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What is Honey Shelf

Velocity-driven production planning for D2C apparel brands — the six-stage pipeline and the three roles, at a glance.

Honey Shelf tells apparel brands what to produce and when, based on how fast each product actually sells. Instead of reacting to individual orders, it watches your sales velocity and flags products before they run out — then walks the replenishment through a six-stage pipeline from suggestion to stock in your store.

The pipeline

StageWhat happens
1 — Stock & DemandSales velocity, days of stock remaining, and suggested order quantities per product
2 — Production OrdersReview and approve suggestions; approving reserves raw materials per the BOM
3 — Buy MaterialsPurchase orders for material shortfalls, with approval limits and supplier PDFs
4 — Receive GoodsRecord deliveries against POs, quality-check them, return rejects
5 — ProduceWork orders consume reserved materials; QC lots record inspection results
6 — Release to StoreShip approved stock: finished-goods inventory updates and pushes to Shopify

The three roles

RoleWho this usually isIn short
AdminOwner or founderEverything, including team, integrations, approvals, and billing
Production leadFactory floor manager and buyerFull pipeline and catalogue; no team/billing/integration settings
QC managerQuality controlFull visibility; acts on receiving and QC; view-only elsewhere; no access to Buy Materials

Notifications

The bell in the top navigation collects your in-app notifications: purchase-order approval requests and outcomes, goods receipts, stockout alerts, integration issues, and anomaly alerts. Clicking a notification takes you to the screen it concerns; "View all" opens the full list. Notifications are personal — each teammate sees their own. Email delivery is separate: most operational events arrive in the twice-daily digest, configurable in Settings → Notifications.

Known design choices, stated plainly: inventory is one company-wide pool (no per-warehouse breakdown), each organisation operates in a single currency chosen at signup, and sales come from your D2C channels (Shopify, or your OMS for multi-channel sellers) — there is no wholesale order management.

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