Stock & Inventory Alerts · NZ Wholesalers
Stock alerts that actually get acted on — aware of how fast things sell and how long suppliers take, routed to the right person where they'll see them, and ready to draft the PO. For NZ wholesale and distribution.
Stockouts and overstock both cost you — one loses the sale, the other parks your cash on a shelf. And the information to prevent both is already sitting in Cin7.
The trouble is that nobody's watching it in real time. So you find out you're low when a customer's order can't be filled, and you find out you over-ordered when a line's been gathering dust for six months. Neither needed to happen.
Cin7 has reorder points — and they help, but they're a single static number. A reorder point doesn't know that this SKU suddenly started selling three times faster, or that this supplier takes six weeks not two, or that summer's coming. And a reorder report only helps if someone remembers to open it.
The alert that actually saves you is the one that understands the trend, accounts for the real lead time, and turns up in front of the right person without being asked. That's the gap between "there's a number in Cin7" and "we didn't stock out."
Honest version: if your range is small and steady, Cin7's reorder points might genuinely be all you need — and I'll tell you so. This earns its keep when you've got real SKU count, demand that moves around, or suppliers with long or unreliable lead times.
Watch the signal that matters.
Not just "below X," but sell-through rate, days of cover left, and the supplier's actual lead time.
Alert on the real conditions.
Low cover on a fast mover, a sudden spike in demand, a line that'll stock out before the next delivery lands, or dead stock that isn't moving at all.
Put it where it'll be seen.
Slack, email or text, to the person who owns that category — not buried in a report nobody opens.
Optionally, draft the PO.
Pre-fill a purchase order in Cin7, ready for a human to check and send, so the alert leads straight to the fix instead of just being bad news.
Honest version: the person still decides. This flags and prepares — it doesn't blindly order stock on your behalf. You want human judgment on a purchase order, and this is built to support that, not replace it.
Most of what I automate saves time. This one saves time and something harder to put a number on: the sales you don't lose when a fast mover doesn't run dry, and the cash you don't tie up in stock that isn't shifting.
The calculator covers the time side — the manual stock-checking and report-wrangling someone does now. The bigger win is the stockout that simply doesn't happen.
Work out the time side in 30 seconds — plug your hours and hourly rate into the calculator.
Open the calculator →A distributor with a few thousand SKUs kept stocking out on its fast movers while overstocking the slow ones — the reorder report wasn't getting opened. We set up velocity- and lead-time-aware alerts straight to the buyer's Slack, each with a draft PO attached. Stockouts on the key lines dropped, and dead stock started getting spotted while there was still time to do something about it.
Step 1
From $750 — credited toward the build
I look at your range, your demand patterns and your suppliers, and work out which alerts are worth setting up. Fixed fee. You walk away with a plan whether or not you go further.
Step 2
$4,000–$12,000 fixed price
I build the alerting on top of your Cin7 data. Scoped from the audit, fixed price, no surprises.
Step 3
From $400/month · cancel any time
I tune the signals as your range and suppliers change, so the alerts stay useful instead of becoming noise. Month-to-month — no lock-in.
The TimeBack Guarantee
If the build hasn't cut the time on these tasks — the manual stock-watching and report-chasing — to under 20% of what you spend today within 3 months, I refund the audit fee in full, on top of it already being credited toward the build.
The audit sets the baseline first, so the guarantee is tied to exactly what we scoped.
You're a wholesale or distribution business running Cin7 with a meaningful SKU range.
You've had stockouts that weren't caught until a customer order couldn't be filled.
Demand varies by season, trend, or customer mix — static reorder points aren't keeping up.
Someone checks stock manually on a schedule, or the reorder report doesn't get opened.
Not sure if your range is a good fit? The free call sorts that out in 15 minutes.
Yes, static ones. This is trend- and lead-time-aware, and — the important bit — it actually lands in front of someone instead of waiting in a report.
Slack, email or text, routed to the person who owns that category. The whole point is that the right person sees it at the right time.
No. By default it drafts a PO in Cin7 for a person to check and send. You keep judgment on what gets bought.
That's exactly when static reorder points fail and this helps. We tune the signals to your actual patterns rather than a single fixed number.
See what the manual stock-watching is costing — then decide.
Timeback Systems Ltd · gettimeback.co.nz · The audit fee is credited toward your build — and refunded if these tasks aren't cut to under 20% of today's time within 3 months.