First Light is a software engineering team that will empower your organisation to break down technical barriers. We are deeply specialised in solving problems for businesses with inventory.


SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR RETAILERS

We work with you to understand the problems you are facing and deliver solutions that help you save or make more money. 


Custom application development

Communicate data between your systems with a custom integration. Our team has the ability to quickly understand any API and efficiently carry out integrations.


Custom Integrations 

Services

Some of our clients

#### Problem

A multi store, multi channel retailer had staff spending several hours per day creating branch transfers to stores in their ERP for backorders and click and collect orders when out of stock in store.

#### Solution

We created a Shopify/ Cin7 custom application to leverage the native Shopify click and collect functions and behind the scenes automatically create branch transfers in Cin7 (inventory system) when applicable. The result is a saving in 3 hours labour daily and the ability for customers to click and collect (or in store backorder) items from any location.


Click and collect automations

#### Problem

A marketing agency needed a high level view of the performance of multiple Shopify stores.

#### Solution

Using Shopify QL we created queries directly to their clients' stores via a custom application and displayed these results in a Google sheet that is updated several times per day.


Shopify store reporting dashboard

#### Problem

A multi brand ecommerce retailer was investing a lot of time into maintaining lists of competitor pricing and setting prices based on this alongside fluctuating landed costs. 

#### Solution

First Light built a custom application to regularly scrape competitors' websites for pricing benchmarks, we then stored this in a database, applied pricing logic against COGS and automatically adjusted pricing in their ecommerce system (Shopify Plus) based on these rules.






Dynamic pricing engine 

#### Problem 

A merchant using Shiphero as their warehouse management software and inventory management system was unable to accurately measure profitability as Shiphero updates costs of products to the latest purchase order. It also did not factor in a breakdown of associated landed costs to apply to the goods. 

#### Solution 

First Light built a custom application to run the merchants selected cost of goods sold logic (average weight cost of goods sold) every time a purchase order was received and then update this to Shiphero and their ecommerce platform (Shopify Plus). This process also ran when additional costs were incurred after the PO had been received e.g import costs. 






Average weighted costs of goods sold application

#### Problem

Shopify is generally used to sell multiple units of a single product SKU (product variant ID). The surfboard industry operates in a different way where each individual unit is identified (surfboard ID). This causes many problems when trying to sell in a conventional way on Shopify and use Shaperbuddy as the ERP system.

#### Solution

First Light created a custom Shopify application to consolidate individual products and product information into a single surfboard product model page. Stock status is managed to determine if a stock size has stock on hand or if it needs to be made to order. The end result is that the merchant can deliver a conventional ecommerce experience while maintaining an industry specific ERP. 





SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR RETAILERS

Services

Custom application development

Custom Integrations

Some of our clients

Click and collect automations

Shopify store reporting dashboard

Dynamic pricing engine

Average weighted costs of goods sold application

Shaperbuddy/ Shopify integration

Enquire Now To Get Started

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR RETAILERS

Services

Custom application development

Custom Integrations

Some of our clients

Click and collect automations

Shopify store reporting dashboard

Dynamic pricing engine

Average weighted costs of goods sold application

Shaperbuddy/ Shopify integration

Enquire Now To Get Started