math | Often missing | Per-supplier, per-cycle |
| Lateral transfer suggestions | ||
| Audit trail of decisions | In someone's email | Versioned, replayable |
| Team continuity if your buyer leaves | Crisis | Captured in SIFs |
| Onboarding new staff | Months | A morning |
| Counting / fulfilment / loyalty | Separate tools or none | Built in |
When to upgrade
Three signals that the spreadsheet has stopped paying for itself.
You stocked out on a hero SKU last weekend
And you didn't know until Monday afternoon when sales reported it. Stokk would have flagged the cover horizon eight days earlier.
Your buyer is the bottleneck
When the buyer is on holiday, ordering stops. When the buyer leaves, three months of tribal knowledge leaves with them.
Working capital keeps creeping up
Overstock at one store, stockout at another, and nobody has the spreadsheet bandwidth to lateral-transfer between them.
Stop ordering from a spreadsheet.
Ship the same orders, with reasoning attached. Live in two weeks.