Case study · 2026 · Web
Our own product. A modern, real-time warehouse management system that imports any messy spreadsheet in about 90 seconds, runs barcode scanning on any phone, and gives small and mid-sized teams the visibility enterprise WMS users have always priced them out of.
Across ten years of building software for retailers, brands, and operations teams, we kept watching the same problem repeat — small and mid-sized businesses outgrowing spreadsheets but priced out of enterprise WMS. Setup took months, integrations needed consultants, and the data layer was always somebody else's mess.
Stokee — a cloud-native warehouse management system on Cloudflare and Supabase, with an AI-powered article master import that accepts any CSV or XLSX in any shape, mobile barcode scanning that runs on the smartphones the team already owns, a ShadCN-based UI in TypeScript end-to-end, and PostHog instrumentation from day one.
Stokee is the first product we are putting on this page that we built for ourselves. After a decade of shipping software for retailers, brands, and operations teams, we kept running into the same wall: the small and mid-sized businesses we worked with had outgrown spreadsheets, but every “real” warehouse management system on the market was priced, scoped, and implemented for someone three sizes larger. Months of setup. Consultants on retainer. A data layer that always arrived as somebody else’s mess and stayed that way.
We started writing down what a WMS would look like if it took those teams seriously — if “go live” meant minutes instead of months, if barcode scanning ran on the phones the team already owned, and if the article master could be imported from whatever format the previous tool had spat out, not from a clean template that nobody actually has. That’s the brief that turned into Stokee.
Stokee is a cloud-based warehouse management system aimed at SMBs — boutiques to operations with 1,000–10,000+ SKUs, teams of 2 to 16+ people, retail, ecommerce and multi-location warehouses. Real-time stock that everyone sees the same. Movement tracking across receiving, picking, packing, transfers, stocktakes, returns and shipping. Mobile-first scanning. No proprietary hardware. No setup fee. The shape of WMS the rest of the market priced out of reach.
Article master import is where most WMS rollouts die. Real customer files arrive as eight years of accreted spreadsheets — column names in three languages, prices with currency symbols glued to them, decimals as commas in some rows and dots in others, redundant prefixes, duplicate SKUs, free-text notes in the middle of a numeric column. The classic answer is a six-week mapping project run by a consultant.
We answered with AI. Drop any CSV or XLSX into Stokee in any shape, in any language, and the importer detects what each column is — SKU, name, price, stock count, barcode, category — without manual mapping. It strips currency symbols, normalises decimals, removes redundant prefixes, dedupes SKUs, and lands the article master in the database in roughly the time it takes to make a coffee. Messy in, clean out. End-to-end setup is around 90 seconds. That single feature, more than anything else, is the reason the product exists at all.
A WMS that needs proprietary scanners is a WMS half the market won’t buy. Stokee runs a barcode scanning SDK on standard smartphones and tablets — the camera in the phone the team already has becomes the scanner. Scan once, stock updates everywhere, instantly. Receiving, picking, transfers, stocktakes — all the moments when warehouse work actually happens — handled on the device the operator already owns.
The runtime is Cloudflare at the edge — the things that have to be fast (a stock-updated scan, a fresh inventory pull from a tablet on the floor) come back fast no matter where the warehouse is. Supabase sits behind it for storage, the relational database, and authentication, so we get Postgres, row-level security, real-time subscriptions and a managed auth layer in one place. That stack is what lets a team of two people in a small business behave, from the user’s seat, like they’re on the same infrastructure as a much bigger operation.
The whole product is TypeScript. The UI is built on ShadCN components — accessible primitives we’ve extended into a Stokee-flavoured design system. That combination is the difference between a product that ships fast and feels considered, versus one that ships fast and looks it. Every input, every dialog, every keyboard shortcut had to feel like it was built by people who actually use this kind of software.
We wired PostHog in from the very first commit, not “later, when we have time”. Product analytics, session replays, and feature flags inform every iteration — which steps of onboarding stall, which scan flows feel slow, which rooms in the app get less love than they deserve. It’s the discipline a small team needs to keep the product honest as it grows.
Stokee is a product with a long road ahead, and the next stretch of it is already mapped:
A product that proves the point we’ve been making to clients for ten years: SMB software does not have to feel like a downgrade of enterprise software. Stokee is on Cloudflare and Supabase, runs on the phone in the operator’s pocket, imports the spreadsheet they already have in 90 seconds, and gets out of the way. It’s also — and this is the part we’re most proud of — the kind of product we wanted to build for our customers all along, finally built without anyone having to commission it.
You can see the live product at stokee.net.
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