Operations & automationThe Lowcountry to Myrtle Beach and beyond

Retail.Sunday night shouldn’t be for figuring out why the bank doesn’t match the register.

Independent retail in a tourism economy is two businesses a year: a summer that nearly kills you with volume and a winter that nearly kills you with bills. The re-keying, the oversells, and the filings cost you most exactly when you have the least time to fix them. I build systems that close the gap.

The proof, live

You will see what it saves.

Every client gets a private portal: what ran, what it saved, and the math behind the number. You will never wonder what you’re paying for. And when something breaks — things break — you see it caught and fixed, not silence.

The dashboard here is sample data. Yours shows your numbers, counted conservatively, with the arithmetic visible.

Everything’s running normally.Sample data
6.9 hrsreclaimed this month — the math behind it, one click away
~76 hrs · ~$3,300 since we started, counted conservatively
POS → books nightlyRan 11:30p · deposit matched
Counter ↔ online inventorySynced hourly · 0 oversells
Reorder drafts from sell-through2 POs ready for review
Caught & fixed
Jul 4Caught an online oversell before the order confirmed.
Jun 22Traced a drawer variance to one shift on one register.
In progressReorder drafts from this week’s sell-through
What eats the week

Sound familiar?

01
The register already knows. QuickBooks gets told by hand.
Sales re-keyed night after night, card deposits landing as one net number that bundles fees and refunds — so the bank never matches the books without hand-tracing the gap.
Common
02
The shelf and the website disagree, in July.
The last one sells at the counter while it sells online, and now you’re writing a “sorry, we’re out” email to the exact customer you waited all winter for.
Common
03
Buying lives in spreadsheets, email threads, and your head.
Winter buying decides the summer: a July stockout of a bestseller is lost forever, and the overbuy sits on the shelf eating cash until May. Receiving against the vendor invoice happens line by line, when it happens.
Common
04
The drawer count, the monthly filing, and the tax-free weekend — one desk.
Seasonal cashiers and multiple shifts multiply the little variances, the sales-tax return is due the 20th, and August’s return has its own special rules. All of it lands on whoever’s already busiest.
Common
“He gave me my Tuesday mornings back.”
— Nobody yet. This space is reserved for my first retail clients, and I intend to earn it.
How it works

Four steps. Clear terms.

  1. A free conversation. Phone or in person. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so and point you to someone better suited.
  2. A paid assessment. I map how your operation actually runs and write down exactly where the time goes. The document is yours to keep either way.
  3. A fixed-price proposal. Defined scope, one price, no hourly meter running.
  4. The build, and after. Built once, to fit your operation exactly. Monitored after hand-off, with a monthly plain-language report of what ran and what it saved. Automations nobody watches break silently; mine don’t.

The longer version, and the work behind it, is on the home page.

Let’s talk

A first conversation,
at no charge.

If something on this page sounded familiar, the next step is a conversation. Write a few sentences about what is going on. I’ll read it before we talk.

By phone
Leave a message and I’ll return your call within a reasonable time — sometimes right away, sometimes a few hours, sometimes the next business day.
By email
Replies within two business days.
Based in
Myrtle Beach, SC
Serving the Lowcountry to Myrtle Beach and beyond — and clients across the country.