For Shopify + Amazon sellers who import
⏳ Shopify's Stocky app shuts down August 31, 2026 — every Stocky merchant needs somewhere to go this year.

Know what every unit really costs.

WhatBox ERP is purchasing, inventory, and true landed cost for Shopify and Amazon sellers — the operations tool and the costing tool in one product, so you finally know what every unit really costs.

Live and running today at erp.thewhatbox.com. Apply for early access, or join the waitlist to hear about public launch instead.

Shipment #SH-118 · True-up
Freight — was
■ Estimated
$500
Freight — actual
■ Confirmed
$620
The category gap

Nobody combines the workflow with the math.

Shopify killed its native Stocky app — delisted February 2026, full shutdown August 31, 2026 — and Stocky only ever had a static, hand-typed cost per variant anyway. Every landed-cost tool on the market is a calculator bolted onto a spreadsheet: it computes a cost but has no purchase orders, no vendors, no receiving. You still run purchasing somewhere else.

WhatBox ERP is both — the operational purchasing workflow Stocky had, plus honest landed-cost accounting Stocky never had.

1

Estimate

A freight quote lands on the shipment. It's marked ■ Estimated — never mistaken for a fact.

2

Invoice

The real forwarder invoice arrives — sometimes weeks later. Add it, and it's marked ■ Confirmed.

3

True-up

One click restates inventory still on the shelf and books the difference on what already sold — with a visible ledger of every adjustment.

Purchasing

Runs like a real ERP, not a spreadsheet.

Vendors, purchase orders, and receiving — the workflow Stocky had, done properly.

  • Vendors with full profiles: address, payment terms, lead times, typed contacts (PO Submission, Accounts Payable, Customer Service…), and an assigned buyer from your team.
  • Purchase orders with a real lifecycle: draft → sent → confirmed → received → closed, with guardrails (can't cancel a PO with received stock, can't send without a rate on foreign currency).
  • A vendor-ready PO PDF — your logo, your company block, terms — previewed in one click and emailed straight to the vendor's PO-submission contact with CC/BCC, from the app. Emailing a draft marks it sent.
  • Receiving built for a warehouse: partial receipts, barcode-wedge-friendly reference field, over-receipt blocked.
  • Made a mistake? Receipts reverse with compensating entries — nothing is ever silently deleted.
  • Shipments as tranches: ship part of a PO now, the rest later — each shipment lands its own freight and duty.
  • Fourteen real cost types curated from actual forwarder invoices: ocean freight, carrier surcharges (GRI/ISPS), documentation, drayage, handling, customs duty, government fees (HMF/MPF — kept separate from duty on purpose), brokerage, disbursement fees, detention/demurrage, accessorials (chassis, driver wait time), insurance, and more.
  • Every cost component picks its own allocation method — by value, quantity, weight, or volume. Allocation is penny-exact: the columns always sum to the invoice. If a method needs data your SKUs don't have, the app refuses and tells you instead of guessing.
  • Late invoices are normal — chassis and wait-time bills arrive weeks after delivery. Add components after receipt and inventory trues up on the spot.
True landed cost — the hero

Every fee has a proper home.

If a freight forwarder has ever billed it, WhatBox ERP knows where it goes.

The true-up workbench

An accountant would sign it.

A freight quote is an estimate; the invoice is a fact. WhatBox ERP never lets one masquerade as the other.

  • Confirm each estimate against the actual invoice — amount, FX, invoice number.
  • Stock still on the shelf gets restated at the true cost; stock already sold books as a period variance.
  • The true-up ledger shows was → actual → delta → restated units → expensed, with document references, every time.
  • A shipment flips to "all confirmed" only when every input on it is.
  • Per-SKU true margin dashboard: your channel price minus what the next unit to sell actually costs — the next FIFO layer, landed.
  • Every cost basis wears its badge — landed, landed-estimated, or static — so nobody mistakes a guess for a fact.
  • Margin/day = margin × sales velocity: what each SKU actually earns you daily, sorted money-makers first.
Margins that mean something

Real margin, not a spreadsheet guess.

Know which SKUs are actually making you money — today, not at tax time.

Forecasting

Honest math, no fabricated forecasts.

Velocity from your real sales — never diluted, never invented.

  • Velocity from your real sales, divided by days actually observed — a SKU selling for ten days isn't diluted across a thirty-day window.
  • Days of cover, lead-time-aware "order by" dates, suggested quantities that net out stock already on open POs so it never double-orders.
  • No sales history says exactly that — never a fabricated forecast. Thin history wears a badge.
  • One click from "order now" to a draft PO.
  • Connect a Shopify store in one OAuth click. Imports products, variants matched by SKU, listing prices, and auto-creates your vendor list.
  • On-demand order sync — sales become ledger entries feeding forecasting and consuming FIFO cost layers (real COGS). First sync backfills 90 days. Idempotent: re-syncing never double-counts.
  • Privacy by architecture: order reads are field-limited to items, dates, and status. Customer names and addresses are never requested — not filtered out, never requested.
Shopify connector — live, Amazon next

One click to connect. Nothing moves without you.

Syncs are on-demand, always — nothing changes your numbers behind your back.

Team, audit & control

History as trustworthy as the numbers.

Every action is logged, attributable, and append-only.

  • Multi-user with email invites and roles: Admin, Purchasing, Receiving, View-only. Deactivation kills sessions in minutes; the last admin can't lock the account out.
  • An audit log of everything: every PO action, receipt, adjustment, true-up, settings change — who, when, what, in plain English, append-only.
  • Stock adjustments with reason codes and employee attribution; a filterable movements ledger — every unit accounted for.
  • Per-user units (lb/in³ or kg/cm³ — always stored metric underneath), company profile with logo, email confirmation, password reset.
Coming soon

What's next

These aren't live yet — they're on the roadmap.

Amazon moduleSoon

Sales + fee ingestion via SP-API — referral, FBA, storage fees — into one unified multi-channel margin view. Standard data tier only; no customer data, by design.

QuickBooks / Xero exportSoon

A COGS journal export straight to your accounting system.

Stocktakes & low-stock alertsSoon

Scheduled stocktakes plus custom trigger alerts when stock breaches a reorder point.

Daily recap emailSoon

What shipped, what trued up, what needs you — every morning.

Dead-net profitability dashboardSoon

Sales minus everything — the real number, not the gross-margin number.

Walmart & TikTok Shop connectorsSoon

The same purchasing and landed-cost math, more sales channels.

Google sign-in + two-factor authSoon

Faster, more secure sign-in for your whole team.

Category contrast

Purchasing and true cost, finally in one place.

No named competitors — just what the category actually looks like today.

Stocky, landed-cost calculators & spreadsheets

  • The app Shopify retired: operations only, gated behind POS Pro, and cost was a single static number you typed in.
  • Landed-cost calculators compute a cost but have no purchase orders, no vendors, no receiving — you still run purchasing somewhere else. Most force one allocation method for everything.
  • Your landed-cost spreadsheet: forgets a fee eventually, mixes units, and never updates your inventory value when the real invoice lands.

WhatBox ERP

  • Everything Stocky did for purchasing — rebuilt, plus the costing Stocky never had.
  • Fourteen real cost types, penny-exact allocation, four allocation methods to choose from per component.
  • Every fee, every time — freight arrives late, inventory trues up automatically, and the ledger shows exactly what changed and why.
  • Cross-sell honesty is a feature: without Landed Cost, margins display marked "static — upgrade for true figures." The nudge is the truth.
Simple pricing

Modular — pay for what you need.

Launch pricing — directional and subject to change. 14-day trial, no charges during beta.

Base ERP

$9–19 / month
  • Purchase orders, vendors, receiving
  • Forecasting & stock
  • Static costs
  • 1 team seat included
Join the waitlist

+ Amazon moduleSoon

$50–150 / month
  • Everything in Landed Cost
  • Amazon sales + fee ingestion
  • Unified multi-channel margin view
  • 3 more team seats included
Join the waitlist

Team seats included with each module; per-seat pricing beyond that TBD. Exact figures are launch-pricing and subject to change.

Beta program

Want in before public launch? Become a beta tester.

We're opening up free early access to a small group of merchants. You'll run WhatBox ERP on your real purchasing and inventory at no cost — in exchange, we'll lean on you for feedback: bugs, rough edges, and the stuff that's confusing before it's obvious to us.

This is early software. Expect some sharp edges, and use it with the caution that implies. If that's a fair trade for free access and a direct line to shape the product, we'd like to hear from you.

Apply for beta access

Also selling through Amazon MCF alongside Shopify?

WhatBox MCF tells you, on every order, whether it's cheaper to ship it yourself or let Amazon ship it — with real dollar figures. Built by the same team.

Meet WhatBox MCF →
WhatBox Built by a merchant,
not a vendor.
Founder story

WhatBox ERP came out of the same container invoices.

WhatBox ERP was built by an operator who runs popcorn and grain brands on Shopify and Amazon, imports by the container, and got tired of freight invoices quietly eating margins his spreadsheet swore he had.

The fourteen cost types weren't brainstormed — they were lifted line-by-line from his own forwarder invoices: chassis fees, trucker wait time at $1.67/minute, a 2.5% fee for the broker fronting the duty. That's the authenticity behind the product: every fee in WhatBox ERP is one that actually showed up on a real bill.

FAQ

Questions merchants ask us

Yes — plus the costing Stocky never had. Stocky's purchasing workflow, rebuilt, with true landed cost and a true-up workbench added on top.

Both — you choose at setup.

Every action is append-only and logged: PO actions, receipts, adjustments, true-ups, settings changes — who, when, what. A COGS export to QuickBooks/Xero is on the roadmap.

Never — architecturally. Order reads are field-limited to items, dates, and status. Customer names and addresses are never requested, not just filtered out.

The Amazon module is in development (sales + fee ingestion via SP-API into one unified margin view). Shopify is live today.

That's normal — add it whenever it arrives and inventory trues up automatically. Stock still on the shelf gets restated; stock already sold books as a variance.

Join the waitlist

Not ready for beta? Hear about public launch instead.

The waitlist is the lower-commitment option — no beta, no rough edges, just an email when WhatBox ERP is publicly available. Want to use it now instead? Apply for beta access.