Three things go in. Your real numbers come out.
Stemalytics doesn't connect to your point-of-sale system and it doesn't ask you to retype your catalogue. It reads the paperwork you already have.
What goes in
Wholesale invoices
Photograph it, upload a PDF, or import a CSV. Every line is classified into fresh, greens, hard goods, plants or delivery. Vendors are recognised as they appear and build themselves into your supplier list - you never set up a vendor by hand.
Handwritten substitutions get flagged, not guessed. When a line is altered on paper - a substitution, a crossed-out quantity, a price written in over the printed one - Stemalytics marks it for review rather than quietly recording whatever it thought it saw: Check this
Sales export
Whatever your POS exports. You map the columns once and it is remembered. Daily, monthly and annual trends, and holiday windows compared like-for-like - this Valentine's against last Valentine's, not against an average February week.
FloraNext, Hana, FloristWare, Lightspeed, Square - or a spreadsheet you keep yourself.
Monthly P&L
Drop in the statement your bookkeeper sends. Map your expense categories once. Profit against revenue, by month, without re-keying anything.
What comes out
Dashboards
What you paid, what you sold, and what you kept, on the same timeline.
The bench display
Current cost with your markup applied, on a phone or tablet at the design station, so a designer prices from this week's number instead of last spring's.
Benchmarks
Once enough shops are buying the same product, you can see whether your vendor is competitive on it. That comparison needs at least three shops buying the same item before it will show anything at all - a threshold that exists so no shop's buying can be identified from it. At launch, with one shop, it shows nothing. It is the reason the founding cohort matters.
Not enough data yet
What it costs you in time
In the shop Stemalytics was built from, three years of buying came to 207 invoices - between one and two a week, about eleven lines each. At the measured rule accuracy, fewer than one line a week needs a human look.
So: expect roughly fifteen minutes a week once your vendors are set up. That is an estimate from one shop's volume, not an average across customers - we will publish a real one when we have enough shops to measure it.