BuyAhead connects to your store, reads your sales history and answers three questions for every product: how many days of stock are left, when to reorder and how many to buy.
We install with read access only. Writing to your stock is a separate permission you grant later, if you want receiving and stock counts to update Shopify. Customer names, addresses, emails and phone numbers are never read.
The figures above are illustrative and do not belong to a real store.
With competitors setup runs into a week: supplier lists, historical data imports, configuration wizards. Here you see the result first and configure afterwards.
One click. On Shopify's consent screen we ask for read access only — permission to write stock is asked separately, later, and only if you want it.
Your sales history is read, and for every product we work out how many days of stock are left, when to reorder and how many to buy.
It refreshes itself every day. The dashboard answers one question: what do I need to order today?
The formulas we use are textbook inventory management — nothing invented, and every step is shown on screen.
Every product has a "how was this number worked out" breakdown: daily rate, safety stock, reorder point, step by step. Competitors say "AI forecast" and close the box; the moment one number looks wrong, so does the whole tool.
Ordering too little empties the shelf; ordering too much buries your cash in it. Nobody tells you about the second one. We show slow-moving and surplus products together with the money tied up in them.
Pin a product and it jumps to the top. Add your own note: "supplier changed", "a customer asked". Every pin keeps its own colour and the note sits on the product like a tag. Half of a stock decision lives in your head, not in the table.
Product photos in the rows, search by title and SKU, click-to-sort columns, totals and cash tied up at the foot of the list. Most tools look lovely at 50 products and fall apart at 800.
Shopify hands most apps only the last 60 days, so they spend your first months guessing. We were granted full order history access, so we read up to a year of your real sales the day you install — then keep our own archive on top of it.
When stock runs out sales read as zero, but demand was not zero. A tool that counts those days will have you under-ordering forever. We take them out.
We install with read access only, so nothing in your store can change. Writing to stock is a separate permission — you grant it when you want receiving and stock counts to update Shopify, and you can withhold it. Customer names, addresses, emails and phone numbers are never read either way.
Connect the store and the numbers are ready. You see your own figures on the first screen without entering anything; settings come later, if you want them.
Pricing is the open wound of this category: the fee multiplies as sales grow, and the invoices keep coming after you cancel. We do not do that. Both plans are 14 days free, and neither asks for a card to start.