Our own hardware store: the reference implementation

Zilware operates a real retail hardware store. It is where every recommendation we make gets tested first, on our own money.

Hardware retail is the stress test for inventory software: thousands of low-value SKUs, fractional units, seasonal demand, and customers who need an answer at the counter, not after a stockroom search.

Odoo inventory and POS with barcode workflows throughout, Sunmi terminals with MauCAS QR at the till, automated reordering rules per supplier lead time, and our own FastAPI middleware for alerts and reporting.

Counter staff answer stock questions from the till in seconds. Reorder suggestions run nightly against real sales velocity. When we demo Odoo, we demo this, live.