Pay by scan changes the question you need answered. When you own the inventory until it rings up at the register, "what did I ship?" stops being interesting. What matters is what sold, where, and how fast — and whether the payment you received matches it.
Sell-through you can actually see
GrowerLive captures scan data by store and by SKU and keeps the history, so sell-through is something you look up rather than something you request. Recent scan history appears on the order screen while an order is being taken, which means the person deciding what to send can see what has been moving at that specific store.
Scans can be compared against what was delivered, so the gap between what went in and what sold is visible per location — the number that tells you whether a program is working or whether you are financing someone else’s shrink.
Invoicing from scans
Because you are billing for sales rather than shipments, invoicing runs off scan data. GrowerLive handles that directly, alongside conventional order-based invoicing, so operations running both models do not need two systems or a spreadsheet in between.
Knowing what a store can hold
Store capacity can be tracked in square feet, with stocking percentages showing how full a location currently is. Combined with sell-through, that is the difference between replenishing on a schedule and replenishing on evidence.
EDI — the part that makes it work quietly
Programs like this run on electronic data interchange, and GrowerLive handles it natively rather than through a separate translation product:
- EDI 850 — purchase orders arriving from your retail partners
- EDI 820 — payment and remittance advice coming back
- EDI 812 — credit and debit adjustments
Documents are parsed inbound, generated outbound, and kept with full audit trails. Correction handling is available for the times a partner sends something that needs fixing. The point is that scan and payment data arrives in the system on its own, instead of arriving as an attachment somebody has to key in on a Friday afternoon.